| John Milton - 1848 - 566 pages
...Although I dispraise not the defence of just immunities, yet love my peace better, if that were all. Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue...freely according to conscience, above all liberties. What would be best advised then, if it be found so hurtful and so unequal to suppress opinions for... | |
| William Wilson - 1848 - 48 pages
...shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in the said territory,** etc.— ORDINANCE OF 1787. "Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely, according to my conscience, above all liberties.-'— MILTON. *» . ..*CINCINNATI: E. SHEPARD'S STEAM PRESS. MDCCCXLVIII.... | |
| Henry G. Wheeler - 1848 - 692 pages
...yet in, store for it. Well did John Milton exclaim, in his noble defense of unlicensed printing, ' Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely, above all liberties ;' for, in securing that, we secure the all-sufficient instrument for achieving... | |
| 1849 - 606 pages
...enfranchised, enlarged, and lifted up our apprehensions, degrees above themselves." Therefore, he says, " give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely, according to conscience, which is above all liberties." From this liberty of inquiry, so visibly inscribed on the portals of... | |
| American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society - 1850 - 68 pages
...Fellow-citizens, — In all things that have beauty, there is nothing to man more comely than liberty. Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely, above all liberties. (Cheers.) A more important subject than this never, in the history of this country,... | |
| 1851 - 560 pages
...now more erected to the search and expectation of greatest and exactest things, is the issue of our own virtue propagated in us. Give me the liberty to...freely according to conscience, above all liberties." But now every man is to be cried down for such opinions. 1 observed that my learned friend significantly... | |
| John Milton - 1851 - 606 pages
...Although I difpraife not the defence of juft immunities, yet love my peace better, if that were all. Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to confcience, above all liberties. ] What would be beftli3vis'd then, if it be found fo hurtfull and... | |
| William James Linton - 1851 - 806 pages
...organize and so best use their powers, but endeavouring to win a majority to my faith. Give me but ' the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience,' and all shall be well with me, and with those others abo. For at worst their earnestness will bring... | |
| Midland-metropolitan magazine - 1852 - 676 pages
...be, about the justice and truth of the cause he advocates. Did we feel as Milton felt, when he said ' Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue...freely according to conscience, above all liberties,' we should hear little talk about toleration, at best but a poor negative virtue, a:id un ivorl.hy alike... | |
| Charles Sumner - 1852 - 90 pages
...as on every other subject, I claim the right to be heard. That right I cannot, I will not abandon. " Give me the liberty to know, to utter and to argue freely, above all liberties ; " these are the glowing words which flashed from the soul of John Milton, in... | |
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