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Page 57
... once to the question , which will probably have more than once occurred to the reflecting reader of the preceding essay . How will these rules apply to the most important mode of communication ? to that , in which one man C * The may ...
... once to the question , which will probably have more than once occurred to the reflecting reader of the preceding essay . How will these rules apply to the most important mode of communication ? to that , in which one man C * The may ...
Page 58
... once published , are as likely to fall in the way of the incompetent as of the judicious , and will be fortunate indeed if they are not many times looked at through the thick mists of ignorance , or amid the glare of prejudice and ...
... once published , are as likely to fall in the way of the incompetent as of the judicious , and will be fortunate indeed if they are not many times looked at through the thick mists of ignorance , or amid the glare of prejudice and ...
Page 63
... so self - evident , or so imme- diately and palpably deduced from those that are , or are ac- knowledged for such , that they are at once intelligible to all men . who possess the common advantages of the social state , ESSAY VIII . 63.
... so self - evident , or so imme- diately and palpably deduced from those that are , or are ac- knowledged for such , that they are at once intelligible to all men . who possess the common advantages of the social state , ESSAY VIII . 63.
Page 72
... once so in- vidious and so precarious ? And what institution can retain anj useful influence in so free a nation when its abuses have made it contemptible ? Lastly , and which of itself would suffice to justify the rejection of such a ...
... once so in- vidious and so precarious ? And what institution can retain anj useful influence in so free a nation when its abuses have made it contemptible ? Lastly , and which of itself would suffice to justify the rejection of such a ...
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... once , as far as in him lies , would render the press ineffectual and the law odious : who would lock up the main river , the Thames , of our intellectual commerce ; would throw a bar across the stream , that must render its navigation ...
... once , as far as in him lies , would render the press ineffectual and the law odious : who would lock up the main river , the Thames , of our intellectual commerce ; would throw a bar across the stream , that must render its navigation ...
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Page 69 - 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. For 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...
Page 416 - My liege, and madam, to expostulate What majesty should be, what duty is, Why day is day, night night, and time is time, Were nothing but to waste night, day, and time. Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit, yo And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, I will be brief: your noble son is mad.
Page 460 - Earth fills her lap with pleasures of her own ; Yearnings she hath in her own natural kind, And, even with something of a Mother's mind, And no unworthy aim, The homely Nurse doth all she can To make her Foster-child, her Inmate Man, Forget the glories he hath known, And that imperial palace whence he came. Behold the Child among his new-born blisses, A six years...
Page 190 - Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters? Know ye not that we shall judge angels? how much more things that pertain to this life?
Page 69 - I know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous dragon's teeth ; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. " And yet on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book. Who kills a man, kills a reasonable creature, God's image ; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself; kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye.
Page 494 - But who, if he be called upon to face Some awful moment to which Heaven has joined Great issues, good or bad for human kind, Is happy as a Lover; and attired With sudden brightness, like a Man inspired...
Page 77 - Since therefore the knowledge and survey of vice is in this world so necessary to the constituting of human virtue, and the scanning of error to the confirmation of truth, how can we more safely, and with less danger, scout into the regions of sin and falsity than by reading all manner of tractates and hearing all manner of reason?
Page 23 - Doth any man doubt, that if there were taken out of men's minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as one would, and the like, but it would leave the minds of a number of men poor shrunken things, full of melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves...