 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1800 - 714 pages
...reasonable to leave ^ right of printing unrestrained, because writers may be afterwards cenfcwi than h would be to sleep with doors unbolted; because by our laws we tw bang a thief. But whatever were his engagements, civil or dbmestic; poetfy was never long "t of... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 594 pages
...though it may crush the author, promotes the book ; and it seems not more reasonable to leave ih-e right of printing unrestrained because writers may...unbolted, because by our laws we can hang a thief. Life of Milton« OCCASSIONAL PUBLICATIONS. There is, perhaps, no nation in which it is so necessary... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 716 pages
...and it seems not more reasonable to leave the right of printing unrestrained, because writers rray be afterwards censured, than it would be to sleep...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 - English literature - 1806 - 336 pages
...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 domestick, poetry was never long out of his thoughts. About... | |
 | John Milton - 1807 - 514 pages
...civil authority shall have previously approved, power must always be the standard of truth ; if svery dreamer of innovations may propagate his projects,...unbolted, because by our laws we can hang a thief. But whatever were his engagements, civil or domestie, poetry was never long out of his thoughts. About... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 476 pages
...every murmurer at government may 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 domestic, poetry was never long out of his thoughts. About... | |
 | William Hayley - Poets, English - 1810 - 472 pages
...sareastic animosity against the liberty of the press. " It seems not more reasonable, " says Johnson, " to leave the right of printing unrestrained, because...unbolted, because by our laws we can hang a thief." This is servile sophistry ; the author's illustration of a thief maybe turned against himself. To suffer... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 420 pages
...yet allowed that every society may punish, though not prevent, the publication of opinions which the society shall think pernicious ; but this punishment,...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.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1816 - 486 pages
...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 - 1818 - 410 pages
...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.... | |
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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,... 
