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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
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The British Controversialist and Literary Magazine

Great Britain - 1868 - 978 pages
...thus, in ofc-quoted words, the motto of this magazine : Magna eit vertías et prœvalebit .- — " Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue...freely, according to conscience, above all liberties." ..." Though all the winds of dcictrino were let loose to play upon the earth, во Truth be in the...
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Areopagitica: 24 November> 1644. Preceded by Illustrative Documents

John Milton - Freedom of the press - 1869 - 92 pages
...becaufe by our laws we can hang a thief." * Milton's anfwer to this had been already written : — "Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to confcience above all liberties, t • • • Though all • Lives of English I'oets, I., 153, 154....
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The British Quarterly Review, Volume 6

Henry Allon - Christianity - 1847 - 586 pages
...which have preceded it. Dr. Vaughan, in the language of Milton, has claimed, ' above all other liberty, the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely, according to conscience :' and no thanks to some of his assailants, if the punishment of his presumption in so doing be not...
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Trial of Andrew Johnson: President of the United States, Before ..., Volume 2

Andrew Johnson - Impeachments - 1868 - 532 pages
...complete freedom of debate, and I shall exercise it. John Milton, in his glorious aspirations, said "Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely, above all liberties." Thank God, now that slave-masters have been driven from this chamber, such is...
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Areopagitica: 24 November 1644

John Milton - Freedom of the press - 1868 - 90 pages
...«caufe by our laws we can hang a thief." * Milton's anfwer to this had been already written : — " Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely ccording to confcience above all liberties, t • • • Though all • Lives of English Poets, I.,...
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Class-book of Science and Literature

Class-book - Literature - 1869 - 344 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. Abraham Cowley: 1618-1667. His Youth.— From his Essay ' Of Myself.' As far as my memory can return...
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Speeches of Thomas Lord Erskine, Volume 1

Thomas Erskine Baron Erskine - Freedom of the press - 1870 - 504 pages
...have purchased us ; liberty, which is the nurse of all great wits. This is that which hath rarefied and enlightened our spirits like the influence of...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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Speeches of Thomas Lord Erskine, Volume 1

Thomas Erskine Baron Erskine - Freedom of the press - 1870 - 514 pages
...brutish, formal, and slavish, as ye found us ; but you then must first become that which ye can..ot be, oppressive, arbitrary, and tyrannous, as they...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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Selections from the Prose Works of John Milton: With Critical Remarks and ...

John Milton - 1870 - 356 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. " What would be best advised then, if it be found so hurtful and so unequal to suppress opinions for...
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Selections from the Prose Works of John Milton: With Critical Remarks and ...

John Milton - 1870 - 382 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. " What would be best advised then, if it be found so hurtful and so unequal to suppress opinions for...
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