Milton's Areopagitica: a speech, with notes, by T.G. Osborn1873 |
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... perswade him to pronounce the textuall Chetiv . For these causes we all know the Bible itselfe put by the Papist into the first rank of prohibited Books . The ancientest Fathers must next be remov'd , as Clement of Alexandria , and that ...
... perswade him to pronounce the textuall Chetiv . For these causes we all know the Bible itselfe put by the Papist into the first rank of prohibited Books . The ancientest Fathers must next be remov'd , as Clement of Alexandria , and that ...
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... perswade ye , Lords and Commons , that these arguments of lerned mens discouragement at this your Order are meer ... perswaded of her Liberty . Yet was it beyond my hope that those Worthies were then breath- ing in her air , who should ...
... perswade ye , Lords and Commons , that these arguments of lerned mens discouragement at this your Order are meer ... perswaded of her Liberty . Yet was it beyond my hope that those Worthies were then breath- ing in her air , who should ...
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... perswade me . First , when a City shall be as it were besieg'd and blockt about , her navigable river infested , inrodes and incursions round , defiance and battell oft rumor'd to be marching ev'n to her walls and suburb trenches , that ...
... perswade me . First , when a City shall be as it were besieg'd and blockt about , her navigable river infested , inrodes and incursions round , defiance and battell oft rumor'd to be marching ev'n to her walls and suburb trenches , that ...
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... perswade and execute the most Dominican part of the Inquisition over us , and are already with one foot in the stirrup so active at suppressing ; it would be no unequall distribution in the first place to suppresse the suppressors ...
... perswade and execute the most Dominican part of the Inquisition over us , and are already with one foot in the stirrup so active at suppressing ; it would be no unequall distribution in the first place to suppresse the suppressors ...
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Page 55 - Lords and Commons of England, consider what nation it is whereof ye are and whereof ye are the governors : a nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit, acute to invent, subtle and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point the highest that human capacity can soar to.
Page 17 - ... the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. I know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous dragons' teeth ; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men.
Page 56 - God is decreeing to begin some new and great period in his Church, even to the reforming of Reformation itself. What does he then but reveal Himself to his servants, and as his manner is, first to his Englishmen...
Page 59 - Methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam ; purging and unsealing her long abused sight at the fountain itself of heavenly radiance, while the whole noise of timorous and flocking birds, with those also that love the twilight, flutter about, amazed at what she means, and in their envious gabble would prognosticate a year of sects and schisms.
Page 17 - And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book : who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image ; but he who destroys a good book kills reason itself — kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye.
Page 3 - It is to be regretted that the prose writings of Milton should, in our time, be so little read. As compositions, they deserve the attention of every man who wishes to become acquainted with the full power of the English language. They abound with passages compared with which the finest declamations of Burke sink into insignificance. They are a perfect field of cloth of gold. The style is stiff with gorgeous embroidery. Not even in the earlier books of the
Page 30 - That virtue therefore which is but a youngling in the contemplation of evil, and knows not the utmost that vice promises to her followers, and rejects it, is but a blank virtue, not a pure...
Page 18 - It is true no age can restore a life, whereof perhaps there is no great loss; and revolutions of ages do not oft recover the loss of a rejected truth, for the want of which whole nations fare the worse.
Page 61 - And though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so Truth be in the field, we do injuriously, by licensing and prohibiting, to misdoubt her strength. Let her and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse, in a free and open encounter? Her confuting is the best and surest suppressing.
Page 29 - I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and f heat.