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Nefarious
Leviathan
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4. Our Idea of Space boundless.This, I think, is the way whereby the mind gets the IDEA of infinite space. It is a quite different consideration, to examine whether the mind has the idea of such a boundless space ACTUALLY…
Gregarious
“But with regard to your Church proper, and the Church-Clothes specially recognized as Church-Clothes, I remark, fearlessly enough, that without such Vestures and sacred Tissues Society has not existed, and will not exist. For if Government is, so to speak,…
William Blake’s printing process
Prosaic
When this Verse was first dictated to me I consider’d a Monotonous Cadence like that used by Milton & Shakspeare & all writers of English Blank Verse, derived from the modern bondage of Rhyming; to be a necessary and indispensible…
Quip
The Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia (1593)
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Orwell and Milton: By the known rules of ancient liberty; Jesuit Relations and The Dawn of Everything
Orwell ends his introduction to Animal Farm with: In our country … it is the liberals who fear liberty and the intellectuals who want to do dirt on the intellect: it is to draw attention to that fact that I…