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" Licence they mean when they cry Liberty ; For who loves that must first be wise and good ; But from that mark how far they rove we see, For all this waste of wealth and loss of blood. "
The life of Milton, and Conjectures on the Origin of Paradise Lost, by ... - Page 130
by William Hayley - 1810
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Eclectic Magazine, and Monthly Edition of the Living Age, Volume 18

American periodicals - 1849 - 602 pages
...what he calls "the blockish vulgar." He could talk of addressing them as — " Casting pearls to hogs, tones than calumny I Let them rave. License they mean when they say Liberty; For who loves that, must first be wise and good."* The " people"...
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Poetical Works

John Milton - 1850 - 704 pages
...bawl for freedom in their senseless mood, And still revolt when truth would set them free. License they mean when they cry liberty; For who loves that, must first he wise and good; But from that mark how far they rove we see, For all this waste of wealth, and loss...
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Expository Discourses on the First Epistle of the Apostle Peter

John Brown - Bible - 1851 - 814 pages
...and, given up to strong delusions, have supposed themselves free while the slaves of sin — men, " That bawl for freedom in their senseless mood, And still revolt when truth would set them free ;— License they meau when they cry liberty." ' Such were the men whom the apostle in his second epistle...
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Expository Discourses on the First Epistle of the Apostle Peter

John Brown - Bible - 1851 - 818 pages
...to strong delusions, have supposed themselves free while the slaves of sin — men, " That bawl tor freedom in their senseless mood, And still revolt when truth would set them free ; — License they mean when they cry liberty." * Such were the men whom the apostle in his second^pistle...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton, Volume 2

John Milton - 1852 - 424 pages
...twin-born progeny, Which after held the sun and moon in fee. But this is got by casting pearl to hogs ; That bawl for freedom in their senseless mood, And...; For who loves that, must first be wise and good ; But from that mark how far they rove we see, For all this waste of wealth, and loss of blood. XII....
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The Harvard Classics, Volume 4

Literature - 1909 - 502 pages
...twin-born progeny, Which after held the Sun and Moon in fee. But this is got by casting pearl to hogs, That bawl for freedom in their senseless mood, And...Liberty ; For who loves that must first be wise and good : But from that mark how far they rove we see, For all this waste of wealth and loss of blood. ON THE...
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פרקי אבות

Religion - 1986 - 154 pages
...free. He alone is truly free who knows and obeys the laws of Ciod. This is echoed in Milton's lines : " Licence they mean when they cry Liberty ; For who loves that, must first be wise and good." Mattanah . . . Narhaliel . . . liamoth. As words these place-names mean " gilt, heritage of God, heights...
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Presidents Above Party: The First American Presidency, 1789-1829

Ralph Ketcham - History - 1987 - 294 pages
...bawl for freedom in their senseless mood, Yet still revolt when truth would set them free; License they mean, when they cry liberty, For who loves that must first be wise and good.12 And it was the obligation of the patriot leader (as well as the paterfamilias), above everything...
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Miscellaneous Poems ; Paradise Regain'd ; & Samson Agonistes

John Milton - 1926 - 360 pages
...But this is got by catting Pearl to Hoggs; That bawle for freedom in their senceless mood. And slill revolt when truth would set them free. Licence they mean when they cry libertie; For who loves that, musljirsl be wise and good; But from that mark how far they roave we...
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Coleridge's Submerged Politics: The Ancient Mariner and Robinson Crusoe

Patrick J. Keane - Politics and literature - 1994 - 452 pages
...out-of-office Pitt. (Of course, the British themselves violated the treaty by refusing to abandon Malta.) mean, when they cry — Liberty! / For who loves that must first be wise and good.'"50 Even if essentially sincere, Coleridge is also being somewhat disingenuous; not all the "objections"...
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