 | John Durham Peters - 2010 - 318 Seiten
..."good books"; "scandalous, seditious, and libellous books" can happily rot as far as he is concerned: "it is of greatest concernment in the Church and Commonwealth,...imprison, and do sharpest justice on them as malefactors" (720). Tolerant waiting does not mean "tolerated Popery, and open superstition, which as it extirpates... | |
 | Frans H. Van Eemeren, Peter Houtlosser - 2005 - 390 Seiten
...plays a fundamental argumentative role, and, at the same time, is subject to a subtle semantic shift: I deny not, but that it is of greatest concernment...the Church and Commonwealth, to have a vigilant eye on how books demean themselves as well as men; and thereafter to confine, imprison, and do sharpest... | |
 | Diane Ravitch, Michael Ravitch - 2006 - 512 Seiten
...reign in Hell than serve in Heaven. FROM Areopagitica: A Speech for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing I deny not, but that it is of greatest concernment...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... | |
 | Freeman Dyson - 2006 - 396 Seiten
...value for our own times, if the word "books" is replaced by the word "experiments." Here is Milton: I deny not, but that it is of greatest concernment...imprison, and do sharpest justice on them as malefactors I know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous dragon's teeth; and being... | |
 | John McCormick, Mairi MacInnes - 2006 - 400 Seiten
...hindring and cropping the discovery that might bee yet further made both in religious and civill Wisdome. I deny not, but that it is of greatest concernment...Church and Commonwealth, to have a vigilant eye how Bookes demesne themselves as well as men; and thereafter to confine, imprison, and do sharpest justice... | |
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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. 
