 | John McCormick, Mairi MacInnes - Political Science - 2006 - 400 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 only... | |
 | John Witte - History - 2007 - 25 pages
...the choice of a virtuous life is more genuine and praiseworthy when it is real and not artificial. "If every action which is good or evil in man at ripe years, were to be under pittance, and prescription, and compulsion, what were virtue but a name?" I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered... | |
 | John Milton - English literature - 1923 - 338 pages
...matters as these, when all licencing will be easily eluded. Impunity and remissness, for certain, arc the bane of a commonwealth; but here the great art...evil in man at ripe years, were to be under pittance and prescription and compulsion, what were virtuejaut a name, what praise could be then due to well-doing,... | |
 | John Milton - 1942 - 180 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...persuasion only is to work. If every action which is 20 good or evil in man at ripe years were to be under pittance, and prescription, and compulsion, what... | |
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If every action, which is good or evil in man at ripe years, were to be under pittance and... 
