 Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out. For as for the first wrong, it doth but offend the law ; but the revenge of that wrong putteth the law out of office.  The Emerald - Page 301806Full view - About this book
 | Benjamin G. Lovejoy - Authors, English - 1888 - 306 pages
...it openeth the gate to good fame, and extinguisheth envy: "Extinctus amabitur idem." \ OF REVENGE. Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out: for as for the first wrong, it doth but offend the law,... | |
 | Anna Lydia Ward - Citations anglaises - 1889 - 724 pages
...Historical Works. Ornamenta Rationalia. Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out; for as for the first wrong it dotli but offend the law, but the revenge of that wrong putteth the law out of office. 4770 Bacon :... | |
 | Anna Lydia Ward - Citations anglaises - 1889 - 720 pages
...Forgiveness. In revenge, baste is criminal. 4769 Bacon: Moral and Historical Works. Ornamenta Rationalia. Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out; for as for the first wrong it doth but offend the law,... | |
 | William Francis C. Wigston - Rosicrucians - 1891 - 502 pages
...VII.") We find Bacon in his Essays using the same simile to illustrate the extirpation of vice by law. " Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which, the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to veed it wet" (" Of Revenge "). And in the following passage, " Pride... | |
 | William John Deane - Bible - 1891 - 678 pages
...men must not take the law into their own hands. " Vengeance is mine, I will repay, saith Jehovah." " Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out. In taking revenge a man is but even with his enemy; but... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1893 - 304 pages
...(Effays: of Studies.} r REVENGE. Revenge is a kind of wild juftice, which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought Law to weed it out. For as for the firft wrong, it doth but offend the law ; but the revenge of that wrong putteth the law out of office.... | |
 | Rev. James Wood - Quotations - 1893 - 694 pages
...justice." It is so, but without this wild austere stock there would be no justice in the world. Burke, Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which, the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out. ¿incoa. Revenge is an act of passion ; vengeance, of justice.... | |
 | Free Religious Association (Boston, Mass.). Meeting - Religion - 1894 - 906 pages
...Bacon, — "As Lord Bacon says, 'Revenge is a kind of wild justice.' " What Lord Bacon does say is, "Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed out." [Applause.] These dexterous quotations are very familiar... | |
 | Alphonse Mariette - 1894 - 402 pages
...of talent which led to thb glories 12 of Marcngo and Hohenlinden. SIR ARCHIBALD ALISON. ON REVENGE. Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more man's nature runs to,13 the more ought law to weed it 1 Prevailed, regnaient — - plur. — 3 cannot be explained,... | |
 | Maturin Murray Ballou - Quotations, English - 1894 - 604 pages
...you can keep reason above passion, that and watchfulness will be your best defendants. — Newton. Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more man's nature runs to the more ought law to weed it out. — Bacon. Neither is it safe to count upon the weakness... | |
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