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Areopagitica is among history's most influential and impassioned philosophical defences of the principle of a right to freedom of speech and expression. Many of its expressed principles have formed the basis for modern justifications of that right.
Feb 6, 2013 · Title: Areopagitica. A Speech For The Liberty Of Unlicensed Printing To The. Parliament Of England. Author: John Milton. Release Date: January 21, 2006 [EBook #608] Last Updated: February 6, 2013. Language: English. Character set encoding: ASCII. *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK AREOPAGITICA ***.
For this is not the liberty which wee can hope, that no grievance ever should arise in the Commonwealth, that let no man in this World expect; but when complaints are freely heard, deeply consider'd and speedily reform'd, then is the utmost bound of civill liberty attain'd, that wise men looke for.
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Areopagitica, pamphlet by John Milton, published in 1644 to protest an order issued by Parliament the previous year requiring government approval and licensing of all published books. Four earlier pamphlets by the author concerning divorce had met with official disfavour and suppressive measures.
Feb 21, 2008 · by Milton, John, 1608-1674; Hales, John W. (John Wesley), 1836-1914 Publication date 1894 Topics Freedom of the press Publisher Oxford Clarendon Press Collection robarts; harvardclassicssingles; toronto Contributor Robarts - University of Toronto Language English Item Size 391867188 26 Addeddate 2008-02-21 22:48:33 Associated-names Hales, John W. (John Wesley), 1836-1914 Call number AAZ-3591 ...
Areopagitica demonstrates Milton to be not only a great wordsmith and scholar, but also a brilliant political orator, even though this address to Parliament was never delivered orally.
Areopagitica (1644) (Jebb ed.) John Milton (author) Sir Richard C. Jebb (editor) This is Milton’s famous defense of freedom of speech and the press, in an edition based upon Sir Richard Jebb’s lectures at Cambridge in 1872, with extensive notes and commentaries.
During this era, he penned Areopagitica, probably the greatest polemical defense of the freedom of the press ever written. Following the restoration of the Stuart monarchy in 1660, Milton had to withdraw from political life.
JOHN MILTON, AREOPAGITICA (JEBB ED.) (1644) The Online Library of Liberty is a project of Liberty Fund, Inc., a non-profit educational foundation based in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. Liberty Fund, was established to foster thought and encourage discourse on the nature of individual liberty, limited and constitutional government, and the free ...
