Areopagitica: 24 November 1644E. Arber, 1868 - 80 pages |
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... themselves as well as men ; and ' thereafter to confine , imprison , and do fharpest justice on them as malefactors : For Books are not abfolutely dead things , but doe contain a potencie of life in them to be as active as that foule ...
... themselves as well as men ; and ' thereafter to confine , imprison , and do fharpest justice on them as malefactors : For Books are not abfolutely dead things , but doe contain a potencie of life in them to be as active as that foule ...
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... themselves were forbid to read the Books of Gentiles , but Herefies they might read : while others long before them on the contrary fcrupl'd more the Books of Hereticks , then of Gentiles . And that the primitive Councels and Bishops ...
... themselves were forbid to read the Books of Gentiles , but Herefies they might read : while others long before them on the contrary fcrupl'd more the Books of Hereticks , then of Gentiles . And that the primitive Councels and Bishops ...
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... themselves be confided in , unleffe we can conferr upon them , or they affume to themselves above all others in the Land , the grace of infallibility , and un- corruptedneffe ? And again if it be true , that a wise man like a good ...
... themselves be confided in , unleffe we can conferr upon them , or they affume to themselves above all others in the Land , the grace of infallibility , and un- corruptedneffe ? And again if it be true , that a wise man like a good ...
Page 55
... themselves weli ridd of it , and that no man of worth , none that is not a plain unthrift of his own hours is ever likely to fucceed them , except he mean to put himself to the falary of a Preffe - corrector , we may easily foresee what ...
... themselves weli ridd of it , and that no man of worth , none that is not a plain unthrift of his own hours is ever likely to fucceed them , except he mean to put himself to the falary of a Preffe - corrector , we may easily foresee what ...
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... by this cours of licencing towards the true knowledge of what we seem to know . For how much it hurts and hinders the licencers themselves in the calling of their Min- E iftery , more then any fecular employment , if they AREOPAGITICA . 65.
... by this cours of licencing towards the true knowledge of what we seem to know . For how much it hurts and hinders the licencers themselves in the calling of their Min- E iftery , more then any fecular employment , if they AREOPAGITICA . 65.
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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.