 | Civil rights - 1795 - 432 pages
...inquisition tyrannises;. when I have sat among their learned men, who did nothing but bemoan the servile condition into which learning amongst them was brought; that this was it. which had damped the glory of Italianwits; that nothing had bjen there written now these'many years but flbttery.hnd .fuMary 'There.... | |
 | John Milton, Charles Symmons - Poets, English - 1806 - 436 pages
...England was, while themfelvesdid nothing but bemoan the fervile condition into which learning amongft them was brought; that this was it which had damped...Italian .wits ; that nothing had been there written now thefe many years but flattery and fuftian. There it was that I found and vifited the famous Galileo... | |
 | John Milton, Charles Symmons - Poets, English - 1806 - 446 pages
...England was, while themfelves did nothing but bemoan the fervile condition into which learning amongft them was brought ; that this was it which had damped...Italian wits ; that nothing had been there written now thefe many years but flattery and fuftian. There it was that I found and vifited the famous Galileo... | |
 | 1806 - 854 pages
...arrogated to herself such preposterous authority ; and (to use the words of Milton) " Galileo grew old a prisoner to the inquisition for thinking in astronomy other wise t ha n the Franciscan and Dominican fmrs thought." We cannot close thischaptei better than by quoting... | |
 | John Milton, Charles Symmons - 1806 - 624 pages
...perverted religion, he passed two months in the contemplation of the wonders of her ancient and inous Galileo, grown old, a prisoner to the Inquisition, for thinking in astronomy otherwise than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought." A speech for unlicensed printing. PW... | |
 | Benjamin Flower - 1811 - 578 pages
...themselves did nothing. (iut hemoan the servile condition into which learning amongst them was hrought ; that this was it which had damped the glory of Italian wits ; that nothing had heen there written now these many years hut flattery and fustian. There it was that I found und visited... | |
 | John Milton - 1809 - 534 pages
...servile condition into which learning am6^gstTEenT'was brought ; that this was it whic,E~haaFV(5mged the glory of Italian wits ; that nothing had been...years but flattery and fustian. There it was that 1 found and visited the famous Galileo, grown old, a pri-_ soner to the inquisition, for thinking in... | |
 | William Hayley - Poets, English - 1810 - 472 pages
...towards the Newtonian philosophy. He says himself, speaking of Italy in his Areopagitica, "there'll was that I found and visited the famous Galileo grown...prisoner to the Inquisition for thinking in astronomy, otherwise than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought!" It seems not unreasonable to conclude,... | |
 | Charles Symmons - 1810 - 684 pages
...policy and the engine of perverted religion, he passed two months in the conu " There it was (in Italy) that I found and visited the famous Galileo, grown...prisoner to the Inquisition, for thinking in astronomy otherwise than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought." A Speech for Unlicensed Printing. PW... | |
 | Charles Symmons - 1810 - 690 pages
...religion, he passed two months in the con• " There it was (in Italy) that I found and visited the fanaoos Galileo, grown old, a prisoner to the Inquisition, for thinking in astronomy otherwise than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought." A Speech for Unlicensed Printing. P.... | |
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I had), and been counted happy to be born in such a place of philosophic freedom as they supposed England was, while themselves did nothing but bemoan the servile condition into which learning amongst them was brought; that this was it which had damped... 
