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" Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, many opinions; for opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making. "
The Prose Works of John Milton - Page 186
by John Milton - 1845
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Milton and the Drama of History: Historical Vision, Iconoclasm, and the ...

David Loewenstein - History - 1990 - 216 pages
...progress: "Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, many opinions; for opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making" (n, 554). Milton's emphasis here is clearly upon "knowledge in the making," upon process rather than...
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Leading the Team Organization: How to Create an Enduring Competitive Advantage

Dean Tjosvold, Mary M. Tjosvold - Business & Economics - 1991 - 236 pages
...Penney Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, many opinions; for opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making. — John Milton, Doctrine and Discipline Lance and Calvin, though not firm allies and often on opposite...
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Reading Between the Lines

Annabel M. Patterson, Professor Annabel Patterson - Authors and readers - 1993 - 358 pages
...(2:550). "Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, many opinions; for opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making" (2:554). Couples, Canons, and the Uncouth. Spenser-and-Milton Coupling Among the processes of canon...
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Hellenistic History and Culture

Peter Green - History - 1993 - 316 pages
...Peter Green Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, many opinions; for opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making. MILTON, AREOPAGITICA (1664) Historians are . . . carried along by the general cultural movements of...
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Polite Wisdom: Heathen Rhetoric in Milton's Areopagitica

Paul M. Dowling - Literary Collections - 1995 - 160 pages
...of all this free writing and free speaking," earlier he said God caused this writing and speaking: "Under these fantastic terrors of sect and schism,...understanding which God hath stirred up in this City" (II, 554; emphasis added). These passages, however, need not be contradictory. Milton may mean that...
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Milton: The life

William Riley Parker - Poets, English - 1996 - 708 pages
...real1ze that 'where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, many opinions; for opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making.' It will grant, moreover, to the good men of England, eager to assist in the great work ahead, 'the...
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The Strength of a People: The Idea of an Informed Citizenry in America, 1650 ...

Richard D. Brown - History - 1996 - 280 pages
...civil war: "Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, many opinions; for opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making."33 He was certain that most Englishmen, even common ones, were good. To be sure, Milton's argument...
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Earn College Credit for what You Know

Lois S. Lamdin - Education - 1997 - 256 pages
...Education Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, many opinions; for opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making. John Milton By now you've thought about why you want to go to school and what you want to study, you've...
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Arenas of Conflict: Milton and the Unfettered Mind

Kristin Pruitt McColgan, Charles W. Durham - Great Britain - 1997 - 304 pages
...Areopagitica, "Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, many opinions; for opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making" (743). According to Wittreich, "Criticism of the highest order unfetters— it does not constrain—the...
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Milton, Authorship, and the Book Trade

Stephen B. Dobranski - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1999 - 276 pages
...before him" (C4r/532). To arrive at truth, "there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, many opinions; for opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making" (E1r/554). More specifically, according to Milton's narrative of Areopagitica's origin, his "speech"...
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