Areopagitica: 24 November 1644E. Arber, 1868 - 80 pages |
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aforefaid againſt alſo Apprentices AREOPAGITICA BARNABE GOOGE becauſe beſt Biſhop of London booke or bookes cauſes ſhall require CHIG Chriſtian Church Commiſsion Court refpectiuely Company of Stationers Court doth Decree edition EDWARD ARBER elſe England English Reprints euery faid Company fame fearch felf felves feuerall cauſes ſhall fhall fhall thinke firſt fome fuch Books fuch further fuffer fuppreffing greateſt hath haue high Commiſsion Court himſelf houſe HUGH LATIMER imployed Item John Milton learning leaſt Letters liberty licencing Lord Biſhop Lords and Commons Maſter and Wardens Maſter Printer MICHIS Milton moſt muſt Octavo Order otherwiſe Pamphlets Paston Letters perfon or perfons praiſe prefent Preffe printed publiſh puniſhment purpoſe reaſon Richard Eden RSITY ſaid ſelf ſhall be thought Shilling ſhould SITY ſome ſpeak ſuch themſelves thereof theſe things thofe thoſe thought fit Truth Uncut Edges unleffe uſe vertue vpon paine vſe whatſoeuer wiſdom writt'n
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Page 5 - Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.
Page 45 - He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true warfaring Christian.
Page 74 - ... and defeated all objections in his way, calls out his adversary into the plain, offers him the advantage of wind and sun, if he please, only that he may try the matter by dint of argument...
Page 35 - And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book. Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye. Many a man lives a burden to the earth; but a good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.
Page 70 - And when every stone is laid artfully together, it cannot be united into a continuity, it can but be contiguous in this world...
Page 67 - They are the troublers, they are the dividers of unity, who neglect and permit not others to unite those dissevered pieces which are yet wanting to the body of Truth.
Page 67 - It is not the unfrocking of a priest, the unmitring of a bishop, and the removing him from off the presbyterian shoulders, that will make us a happy nation: no; if other things as great in the church, and in the rule of life both...
Page 49 - Plato, a man of high authority indeed, but least of all for his Commonwealth, in the book of his laws...
Page 69 - I doubt not, if some great and worthy stranger should come among us, wise to discern the mould and temper of a people, and how to govern it, observing the high hopes and aims, the diligent alacrity of our extended thoughts and reasonings in the pursuance of truth and freedom, but that he would cry out as...
Page 35 - Dragon's teeth; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book: Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye.