!) John Milton Flashcards
Liberty of conscience ‘above all other…
things ought to be to all men dearest and most precious’ (Aeropagitica - 1644)
‘The gift of…
freedom to be his own chooser’ (Aeropagitica - 1644)
‘who ever knew
truth put to the worse, in a free and open encounter?’ (Aeropagitica - 1644)
‘forth his reasons…
as it were a battle ranged’ (Aeropagitica - 1644)
‘to make the…
fittest to choose, and the chosen fittest to govern, will be to mend our corrupt and faulty education’ (The Ready and Easy Way - 1660)
‘that which purifies…
us is triall, and triall is by what is contrary’ (Aeropagitica - 1644)
‘despair not of…
[God’s] final pardon’ (Samson Antagonistes - 1671)
‘their human…
countenance…is changed/into some brutish form’ (Comus - 1634)
‘manacle the native…
liberty of mankind’ (Aeropagitica - 1644)
Who, in the Ready and Easy Way, are dependent on custom to make their decisions?
‘sluggards’ and the ‘unmanly’ (The Ready and Easy Way - 1660)
‘spiritual power…
and civil… the bounds of either sword to thee we owe’ (To Sir Henry Vane - 1652)
‘to bind our souls…
with secular chains (To Cromwell - 1652)
‘New-Presbyter is…
but old priest writ large’ (On the New Forcers - c.1646)
‘the power of Kings…
and Magistrates is… committed to them in trust from the People’ (On the Tenure - 1649)
‘the King and…
magistrate holds his authority of the people’ (On the Tenure - 1649)
‘knowing men will
easily agree with me, that a free Commonwealth… is by far the best government’ (The Ready and Easy Way - 1660)
Milton believed that free people ‘will elect…
good and virtuous people’ (The Ready and Easy Way - 1660)
‘ther may be…
such a king, who may regard the common good before his own’ (The Ready and Easy Way - 1660)
Who did Milton worry about in (The Tenure of Kings - 1649)?
those who joined parliament as a ‘novelty’
‘this yron yoke…
of outward conformity hath left a slavish print upon our necks’ (Aeropagitica - 1644)
‘Is it just or…
reasonable, that most voices against the main end of government should enslave the less number that would be free?’ (The Ready and Easy Way - 1660)
‘a less number…
compel a greater to retain… their liberty’ (The Ready and Easy Way - 1660)
Milton defended single rule by Cromwell who was ‘the greatest…
and most glorious of our citizens’ (Defensio Secunda - 1654)
What did the Lady in Comus claim to retain?
‘freedom of my mind’
