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" Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties. "
Select Speeches, Forensick and Parliamentary: With Prefatory Remarks - Page 429
edited by - 1807
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The speeches of the hon. Thomas Erskine ... when at the Bar, on ..., Volume 2

Thomas Erskine (1st baron.) - 1810 - 478 pages
...(t be, oppressive, arbitrary, and tyrannous, as they " were from whom ye have freed us. That our fc hearts are now more capacious, our thoughts now "...conscience, above all liberties." Gentlemen, I will yet refer you to another author, whose opinion you may think more in point, as having lived in our...
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The Speeches of the Hon. Thomas Erskine: (now Lord Erskine), when ..., Volume 2

Thomas Erskine Baron Erskine - Freedom of the press - 1810 - 470 pages
...more erected to the search and expectation of " greatest and exactest things, is the issue of yottr " own virtue propagated in us. Give me the liberty "...conscience, above all liberties." Gentlemen, I will yet refer you to another author, whose opinion you may think more in point, as having lived in our...
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Elegant extracts: a copious selection of passages from the most ..., Volume 6

Elegant extracts - 1812 - 310 pages
...of your own virtue propagated in us. Although I dispraise not the defence of just immunities ; yet give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue...freely, according to conscience, above all liberties. As good ahuost kill a man as kill a book : who kills a man, kills a reasonable creature, God's image...
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The Speeches of the Hon. T. Erskine (now Lord Erskine): When at ..., Volume 2

James Ridgway - Freedom of the press - 1813 - 470 pages
...influence of heaven ; this is that which " hath enfranchised, enlarged, and lifted up our ap" prehensions, degrees above themselves. Ye cannot " make us now...conscience, above all liberties." Gentlemen, I will yet refer you to another author, whose opinion you may think more in point, as having lived in our...
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A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High ..., Volume 22

Trials - 1817 - 650 pages
...capacious, our thoughts now more erected to the search and expectation of greatest and cxactest tilings, is the issue of your own virtue propagated in us."...conscience, above all liberties." * Gentlemen, I will yet refer you to another author, -whose opinion you muy think more in point, as having lived in our...
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A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High ..., Volume 22

Trials - 1817 - 650 pages
...exactest things, is the issue of your own virtue propagated in us."- — " Give me the liberty to know, lo utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties." * Gentlemen, I will yet refer you to another author, whose opinion you may think more in point, as having lived in our...
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Examples of English Prose: From the Reign of Elizabeth to the Present Time ...

George Walker - English prose literature - 1825 - 668 pages
...Although I dispraise not the defence of just immunities, yet love my peace better, if that were all. Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue...freely, according to conscience, above all liberties. JOHN PEARSON, BISHOP OF CHESTER. Born 1612— Died 1686. EXPOSITION OF THE CREED. The second part of...
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A Selection from the English Prose Works of John Milton, Volume 2

John Milton - 1826 - 368 pages
...although I dispraise not the defence of just immunities,'yet love my peace better, if that were all. Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue...freely according to conscience, above all liberties. rate them, though in some disconformity to ourselves. The book itself will tell us more at large, being...
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American Annual Register, Volume 2; Volume 4

Joseph Blunt - History - 1830 - 646 pages
...then is the utmost bound of civil liberty attained, that wise men look for." And a little farther, " Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscicnce, above all liberties. Though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth,...
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The American Annual Register, Part 2

Joseph Blunt - History - 1835 - 624 pages
...then is the utmost bound of civil liberty attained, that wise men look for." And a little farther, " 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, so truth be in the field, we...
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