The author claims that "we are not yet Goths and Jutlanders," and uses the example of Dion Prusaeus speaking to the Rhodians, among others, to make his point.  Prefaced with a quote from Euripides' The Suppliants, it is modeled on and takes its title from the seventh oration of Isocrates.  Its prima
The author claims that "we are not yet Goths and Jutlanders," and uses the example of Dion Prusaeus speaking to the Rhodians, among others, to make his point.  Prefaced with a quote from Euripides' The Suppliants, it is modeled on and takes its title from the seventh oration of Isocrates.  Its primary theme is explained by the line that he "who kills a man kills a reasonable creature . . . but he who destroys a good book kills reason itself," a line that expresses the author's outrage at the Puritans' attempts to license all printing.  Published in 1644, FTP, identify this prose work by John Milton named for the Athenian hill.
The author claims that "we are not yet Goths and Jutlanders," and uses the example of Dion Prusaeus speaking to the Rhodians, among others, to make his point.  
Areopagitica (do not accept or prompt on "Areopagus")