Of Education: Areopagitica; The CommonwealthHoughton Mifflin, 1911 - 205 páginas |
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Æneid Anno Domini Areopagitica Aristotle army better bishops called cause Charles chief chosen Christ's College Christian church Cicero civil Comenius common commonwealth Comus conscience Council court Covenant Defensio discourse divine doctrine elected England English Epicurus Episcopacy evil faith famous father fear free commonwealth friends Greek Hartlib hath heresy History honor Isocrates John John Milton judgment justice king King's kingship knowledge Latin learning libels liberty licensing lived Lond London Lords Lucretius Lycurgus Masson matters ment Milton nation never noble opinion pamphlet Paradise Lost Parlia Parliament peace person Plato Plutarch poems poet prelates Presbyterian printed prose published reason reformation religion Roman Rome Salmasius schisms senate sent Smectymnuus soon Star Chamber things thought tion treatise truth verses virtue wherein whereof whole word writ writing written wrote
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Página 40 - ... books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect, that! bred them.
Página 118 - Truth, than there be pens and heads there, sitting by their studious lamps, musing, searching, revolving new notions and ideas wherewith to present, as with their homage and their fealty, the approaching Reformation: others as fast reading, trying all things, assenting to the force of reason and convincement.
Página 120 - ... as if, while the temple of the Lord was building, some cutting, some squaring the marble, others hewing the cedars, there should be a sort of irrational men who could not consider there must be many schisms and many dissections made in the quarry and in the timber, ere the house of God can be built.
Página 118 - 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.
Página 125 - ... and enlightened our spirits like the influence of heaven; this is that which hath enfranchised, enlarged and lifted up our apprehensions degrees above themselves.
Página 39 - I deny not, but that it is of greatest concernment in the Church and Commonwealth, to have a vigilant eye how books demean themselves as well as men; and thereafter to confine, imprison, and do sharpest justice on them as malefactors.
Página 7 - I call therefore a complete and generous education that which fits a man to perform justly, skillfully, and magnanimously all the offices both private and public of peace and war.
Página 3 - And though a linguist should pride himself to have all the tongues that Babel cleft the world into, yet if he have not studied the solid things in them as well as the words and lexicons, he were nothing so much to be esteemed a learned man, as any yeoman or tradesman competently wise in his mother dialect only.
Página 112 - Osiris, took the virgin Truth, hewed her lovely form into a thousand pieces, and scattered them to the four winds. From that time ever since, the sad friends of Truth, such as durst appear, imitating the careful search that Isis made for the mangled body of Osiris, went up and down gathering up limb by limb still as they could find them.
Página 3 - But because our understanding cannot in this body found itself- but on sensible things, nor arrive so clearly to the knowledge of God and things invisible, as by orderly conning over the visible and inferior creature, the same method is necessarily to be followed in all discreet teaching.