 | Thomas N. Corns - History - 1987 - 192 pages
...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 in...Church and Commonwealth, to have a vigilant eye how Bookes demeane themselves, as well as men; and thereafter to confine, imprison, and do sharpest justice... | |
 | Thomas L. Pangle - Political Science - 1993 - 244 pages
...having the opportunity to judge, and advocating the censorship that follows upon considered judgment. I deny not but that it is of greatest concernment in...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... | |
 | Francis Barker - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 276 pages
...dangerous criminality and a potential for militant, transgressive if not actually rebellious, violence: I deny not, but that it is of greatest concernment in...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... | |
 | Robert Martin, Gordon Stuart Adam - Law - 1994 - 900 pages
...after publication to material which was seditious or blasphemous. He said, for example, that he denied not "but that it is of greatest concernment in the...confine, imprison, and do sharpest justice on them as malefactors."8 And drawing on his classical scholarship to illustrate his ideas, he observed that in... | |
 | Nicholas Hudson - History - 1994 - 250 pages
...printing, Areopagitica (1644), which alludes to the legend of Cadmus. 'I deny not', acknowledged Milton, 'but that it is of greatest concernment in the Church and Commonwealth to have a vigilant eye how Bookes demeane themselves as well as men ... I know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive,... | |
 | Arts - 1988 - 140 pages
...also insist on the following: "I mean not tolerated Popery, and open superstition ...." (II, 565), and "....it is of greatest concernment in the church and commonwealth, to have a vigilent eye how Bookes demeane themselves; and thereafter to confine, imprison and do sharpest justice... | |
 | Lana Cable - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1995 - 252 pages
...is of greatest concernment in the Church and Commonwealth, to have a vigilant eye how Bookes demeane themselves, as well as men; and thereafter to confine,...malefactors: For Books are not absolutely dead things, but doe contain a potensie of life in them to be as active as that soule was whose progeny they are ; nay... | |
 | Paul M. Dowling - Literary Collections - 1995 - 160 pages
...begin that way. The detour initially responds to the objection that Milton opposes all censorship: "I deny not, but that it is of greatest concernment in...have a vigilant eye how Books demean themselves." From this response sprouts a discussion of books and mortality. There are three parts in syllogistic... | |
 | Linda Bannister, Ellen Davis Conner, Robert Liftig, Luann Reed-Siegel - Study Aids - 1994 - 270 pages
...beginning of the second paragraph, "it is of the greatest concernment in the church and com monwealth to have a vigilant eye how books demean themselves, as well as men; and thereafter to confine. . .and do sharpest justice on them as malefactors" (lines 12-15). He is not (A) ".. .against it in... | |
 | Harold M. Weber - History - 1996 - 310 pages
...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 in...imprison, and do sharpest justice on them as malefactors" (720). This sentence introduces Milton's insistence that books are "not absolutely dead things," and... | |
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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. 
