...at Florence, to the renowned Galileo, "a prisoner to the Inquisition," to use Milton's own words, " for thinking in astronomy otherwise than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought." On his return to England, after an absence of fifteen months, he settled in London, and devoted himself...

...freedom, as they supposed England was, while themselves did nothing but bemoan the servile condition into which learning amongst them was brought ; that this...than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought. And though I knew that England then was groaning loudest under the prclatical yoke, nevertheless I...

...freedom, as they supposed England was, while themselves did nothing but bemoan the servile condition into which learning amongst them was brought ; that this...astronomy otherwise than the Franciscan and Dominican licence* sers thought. And though I knew that England then was groanrhg loudest under the prelatical...

...bemoan the servile condition into which learning amongst them was brought ; that this was it which hau Hooka and Skips Compared.]^ If the invention of the...fruits, how much more are letters to be magnified, And though I knew that England then was groaning loudest under the prelatical yoke, nevertheless I...

...as they supposed England was, while themselves did nothing : but bemoan the servile condition into which learning amongst them was brought ; that this...than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought. And though I knew that England then was groaning loudest under the prelatical yoke, nevertheless I...

...this kind of inquisition tyrannizes ; when I have sal among their learned men, for that honour I had. There it was that I found and visited the famous Galileo,...than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought." Areopa,giticn, Hollie'e ed. 1780, p. 810. Milton wae at that time twenty-nine years old.] who hath...

...futuri. This was the house, "where," says Miltou, (another of those of whom the world was not worthy,) " I found and visited the famous Galileo, grown old — a prisoner to the Inquisition, for thinking on astronomy otherwise than as the Dominican and Franciscan licensers thought." (Prose Works, vol....

...freedom as they supposed England was, while themselves did nothing but bemoan the servile condition into which learning amongst them was brought ; that this...than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought. And though I knew that England then was groaning loudest under prelatical yoke, nevertheless I took...

...freedom, as they »upposed England was, while themselves did nothing but bemoan the servile condition into 'd, Confounded, to the dark recess I fly Of wood-hole...(wonderful to tell !) My tongue forgets her faculty And though I knew that England then was groaning loudest under the prelatical yoke, nevertheless I...

...Italy, and Milton, in one of his works, speaking of Italy, thus alludes to the circumstance:—"There it was that I found and visited the famous Galileo,...than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought." Since the time of Galileo, telescopes with a single convex glass have been designated as astronomical...