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Select Speeches, Forensick and Parliamentary: With Prefatory Remarks - Page 429
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The Prose Works of John Milton, Volume 1

John Milton - 1845 - 572 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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Common sense, and the rights of conscience, vindicated, against spiritual ...

Independent Whig, Andrew SCOTT (Member of the Merchant Company, Edinburgh.) - 1845 - 420 pages
...followed in their deviations than in their partial adherence to the rule. " Give me," says Milton, " the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties. The whole freedom of man consists either in spiritual or civil liberty. As for spiritual, who can be...
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Half-hours with the best authors, selected by C. Knight, Volume 3

Half hours - 1847 - 580 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. 183.— Hesolutfons. BISHOP BEVEBIDGE. CONCERNING MY TALENTS. HAVING so solemnly devoted myself to...
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The Prose Works of John Milton, Volume 2

John Milton - Essays - 1848 - 566 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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The Great American Question, Democracy Vs. Doulocracy, Or, Free Soil, Free ...

William Wilson - Campaign literature - 1848 - 48 pages
...shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in the said territory,** etc.— ORDINANCE OF 1787. "Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely, according to my conscience, above all liberties.-'— MILTON. *» . ..*CINCINNATI: E. SHEPARD'S STEAM PRESS. MDCCCXLVIII....
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History of Congress, biographical and political, Volume 1

Henry G. Wheeler - United States - 1848 - 692 pages
...yet in, store for it. Well did John Milton exclaim, in his noble defense of unlicensed printing, ' Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely, above all liberties ;' for, in securing that, we secure the all-sufficient instrument for achieving...
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The Christian Observatory, Volume 3

Christianity - 1849 - 606 pages
...enfranchised, enlarged, and lifted up our apprehensions, degrees above themselves." Therefore, he says, " give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely, according to conscience, which is above all liberties." From this liberty of inquiry, so visibly inscribed on the portals of...
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The Fugitive Slave Bill: Its History and Unconstitutionality : with an ...

American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society - Abolitionists - 1850 - 68 pages
...Fellow-citizens, — In all things that have beauty, there is nothing to man more comely than liberty. Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely, above all liberties. (Cheers.) A more important subject than this never, in the history of this country,...
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Celebrated Speeches of Chatham, Burke, and Erskine to which is Added, the ...

1851 - 560 pages
...now more erected to the search and expectation of greatest and exactest things, is the issue of our own virtue propagated in us. Give me the liberty to...freely according to conscience, above all liberties." But now every man is to be cried down for such opinions. 1 observed that my learned friend significantly...
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The works of John Milton in verse and prose, with a life of the ..., Volume 4

John Milton - 1851 - 606 pages
...Although I difpraife not the defence of juft immunities, yet love my peace better, if that were all. Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to confcience, above all liberties. ] What would be beftli3vis'd then, if it be found fo hurtfull and...
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