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'Ir is of greatest concernment in the Church and Commonwealth to have a vigilant eye how books demean themselves as well as men, and thereafter to confine, imprison, and do sharpest justice on them as malefactors; for books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are.'-Milton. LONDON: WARD AND CO., PATERNOSTER ROW. W. OLIPHANT AND SON, EDINBURGH: R. JACKSON, GLASGOW: G. & R. KING, ABERDEEN: AND J. ROBERTSON, DUBLIN. ONE SHILLING & SIXPENCE. SAVILL AND EDWARDS, PRINTERS, CHANDOS STREET, COVENT GARDEN, |