 | James D. McCabe - 1868 - 538 pages
...England's poets (Milton) has said, ' Impunity and remissness are the bane of a commonwealth ; bnt hero the great art lies, to discern in what the law is to hid restraint and punishment, and on what things persuasion only is to work.' "The same problem still... | |
 | John Milton, James Augustus St. John - 1871 - 560 pages
...be, which will bear chief sway in such matters as these, when all licensing will be easily eluded. Impunity and remissness for certain are the bane of...commonwealth ; but here the great art lies, to discern in whut the. law is to bid restraint and punishment, and in what things persuasion TBnly is to work. If... | |
 | John Earle - English language - 1873 - 736 pages
...man who thought to pound up the crows by shutting his Park-gate.' — John Milton, Areopagitica. ' If every action which is good or evil! in man at ripe years were to be under pittance, and prescription, and compulsion, what were vertue but a name, what praise could be then due to well-doing,... | |
 | John Milton - Freedom of the press - 1873 - 130 pages
...eluded. Impunity and remissenes for certain are the bane of a Commonwealth; but here the great art lyes, to discern in what the Law is to bid restraint and punishment, and in what things perswasion only is to work. If eveiy action which is good or evill in man at ripe years, were to be... | |
 | John Milton - 1873 - 130 pages
...chief sway in such matters as these, when all Licencing will be easily eluded. Impunity and remissenes for certain are the bane of a Commonwealth; but here the great art lyes, to discern in what the Law is to bid restraint and punishment, and in what things perswasion... | |
 | Homer Baxter Sprague - English literature - 1874 - 474 pages
...they be which will bear chief sway in such matters as these, when all licensing will be easily eluded. Impunity and remissness for certain are the bane of...evil in man at ripe years, were to be under pittance, and prescription, and compulsion, what were virtue but a name ? What praise could be then due to well-doing... | |
 | John Milton - 1874 - 228 pages
...sway in such matters as 15 these, when all licencing will be easily eluded. Impunity and remissenes, for certain, are the bane of a Commonwealth ; but here the great art lyes to discern in what the law is to bid restraint and punishment, and in what things perswasion only... | |
 | Robert Potts - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1875 - 208 pages
...wise institutions can besought for only in an inflexible observance of them.. — Chinese maxim. 708. Impunity and remissness for certain are the• bane...punishment, and in what things persuasion only is to work. — John Milton. 709. One of the firmest supports of princes and statesmen is the general distribution... | |
 | Law - 1875 - 774 pages
...from some acts without any command. Milton's rule may be carried to a higher point, when he says, " Impunity and remissness for certain are the bane of...restraint and punishment, and in what things persuasion alone is to work."* And this is the theory which Austin would have us accept. The theory of a moral... | |
 | John Milton - 1875 - 560 pages
...be, which will bear chief sway in such matters as these, when all licensing will be easily eluded. Impunity and remissness for certain are the bane of...the great art lies, to discern in what the law is to ">id restraint and punishment, and in what things persuasion nily is to work. If every action which... | |
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