 | Ezekiel Sanford - 1819 - 366 str.
...paragraph. After touching and dismissing the heads of Milton's argument, he concludes that it is ' not more reasonable to leave the right of printing...unbolted, because by our laws we can hang a thief.' The question is not, what this or that man may do to secure his own house, or to protect his own character.... | |
 | John Milton - 1819 - 484 str.
...reasoable, says Johnson, to leave the Right of Printing unrestrained, because Writers may be afterward censured, than it would be to sleep with doors unbolted, because by our Laws we can hang a thief. This is servile sophistry ; the Authour's illustration of a thief may be turned against himself. To... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 470 str.
...to solve. If nothing may be published but what civil authority shall have previously approved, power must always be the standard of truth : if every dreamer...unbolted, because by our laws we can hang a thief. But whatever were his engagements, civil or domestic, poetry was never long out of his thoughts. About... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 466 str.
...to solve. If nothing may be published but what civil authority shall have previously approved, power must always be the standard of truth : if every dreamer...unbolted, because by our laws we can hang a thief. But whatever were his engagements, civil or domestic, poetry was never long out of his thoughts. About... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 476 str.
...every murmurer at government may diffuse discontent, there can be no peace ; and if every sceptick in theology may teach his follies, there can be no...unbolted, because by our laws we can hang a thief. But whatever were his engagements, civil or domestick, poetry was never long out of his thoughts. About... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1821 - 502 str.
...every murmurer at government may diffuse discontent, there can be no peace ; and if every sceptick in theology may teach his follies, there can be no...unbolted, because by our laws we can hang a thief. But whatever were his engagements, civil or domestick, poetry was never long out of his thoughts. About... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 302 str.
...approved, power must always be the standard of truth : if every dreamer of innovations may propagate bis projects, there can be no settlement; if every murmurer...unbolted, because by our laws we can hang a thief. But whatever were his engagements, civil or domestic, poetry was never long out of his thoughts. About... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 468 str.
...How, Sir ! not damn the Sharper, but the Dice? NOTES. unrestrained, because writers may be afterward censured, than it would be to sleep with doors unbolted, because by our laws we can hang a thief." To which Mr. Hayley answers, " To suffer no book to be published without a licence, is tyranny as absurd,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1823 - 652 str.
...if every munnurer at government may diffuse discontent, there can be no peace; and if every sceptick in theology may teach his follies, there can be no...unbolted, because by our laws we can hang a thief. But whatever were his engagements, civil or domestick, poetry was never long out of his thoughts. About... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 504 str.
...every murmurer at government may diffuse discontent, there can be no peace ; and if every skeptick in theology may teach his follies, there can be no...unbolted, because by our laws we can hang a thief. But whatever were his engagements, civil or domestick, poetry was never long out of his thoughts. About... | |
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... there can be no religion. The remedy against these evils is to punish the authors; for it is yet allowed that every society may punish, though not prevent, the publication of opinions which that society shall think pernicious. But this punishment,... 
