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The Prose Works of John Milton: With a Life of the Author - Page 325
by John Milton, Charles Symmons - 1806
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History of Congress, biographical and political, Volume 1

Henry G. Wheeler - 1848 - 692 pages
...yet in, store for it. Well did John Milton exclaim, in his noble defense of unlicensed printing, ' Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely, above all liberties ;' for, in securing that, we secure the all-sufficient instrument for achieving...
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The Christian Observatory, Volume 3

1849 - 606 pages
...enfranchised, enlarged, and lifted up our apprehensions, degrees above themselves." Therefore, he says, " give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely, according to conscience, which is above all liberties." From this liberty of inquiry, so visibly inscribed on the...
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Sinfulness of American Slavery: Proved from Its Evil Sources; Its ..., Volume 2

Charles Elliott - 1850 - 392 pages
...human free." " In all things that have beauty, there is nothing to man more comely than liberty. " Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely, above sll liberties." WITNESSES. ALEXANDER POPE. " Some safer world in depths of wood embraced, Some...
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The Fugitive Slave Bill: Its History and Unconstitutionality : with an ...

American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society - 1850 - 68 pages
...Fellow-citizens, — In all things that have beauty, there is nothing to man more comely than liberty. Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely, above all liberties. (Cheers.) A more important subject than this never, in the history of this country,...
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The United States Magazine and Democratic Review, Volume 22

1848 - 614 pages
...and the measures of Pope Pius IX. will be followed by every civilized nation. FREEDOM OF OPINION. " Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely, according to conscience, above all liberties."— Milton. THERE is a principle lying at the very foundation of republican...
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The Grammar of English Grammars

1851 - 1082 pages
...yourselves, and them that were entering in ye hindered." — Luke, xi, 5*2. "Above all other liberties, give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely, according to my conscience." — Milton. " Eloquence is tobe looked for only in free states. Longînus illustrates...
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Celebrated Speeches of Chatham, Burke, and Erskine to which is Added, the ...

1851 - 560 pages
...search and expectation of greatest and exactest things, is the issue of our own virtue propagated in us. Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties." But now every man is to be cried down for such opinions. 1 observed...
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Orations to the Oratorians, a suppl. to dr. Newman's lectures on ...

Brewin Grant - 1851 - 124 pages
...of this fraternity, ignorantly or falsely called a church. " Give me," says the immortal Milton, " the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely, according to conscience, above all other liberty;" but this liberty to know is denied, men are terrified by the...
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The English republic, ed. by W.J. Linton, Volume 1

William James Linton - 1851 - 806 pages
...organize and so best use their powers, but endeavouring to win a majority to my faith. Give me but ' the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience,' and all shall be well with me, and with those others abo. For at worst their earnestness...
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The Midland magazine and monthly review, ed. by J.J. Britton & J.N. Smith ...

Midland-metropolitan magazine - 1852 - 676 pages
...be, about the justice and truth of the cause he advocates. Did we feel as Milton felt, when he said ' Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties,' we should hear little talk about toleration, at best but a poor negative...
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