 | Harold M. Weber - 1996 - 310 Seiten
...book, however, goes hand in hand with an appreciation of the responsibility books must therefore bear: "I deny not but that it is of greatest concernment...imprison, and do sharpest justice on them as malefactors" (720). This sentence introduces Milton's insistence that books are "not absolutely dead things," and... | |
 | Jeffrey Masten, Peter Stallybrass, Nancy J. Vickers - 1997 - 292 Seiten
...RE-PRESSED ... it is of greatest toncernment ... to have a vigilant eye how Bookes demeane themtelves as well as men; and thereafter to confine, imprison, and do sharpest justice on them as malefatton: For Books are not absolutely dead things, but doe contain a potende of life in them to... | |
 | Jeffrey Masten, Peter Stallybrass, Nancy J. Vickers - 1997 - 292 Seiten
...how Bookes demeane themtelves as well as men; and thereafter to confine, imprison, and do tharpest justice on them as malefactors: For Books are not absolutely dead things, but due contain a potencle of life in them to be as active as that soule was whote progeny they are; nay... | |
 | Dennis Freeborn - 1998 - 502 Seiten
...fyftabftt at lead one of fuch as fhaU be thereto appointed. » . . I deny not, but that it is of greateft concernment in the Church and Commonwealth , to have a vigilant eye how Bookes demeane themfclves.as well as menjand thereafter to confine,imprifon,and do Qurpeft juftice... | |
 | Dennis Danielson - 1999 - 320 Seiten
...Milton has no quarrel with the proposition that the state should 'have a vigilant eye how Bookes demeane themselves, as well as men; and thereafter to confine,...imprison, and do sharpest justice on them as malefactors' (YP 1: 491, 494, 531, 560, 569). Milton, however, posits an exchange in which a stationer is asked... | |
 | Lisa Rosner, John Theibault - 2000 - 478 Seiten
...pamphlet, Areopagitica, which became one of the classic defenses of a free press. "I deny not," he wrote, "but that it is of greatest concernment in the Church...vigilant eye how Books demean themselves, as well as men. . . . For Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active... | |
 | Dennis Kezar Assistant Professor of English Vanderbilt University - 2001 - 282 Seiten
...kill people; people kill people), however, Milton concedes the logic of censorship as gun control: 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... | |
 | Kate Aughterson - 2002 - 628 Seiten
...cropping the discovery that might he yet further made, hoth in religious and civil wisdom. I deny not hut that it is of greatest concernment in the Church and Commonwealth to have a vigilam eye how hooks demean themselves as well as men; and thereafter to confine, imprison and do... | |
 | Jennifer Andersen, Elizabeth Sauer - 2002 - 320 Seiten
...state was justified in 1ts concern about what its citizens were reading: "I deny not, but that it 1s of greatest concernment in the Church and Commonwealth, to have a vigilant eye how Bookes demeane themselves, as well as men. . . . For Books are not absolutely dead things, but doe... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 2001 - 552 Seiten
...to them, and said that by the soul Only the nations shall be great and free ! WORDSWORTH. ESSAY X. I deny not but that it is of greatest concernment in the church and coin' monwealth to have a vigilant eye how books demean themselves as well as men ; and thereafter... | |
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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. 
