In the canon
Areopagitica
- Form
- Form Essay
- Year
- Year 1644
- Pages
- Pages 60
As good almost kill a man as kill a good book, Milton wrote, and he printed the sentence in open defiance of the licensing order it attacks: unlicensed, unentered in the Stationers' Register, and signed with his own name on the title page. He cast it as a speech to Parliament and never delivered a word of it aloud.
As good almost kill a man as kill a good book. Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image.
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