 | Charles Sumner - Slavery - 1871 - 564 pages
...as on every other subject, I claim the right to be heard. That right I cannot, I will not abandon. " Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties " : * these are glowing words, flashed from the soul of John Milton... | |
 | School board readers - 1872 - 328 pages
...for coat and conduct, and his four nobles of Danegelt.* Although I dispraise not the defence of just immunities, yet love my peace better, if that were...to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties. EDWARD HYDE, EARL OF CLAEENDON: 1608—1674. Adventures of Charles... | |
 | R. H. Coase - Biography & Autobiography - 1994 - 234 pages
...no scholarship is needed. As one would expect, Milton asserts the primacy of the market for ideas: "Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties."7 It is different from the market for goods and should not be treated... | |
 | Stephen Innes - Business & Economics - 1995 - 432 pages
...binde conscience." In the Areopagitica, Milton 203 eloquently demanded that Parliament allow Englishmen "the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties." He said that "when God gave man reason, he gave him freedom to choose,... | |
 | Elizabeth Sauer - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1996 - 230 pages
...two. I say this to indicate the tentative nature of my enquiry. TS Eliot, The Three Voices of Poetry Give me the liberty to know, to utter and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties. John Milton, Areopagitica \ THE EVOLUTION OF VOICE This book examines... | |
 | Roger Hadley, Roger Clough - Education - 1998 - 242 pages
...SSD Social Services Department SSW Senior Social Worker STG Special Transitional Grant TL Team Leader Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties. John Milton Areopagitica Introduction We live at a time when the base... | |
 | Carl Jensen, Project Censored - Political Science - 1996 - 354 pages
...man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself. Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties. Though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth,... | |
 | Eugene Chen Eoyang - Social Science - 1996 - 216 pages
...most God-loving author of Paradise Lost, perhaps liberty's greatest champion, wrote in Areopagitica, "Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties" (1959, 2:560). Unthinking inaction is also an erosion of democracy.... | |
 | William Riley Parker - Poets, English - 1996 - 708 pages
...a modern Areopagitica prevail upon a modern Parliament, with honest English eloquence, to give men 'the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties' ? Choosing the title for his oration, Milton hoped that it would frighten... | |
 | Robert Andrews - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1997 - 666 pages
...lexicographer. Quoted in James Boswell, Life of Dr. lohnson, entry, 1 780 (1791). As quoted by Mr. Langton. 3 Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties. JOHN MILTON, (1608-1674) British poet. Areopagitica: a Speech for... | |
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Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties. 
