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" Areopagitica, in order to deliver the press from the restraints with which it was encumbered; that the power of determining what was true and what was false, what ought to be published and what to be suppressed, might no longer be entrusted to a few illiterate... "
The Prose Works of John Milton: With a Life of the Author - Page 404
by John Milton, Charles Symmons - 1806
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Studies in the History of Venice, Volume 2

Horatio Forbes Brown - 1907 - 366 pages
..." I wrote my Areopagitica," he says, "in order to deliver the press from the restraints with which it was encumbered, that the power of determining what was true and what was false, what ought to be published and what suppressed, might no longer be entrusted to a few illiterate...
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Milton Memorial Lectures, 1908: Read Before the Royal Society of Literature

Royal Society of Literature (Great Britain) - 1909 - 254 pages
..." Lastly, I wrote my ' Areopagitica ' in order to deliver the press from the restraints with which it was encumbered ; that the power of determining what was • true and what was false, what ought to be published and what suppressed, might no longer be entrusted to a few illiterate...
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The Cambridge History of English Literature: The period of the French Revolution

Sir Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller - 1914 - 552 pages
...remonstrance, which, he says, he wrote in order to deliver the press from the restraints with which it was encumbered; that the power of determining what was true and what was false, what ought to be published and what to be suppressed, might no longer be entrusted to a few...
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The Cambridge History of English Literature: The period of the French revolution

Sir Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller - 1914 - 606 pages
...remonstrance, which, he says, he wrote in order to deliver the press from the restraints with which it was encumbered ; that the power of determining what was true and what was false, what ought to be published and what to be suppressed, might no longer be entrusted to a few...
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A Book of English Literature, Volume 2

Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - 1916 - 530 pages
...said Milton in his Defensio Secunda, " in order to deliver the press from the restraints with which it was encumbered; that the power of determining what was true and what was false, what ought to be published and what .to be suppressed, might no longer be entrusted to a few...
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Political Organization of the Plains Indians: With Special ..., Volumes 24-25

Maurice Greer Smith - 1925 - 916 pages
...renown. Lastly, I wrote my Areopagitica, in order to deliver the press from the restraints with which it was encumbered ; that the power of determining what was true and what was false, what ought to be published and what to be suppressed, might no longer be entrusted to a few...
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Literature for the Business Man

Gerald Edwin Se Boyar - 1925 - 456 pages
...these words, "I wrote my 'Areopagitica' in order to deliver the press from the restraints with which it was encumbered; that the power of determining what was true and what was false, what ought to be published and what suppressed, might no longer be entrusted to a few illiterate...
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The University Studies of the University of Nebraska, Volumes 24-26

University of Nebraska (Lincoln campus) - 1925 - 690 pages
...renown. Lastly, I wrote my Areopagitica, in order to deliver the press from the restraints with which it was encumbered ; that the power of determining what was true and what was false, what ought to be published and what to be suppressed, might no longer be entrusted to a few...
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A Milton Handbook

James Holly Hanford - 1926 - 334 pages
...renown. Lastly, I wrote my "Areopagitica," in order to deliver the press from the restraints with which it was encumbered ; that the power of determining what was true and what was false, what ought to be published and what to be suppressed, might no longer be entrusted to a few...
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Areopagitica and Other Prose Writings by John Milton

John Milton - 1927 - 208 pages
...renown. Lastly, I wrote my Areopagitica, in order to deliver the press from the restraints with which it was encumbered; that the power of determining what was true and what was false, what ought to be published and what to be suppressed, might no longer be entrusted to a few...
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