...abolition of thought-control would liberate men's energies and lead to a great intellectual leap forward. 'A nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious and piercing spirit, acute to invent, subtle and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point the highest that human capacity...

...million or so inhabitants. Not for nothing did Milton describe his countrymen in "Areopagitica" as a nation not slow and dull but of a quick, ingenious and piercing spirit, acute to invent, subtle and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point, the highest that human capacity...

...and Commons of England, consider what Nation it is wherof ye are, and wherof ye are the governours: a Nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit, acute to invent, suttle and sinewy to discours, not beneath the reach of any point the highest that human capacity can...

...and Commons of England, consider what Nation it is wherof ye are, and wherof ye are the governours: a Nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit, acute to invent, suttle and sinewy to discours, not beneath the reach of any point the highest that human capacity can...

...to be "of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit, acute to invent, suttle and sinewy to discours, not beneath the reach of any point the highest that human capacity can soar to." Milton traced censorship back to Roman despots and popes and represented the licensing procedure as...

...Leah Levin, Richard Norton-Taylor, Andrew Puddephatt, Geoffrey Robertson and Philip Spender. I^ord and Commons of England, consider what nation it is whereof ye are: a nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit. It must not be shackled...

...was a rising nationalism of the kind which reaches its peak in Milton's Areopagitica (1644) : Lords and Commons of England, consider what Nation it is whereof ye are, and whereof ye are the governors: ... the favour and the love of Heaven, we have great argument to think in a peculiar manner propitious...

...the English to be the chosen people. He appealed to the Lords and Commons of England in Areopagitica: "Consider what Nation it is whereof ye are, and whereof ye are the governours: a Nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit, acute to invent,...

...Cliffs, a long narrative poem extolling Britain's resistance during World War II. 45 Lords and Commoners 0 subtle and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point the highest that human capacity...

...beleaguered Parliamentary army, the opening exhortation of that description should raise questions: "consider what Nation it is whereof ye are, and whereof ye are the governors." England's armies were in fact deciding on the field of battle what the nation was and who governed...