 | Giles Badger Stebbins - 1872 - 408 pages
...and falsity, than by reading all manner of tractates, and hearing all manner of reason ? # * * •% # Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue...freely according to conscience, above all liberties. * * And though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so truth be in the... | |
 | School board readers - 1872 - 328 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. EDWARD HYDE, EARL OF CLAEENDON: 1608—1674. Adventures of Charles II. after the Battle of Worcester.—... | |
 | Raphael Samuel - 1998 - 434 pages
...would prevail, and each week the Leeds Times carried as its headpiece the quotation from Areopagitica, 'Give me the liberty to know to utter and to argue freely according to conscience above all other liberties'. Smiles identified with Milton in his campaigns against abuse and privilege. The opposition... | |
 | Rollo May - 1999 - 292 pages
...is the Milton who was passionate in his defense of freedom, who wrote the "Areopagitica," who cried "Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all other liberties." This is the Milton who in Italy went to see and to support Galileo, at that time... | |
 | Edward Geoffrey Parrinder, Geoffrey Parrinder - 2000 - 389 pages
...Principles of the Christian Religion, as Professed by the People called the Quakers, XIV (1678) 1 1 Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue...freely according to conscience, above all liberties. John Milton, Areopagitica (1644) 12 Look to your health; and if you have it, praise God, and value... | |
 | John Izod, R. W. Kilborn, Matthew Hibberd - 2000 - 244 pages
...religious expression had to be part of a broader liberty of expression in general. '(T]ne liberty t() know, to utter and to argue freely according to conscience, above all' marks the beginning ot a powerful dissenting (if you will) tradition in our political life (Milton... | |
 | Michael Kent Curtis - 2000 - 544 pages
...fight, clashing opinions as producing truth, the inferiority of "cloistered virtues," and his call for "liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience" — exceeded his limited goal of arguing against licensing.27 In addition to attacking licensing, Levellers... | |
 | Joseph Twadell Shipley - 2001 - 688 pages
...liberty attained that wise men look for"— Milton, Areopagitica (1644), which also contains the words: "Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue...freely, according to conscience, above all liberties." ?plaud: beat the hands. Perhaps an offshoot of the preceding, plaudits, applaud, applause, plosion,... | |
 | Jennifer Andersen, Elizabeth Sauer - 2002 - 320 pages
...liberty, he wrote, and neither its writers nor its readers should be restricted (CPW 2:505, 55s, 554). "Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue...freely according to conscience, above all liberties" (CPW7 2:560). Milton's knowing came through reading, and he was "certain that a wise man will make... | |
 | Roger A. Bruns - 2001 - 372 pages
...their part, the radicals preferred instead to recall the words of Milton in his Areopagitica of 1644: "Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties."15 11. Village Sex A though alive with atheists, cubists, poets, free-thinkers, freelovers,... | |
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Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties. 
