Talk:Areopagitica

message: Hi - I've uploaded the front page of my copy, but it's from 1933 - the original aman is bad would be better. There are plenty out there, but are any of the images free? - Gobeirne 07:58, 23 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Front page image 

message: This is my first edit, but please change "Milton had no intention of delivering his speech verbally" to "Milton had no intention of delivering his speech orally." The former sentence implies he would forgo the use of words (draw pictures?), but I think the intention is to say he would not speak the text of his speech. Recall: verbally→with words (via any media), orally→with speech. 131.252.222.195 15:51, 23 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Verbally/Orally 

message: This section doesn't look like part of an encyclopedia. While the opinions in that section may be valid, do they abide by NPOV and all that? The known facts of the Areopagitica should be enough. How people do or do not intepret it or use it is a bit of a stretch. There is no question about "misusing" Milton. Maybe misintepret, but intepretation of any text is up to the reader, and not to be defined by an encyclopedia. Oderic (talk) 10:36, 26 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Context

message: Hey dude, guys, anybody, let t'article with lot of "long s" (ſ) because i read t'Areopagitica's first edition: t'original title, t'front, have Areopagitica: A ſpeech of Mr. John Milton for the liberty of unlicenſed printing to the Parliament of England! A sample are t'quotes: 
:For books are not abſolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that ſoul whoſe progeny they are; nay, they do preſerve as in a vial the pureſt efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.
:As good almoſt kill a man as kill a good book: who kills a man kills a reaſonable creature, God's image; but he who deſtroys a good book, kills reaſon itſelf, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye.
:And though all the winds of doctrine were let looſe to play on the earth, ſo Truth be in the field, we do injuriouſly by licensing and prohibiting miſdoubt her ſtrength. Let her and Falſehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worſe in a free and open encounter?
:I cannot praiſe a fugitive and cloiſtered virtue, unexerciſed and unbreathed, that never ſallies out and ſees her adverſary, but ſlinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without duſt and heat.
It'serious, very important t'people learn as t'text was written originally.
Sylverfalls (talk) 01:32, 31 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Long S

message: The Edward Arber edition 1903 is set with long "s"s and ligatures, which are rather difficult to read, initially. 10 UK pence, good buy. The reader of the audiobook 2 has a great voice.Vernon White . . . Talk  15:24, 1 June 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: Long S and ligatures

message: The section about the meaning of the title of the pamphlet should also include reference to St Paul's Areopagitica sermon, in Acts 17: 18-34.  See  Stephen Burt, "To The Unknown God": St. Paul and Athens in Milton's 'Areopagitica'", Milton Quarterly, Vol. 32, No. 1 (MARCH 1998), pp. 23-31.(accessed 23-11-2017 at https://www.jstor.org/stable/24464964?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents).
Penelope Coleman (talk) 14:12, 23 November 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Reference needed to St Paul's Areopagitica Sermon in Background