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" Nor is it to the common people less than a reproach; for if we be so jealous over them, as that we dare not trust them with an English pamphlet, what do we but censure them for a giddy, vicious, and ungrounded people; in such a sick and weak estate of... "
The Prose Works of John Milton: With a Life of the Author - Page 300
by John Milton, Charles Symmons - 1806
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Essays on Economics and Economists

R. H. Coase - 1994 - 234 pages
...for a giddy, vicious, and ungrounded people, in such a sick and weak state of faith and discretion, as to be able to take nothing down but through the pipe of a licenser. li) In the market for ideas, the right choices are made: "Let [truth] and falsehood grapple;...
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Paper Bullets: Print and Kingship Under Charles II

Harold M. Weber - 1996 - 310 pages
...for a giddy, vicious, and ungrounded people, in such a sick and weak estate of faith and discretion, as to be able to take nothing down but through the pipe of a licenser" (737). Milton specifically rejects here the characterization of "the common people" familiar...
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The Major Works

John Milton - 2003 - 1012 pages
...estate of faith and discretion as to be able to take norhing down but through the pipe of a licenser? That this is care or love of them we cannot pretend, whenas in those Popish places where the laity are most hated and despised, the same stricmess is used over them....
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Areopagitica: A Speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenced ...

John Milton - 2005 - 248 pages
...pamphlet, what doe we but cenfure them for a giddy, vitious, and ungrounded people ; in fuch a Tick and weak eftate of faith and difcretion, as to be...able to take nothing down but through the pipe of a licencer. That this is care or love of them, we cannot pretend, whenas in thofe Popifh places where...
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Versions of Censorship

John McCormick, Mairi MacInnes - 2006 - 400 pages
...for a giddy, vitious, and ungrounded people; in such a sick and weak estate of faith and discretion, as to be able to take nothing down but through the pipe of a licencer. That this is care or love of them, we cannot pretend, whenas in those Popish places where...
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Women and the Pamphlet Culture of Revolutionary England, 1640-1660

Marcus Nevitt - 2006 - 244 pages
...for a giddy, vitious, and ungrounded people; in such a sick and weak estate of faith and discretion as to be able to take nothing down but through the pipe of a licenser. More recent readers have shed light on the ways in which these short, unbound books were...
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Areopagitica

John Milton - 2006 - 78 pages
...state of faith and discretion, as to be able to take nothing down but through the pipe of a licenser? That this is care or love of them, we cannot pretend, whenas in those popish places, where the laity are most hated and despised, the same strictness is used over...
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Protestant Nonconformist Texts: 1550 to 1700

Robert Tudur Jones, Kenneth Dix, Alan Ruston - 2006 - 448 pages
...for a giddy, vitious, and ungrounded people; in such a sick and weak state of faith and discretion, as to be able to take nothing down but through the pipe of a licencer. That this is care or love of them, we cannot pretend, whenas, in those Popish places where...
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Areopagitica

John Milton - 1942 - 180 pages
...for a giddy, vicious, and ungrounded people ; in such a sick and weak state of faith and discretion, as to be able to take nothing down but through the pipe of a licenser? That this is care or love of them, we cannot pretend, whenas in those popish places where...
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