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Geschichte der Poesie und Beredsamkeit seit dem Ende des dreizehnten ...

Friedrich Bouterwek - 1809 - 506 pages
...<шф feitbcm über $rcßfrcil)iMt «tf'diricben iüorDcn. . . I deny not, but that it is of grcateft concernment in the church and commonwealth , to have a ' vigilant eye how books demean themfelves at well as men, and thereafter to confine, imprifon, and do fharped jufticc on them as malefaâors:...
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Geschichte der Poesie und Beredsamkeit seit dem Ende des dreizehnten ...

Friedrich Bouterwek - 1809 - 500 pages
...feitbent ñbcr ^re^frei^cit (jefcítrieben roorbcn. I deny not, but that it is of grcateft concern. ment in the church and commonwealth , to have a vigilant eye how books demean themfelves ai well a« men, and thereafter to confine ,. imprifon, and do iliarpeft jnftice on them...
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The Life of John Milton

Charles Symmons - 1810 - 690 pages
...unlimited freedom of discussion. " d I deny not," says the eloquent pleader, " but that it is of great concernment in the church and commonwealth to have...malefactors: for books are not absolutely dead things, but do cond P. wi 289. tain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was, whose progeny they...
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The Life of John Milton

Charles Symmons - 1810 - 684 pages
...unlimited freedom of discussion. " d I deny not," says the eloquent pleader, " but that it is of great concernment in the church and commonwealth to have a vigilant eye how books domean themselves as well as men, and thereafter to confine, imprison, and do sharpest justice on them...
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An Account of Ireland, Statistical and Political, Volume 2

Wakefield, Edward - 1812 - 954 pages
...catalogue." » " I deny not, but that it is of the greatest concernment in thechurch and eomnwn-wealth, to have a vigilant eye, how books demean themselves...whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a viol, the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. I know they are as...
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The Parliamentary History of England, from the Earliest Period to the Year ...

William Cobbett - 1817 - 800 pages
...execute sharp justice upon them as malefactors ; for books are not absolutely dead things, but they have a potency of life in them, to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are ; nay, they contain, as in a vial, the purest extract and efficacy of that intellect which bred them. They are...
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Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 81

1857 - 878 pages
...thus contain. To apply once more the words of Milton to our subject, there will be found "a progeny of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are ; nay, they will preserve, as in a vial, the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred...
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Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 3

1818 - 762 pages
...not absolutely dead things, but doe contain a potencie of life in them, to be as active as that soule was, whose progeny they are ; nay, they do preserve, as in a violl, the purest efficacie and extraction of the living intellect that bred them." In the cose of...
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Areopagitica: A Speech to the Parliament of England, for the Liberty of ...

John Milton - 1819 - 484 pages
...is of greatest concernment in the Church and Commonwealth, to have a vigilant eye how Bookes demeane themselves as well as Men ; and thereafter to confine,...malefactors: For Books are not absolutely dead things, but doe contain a potencie of Life in them to be as active as that Soule was whose progeny they are ; nay,...
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Areopagitica: A Speech to the Parliament of England, for the Liberty of ...

John Milton - 1819 - 464 pages
...hindering. and gropping^ the discovery that civill "Wisdome. I deny not, but that it is of greatest concernment in the Church and Commonwealth, to have a vigilant eye how Bookes demeane themselves as well as Men ; and thereafter to confine, imprison, and do sharpest justice...
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