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" The danger of such unbounded liberty, and the danger of bounding it, have produced a problem in the science of government, which human understanding seems hitherto unable to solve. If nothing may be published but what civil authority. shall have previously... "
Amenities of literature, sketches and characters of English literature - Page 415
by Isaac Disraeli - 1841
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Johnson's Life of Milton, with intr. and notes by F. Ryland

Samuel Johnson - 1894 - 196 pages
...same time his " Areopagitica, a Speech of Mr. John Milton for the liberty of unlicensed Printing." The danger of such unbounded liberty, and the danger...science of G-overnment, which human understanding seems hitherto unable to solve. If nothing may be published but what civil authority shall have previously...
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Lives of Milton and Addison

Samuel Johnson, John Wight Duff - 1900 - 318 pages
...same time his ' Areopagitica, a Speech ' of Mr John Milton ' for the Liberty of unlicensed Printing.' The danger of such unbounded liberty, and the danger...have produced a problem in the science of government 20 which human understanding seems hitherto unable to solve. If nothing may be published but what civil...
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Lives of the English Poets: Cowley-Dryden

Samuel Johnson - 1905 - 530 pages
...reprint of Areopagitica in 1738, when the Act was passed for licensing plays, see post, THOMSON, 31 «. danger of such unbounded liberty and the danger of...science of Government, which human understanding seems hitherto unable to solve. If nothing may be published but what civil authority shall have previously...
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Educational Foundations, Volume 17

1906 - 856 pages
...same time his " Areopagitica, a speech of Mr. John Milton for the liberty of unlicensed Printing." The danger of such unbounded liberty, and the danger...science of government, which human understanding seems hitherto unable to solve. If nothing may be published but what civil authority shall have previously...
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Studies in the History of Venice, Volume 2

Horatio Forbes Brown - 1907 - 366 pages
...the problem in a vigorous and compact form. In dealing with the question of a free press, he says : " The danger of such unbounded liberty, and the danger...science of government which human understanding seems hitherto unable to solve. If nothing may be published but what civil authorities shall have previously...
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Milton's prozawerken ...

Martinus Visser - 1911 - 216 pages
...zegt naar aanleiding van de Areopagitica in zijn ,Life of Milton' Cassell-editie p. 70: „Thedangerof such unbounded liberty and the danger of bounding...science of government, which human understanding seems hitherto unable to solve. If nothing may be published but what civil authority shall have previously...
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Contemporary Criticisms of Dr. Samuel Johnson, His Works, and His Biographers

John Ker Spittal - 1923 - 438 pages
...speech of Mr. John Milton for the liberty of unlicensed printing. " The danger, says his Biographer, of such unbounded liberty, and the danger of bounding...science of government, which human understanding seems hitherto unable to solve. If nothing may be published but what civil authority shall have previously...
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The Chobham Book of English Prose

Stephen Coleridge - 1923 - 290 pages
...way, has commented on the Areopagitica thus : " The danger of such unbounded liberty, and the dangei of bounding it, have produced a problem in the science of government, which human understanding seems hitherto unable to solve. " If nothing may be published but what civil authority shall have previously...
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English Literature: A Survey and a Commentary

Francis Meehan - 1928 - 764 pages
...will be satisfactory except one consonant with the sound and liberal views here set forth by Johnson : The danger of such unbounded liberty, and the danger...science of government, which human understanding seems hitherto unable to solve. If nothing may be published but what civil authority shall have previously...
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Wiretapping and Eavesdropping Legislation..: Hearings Before the ...

United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1961 - 598 pages
...years ago, stated the dilemma and emphasized Its apparent insolubility when he said, "The danger of unbounded liberty and the danger of bounding it have...science of government which human understanding seems hitherto unable to solve." One might comment that Johnson was being unduly optimistic when he modified...
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