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" I mean not tolerated popery, and open superstition, which, as it extirpates all religious and civil supremacies, so itself should be extirpate; provided first that all charitable and compassionate means be used to win and regain the weak and the misled.... "
Papers on Toleration - Page 63
by Christopher Wyvill - 1810 - 179 pages
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The Nature of Democracy, Freedom, and Revolution

Herbert Aptheker - History - 1975 - 136 pages
...wholesome, more prudent, and more Christian: that many may be tolerated rather than all compelled. I mean not tolerated Popery and open superstition which as it extirpates all religions and civil supremacies, so itself should be extirpated, provided first that all charitable...
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There's No Such Thing As Free Speech: And It's a Good Thing, Too

Stanley Fish - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 345 pages
...John Milton catches himself up short and says, of course I didn't mean Catholics, them we exterminate: I mean not tolerated popery, and open superstition,...religious and civil supremacies, so itself should be extirpate . . . that also which is impious or evil absolutely against faith or manners no law can possibly...
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The War Lover: A Study of Plato's Republic

Leon Harold Craig - Literary Criticism - 1996 - 482 pages
...more wholesome, more prudent, and more Christian: that many be tolerated rather than all compelled. I mean not tolerated popery and open superstition, which as it extirpates all religions and civil supremacies, so itself should be extirpate, provided first that all charitable...
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Polite Wisdom: Heathen Rhetoric in Milton's Areopagitica

Paul M. Dowling - Literary Collections - 1995 - 160 pages
...more wholesome, more prudent, and more Christian that many be tolerated, rather then all compelled. I mean not tolerated Popery, and open superstition, which as it extirpates all religions and civil supremacies, so itself should be extirpate, provided first that all charitable...
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Conflicts of Empires: Spain, the Low Countries and the Struggle for World ...

Jonathan Israel - History - 1997 - 456 pages
...toleration.56 Even Milton, in advocating that 'many be tolerated, rather than all compelled', added that 'I mean not tolerated popery, and open superstition,...religious and civil supremacies, so itself should be extirpate'.57 52 John Milton, Arenpngilira [1644] (ed. KM Lea, London, 1973), p. 33. 53 Ibitl., pp....
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Milton and Religious Controversy: Satire and Polemic in Paradise Lost

John N. King - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 262 pages
...for freedom of the press, excludes Catholics from Milton's appeal for relaxation of prior censorship: "I mean not tolerated popery and open superstition, which, as it extirpates all religions and civil supremacies, so itself should be extirpate."16 Affording a turbulent context for...
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The American Theory of Church and State

Loren P. Beth - Church and state - 2002 - 192 pages
...And Milton's Puritanism forced him to restrict liberty to (at most) only Protestants. He continued: "I mean not tolerated popery, and open superstition,...religious and civil supremacies, so itself should be extirpate, provided first that all charitable and THE AMERICAN THEORY OF CHURCH AND STATE did attack...
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Propaganda and the Ethics of Persuasion

Randal Marlin - Philosophy - 2002 - 334 pages
...deserves to be quoted in full, since it will otherwise be difficult to believe he actually said it: I mean not tolerated popery and open superstition, which as it extirpates all religions and civil supremacies, so itself should be extirpated, provided first that all charitable...
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The Major Works

John Milton - English literature - 2003 - 1012 pages
...more wholesome, more prudent and more Christian, that many be tolerated rather than all compelled. I mean not tolerated Popery, and open superstition, which as it extirpates all religions and civil supremacies, so itself should be extirpate, provided first that all charitable...
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Civil Peace and the Quest for Truth: The First Amendment Freedoms in ...

Murray Dry - Law - 2004 - 324 pages
...more wholesome, more prudent, and more Christian: that man be tolerated rather than all compelled. 1 mean not tolerated popery and open superstition, which as it extirpates all religions and civil supremacies, so itself should be extirpate, provided first that all charitable...
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