 | Henry John Wale - 1883 - 430 str.
...this punishment, though it may crush the Author, promotes the book, and it seems not more unreasonable to leave the right of printing unrestrained, because...unbolted, because by our laws we can hang a thief. St. James's Chro. %ber 22nd, 1789. My last Will and Testament will give and bequeath to my Son Gregory... | |
 | Henry John Wale - 1883 - 398 str.
...this punishment, though it may crush the Author, promotes the book, and it seems not more unreasonable to leave the right of printing unrestrained, because...unbolted, because by our laws we can hang a thief. Si. James's Chro. 8her 2.2nd, 1789. My last Will and Testament will give and bequeath to my Son Gregory... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1888 - 502 str.
...censured, than it would 1 Milton. Wit and Wisdom of Samuel Johnson. be Wtt and Wisdom of Samuel Johnson. be to sleep with doors unbolted, because by our laws we can hang a thief. Wwks, vii. 82. Lichfield Cathedral: ' IN Lichfield Cathedral porch, a gentleman, who might, perhaps,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1892 - 180 str.
...the book ; and it seems not more reasonable to leave the right of printing unrestrained, be- 30 cause writers may be afterwards censured, than it would...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, John Wight Duff - 1900 - 318 str.
...reasonable to leave the right of printing unrestrained because writers may be afterwards censured, 5 than it would be to sleep with doors 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... | |
 | David George Ritchie - 1903 - 332 str.
...protected 1 Law of the Constitution, ch. vi. 2 Cf. the argument of Dr. Johnson in his Life of Milton : " It seems not more reasonable to leave the right of...unbolted, because by our laws we can hang a thief." Our laws do not, however, oblige the policeman to find out where every man is going to, lest one or... | |
 | John Milton - 1905 - 224 str.
...of England is gone for ever when these attempts (ie attempts at licensing) shall succeed." (HUME.) " It seems not more reasonable to leave the right of...unbolted, because by our laws we can hang a thief." (DR. JOHNSON.) " The danger of such unbounded liberty (of Unlicensed rinting), and the danger of bounding... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1907 - 172 str.
...society may punish, though not prevent, the publication of opinions which that society shall 10think pernicious; but this punishment, though it may crush...unbolted, because by our laws we can hang a thief. 15 But whatever were his engagements, civil _or -.domestic. poetry was never long out of his thoughts.... | |
 | University of Calcutta - 1910 - 684 str.
...justice to authors. Why must it, sooner or later, fall into the hands of incompetent men ? Or, ' ' It seems not more reasonable to leave the right of...unbolted, because by our laws we can hang a thief " State Milton's argument with reference to the effects of licensing, and shew whether this criticism... | |
 | Royal Society of Literature (Great Britain) - 1910 - 568 str.
...seems not more reasonable to leave the right of printing unrestrained because writers may afterwards be censured, than it would be to sleep with doors unbolted because by our laws we can hang a thief." Once more and for the last time, for it brings his life to an end, I must use Nicholas Amhurst to illustrate... | |
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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,... 
