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" I deny not, but that it is of greatest concernment in the Church and Commonwealth, to have a vigilant eye how books demean themselves as well as men; and thereafter to confine, imprison, and do sharpest justice on them as malefactors. "
The Prose Works of John Milton: With a Life of the Author - Page 287
by John Milton, Charles Symmons - 1806
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Select Prose Works, Volume 1

John Milton - 1836 - 448 pages
...and of converting what was intended to be a curb, into a screen and protection from punishment. ment in the church and commonwealth, to have a vigilant eye how books demean themselves, as well as men; and thereafter to confine, imprison, and do sharpest justice on them as...
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The New-York Review, Volume 3

1838 - 514 pages
...eloquent speech for the liberty of unlicensed printing, recognizes it to be a matter " of greatest concernment in the church and commonwealth, to have a vigilant eye how books demean themselves as well as men; and thereafter to confine, imprison, and do sharpest justice on them as...
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Selections from the Works of Taylor, Latimer, Hall, Milton, Barrow, South ...

Basil Montagu - 1839 - 404 pages
...civil liberty attained that wise men look for.* LIBELS. I DENY not, but that it is of the greatest concernment in the church and commonwealth, to have a vigilant eye how books demean themselves as well as men ; and thereafter to confine, imprison, and do sharpest justice on them as...
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Tracts for the people, designed to vindicate religious and Christian liberty

Tracts - 1840 - 514 pages
...might be yet further made both in religious and civil wisdom. I deny not but that it is of greatest concernment in the Church and Commonwealth, to have a vigilant eye how books demean themselves as well as men ; and thereafter to confine, imprison and do sharpest justice on them as...
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The Methodist Quarterly Review, Volume 18; Volume 40

1858 - 690 pages
...phenomena ever present around us." Pp. 96-97. AET. XII.— QUARTERLY BOOK-TABLE. IT is of greatest concernment in the Church and Commonwealth to have a vigilant eye how books demean themselves as well as men, and thereafter to confine, imprison, and do sharpest justice on them as...
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The poetical works of John Milton, with a memoir by J. Montgomery, Volume 1

John Milton - 1843 - 444 pages
...the marvellous excellence here ascribed to that treatise : " I deny not but that it is of greatest concernment in the church and commonwealth, to have a vigilant eye how books demean themselves, as well as men; and thereafter to confine in prison, and do sharpest justice on them as...
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Class Book of Prose: Consisting of Selections from Distinguished English and ...

John Seely Hart - 1845 - 404 pages
...Parliament in behalf of the Liberty of the Press. I deny not but that it is of the greatest concernment to the church and commonwealth, to have a vigilant eye how books demean themselves as well as men ; and thereafter to confine, imprison, and do sharpest justice on them as...
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The History of the Church of England in the Colonies and Foreign ..., Volume 2

James Stuart Murray Anderson - 1848 - 796 pages
...foremost champion in that age for the liberty of unlicensed printing, admits ' that it is of greatest concernment in the Church and Commonwealth, to have a vigilant eye how Books demean themselves as well as Men ; and thereafter to confine, imprison, and do sharpest justice to them as...
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The Prose Works of John Milton, Volume 2

John Milton - 1848 - 566 pages
...might be yet further made, both in religious and civil wisdom. I deny not, but that it is of greatest concernment in the church and commonwealth, to have a vigilant eye how books demean themselves, as well as men ; and thereafter to confine, imprison, and do sharpest justice on them as...
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The Friend, Conducted by S.T. Coleridge, No, Volume 1

Henry Nelson Coleridge - 1850 - 304 pages
...to them, and faid that by the foul Only the nations ihall be great and free ! WORDSWORTH. ESSAY X. I deny not but that it is of greateft concernment...men ; and thereafter to confine, imprifon, and do marpeft juftice on them as malefaftors. For books are not abfolutely dead things, but do contain a...
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