 | Richard Newman, Patrick Rael, Phillip Lapsansky - African-Americans - 2001 - 340 pages
...bred them! I know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous dragons' teeth, and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men."t The particular works to which I refer, are so masterly, and have become so much the staple of... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 2001
...bred them. I know they are as lively and as vigorously productive as those fabulous dragon's teeth : and being sown up and down may chance to spring up...almost kill a man as kill a good book. Who kills a man, Mils a reasonable creature, God's image ; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills... | |
 | Kate Aughterson - England - 2002 - 628 pages
...I know they are as lively and as vigorously productive as those fahulous dragons' teeth, and heing sown up and down may chance to spring up armed men. And yet. on the other hand, unless wariness he used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good hook, Who kills a man kills a reasonahle creamre,... | |
 | Jennifer Andersen, Elizabeth Sauer - History - 2002 - 320 pages
...they are; . . . they are as lively, and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous Dragons teeth; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men" (CPW 2:492). Clearly Milton recognized the power of reading in the formulation of political ideas in... | |
 | Marion Moore Hill - Hate groups - 2003 - 240 pages
...glowing as he did so. Then Mavis devised a new tactic, answering in kind. When he offered the following: As good almost kill a man as kill a good book; who...itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye. —John Milton, Areopagitica Books are fatal: they are the curse of the human race. Nine-tenths of... | |
 | Randal Marlin - Philosophy - 2002 - 334 pages
...prepublication and post-publication censorship: "as good almost kill a man as kill a good book ... he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye."5 Perhaps his main argument is the argument from truth, that by prohibiting publication, the learning... | |
 | Rukmini Bhaya Nair - 2002 - 346 pages
...resultant process of destabilization, the good would be killed off along with the bad ("he who kills a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye"). The Enlightenment value of rationality—inherited, I have argued, most passionately by Rushdie himself... | |
 | Amy Hungerford - History - 2003 - 216 pages
...equivalent of persons vulnerable to law. Arguing against restrictive licensing codes, Milton suggests that "unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man...itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye."22 In poetic and (later) novelistic envoi, starting at least as early as Chaucer, books are admonished... | |
 | John Carrington - English literature - 2003 - 344 pages
...name of the hills near the Acropolis where the upper council met - the heart of Athenian democracy.) As good almost kill a man as kill a good book: who...itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye a good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to... | |
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Dragon's teeth; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. And yet on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book. Who kills a man, kills a reasonable creature. God's image ; but he who destroys... 
