 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
 | Literature - 1909 - 378 pages
...pressure of consciences, were commonly interested therein themselves for their own ends. IV 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;... | |
 | J. C. Davis - History - 1983 - 444 pages
...discussing duelling, Bacon utilised the concept of law as a means of combatting the defects of man's nature. 'Revenge is a kind of wild justice; which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.'84 Perhaps the clearest discussion Bacon produced of the... | |
 | Takashi Suzuki, Tsuyoshi Mukai - Literary Collections - 1993 - 302 pages
...2829 ff.; 2866 ff.; 2919 ff. 11 'Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord' (Romans, 12:19). 'Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which, the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law weed it out' (F. Bacon, Essays, IV, 1597). after Lancelot has placed him... | |
 | Robert Jewett - Religion - 1993 - 200 pages
...the proper role of government. It provokes us to think about what Roger Bacon wrote in his essays: "Revenge is a kind of wild justice; which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out."21 Private vengeance disguised as selfless redemption has... | |
 | N. K. Oo - Body, Mind & Spirit - 1995 - 100 pages
...encourages submission to further injury. These are biblical voices. Civil authority speaks as loudly. "Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which, the more man's nature runs to, the more ought the law to weed it out." Note, a wild justice—a justice, that is, not sanctioned... | |
 | Cyril Tourneur, Thomas Middleton - Drama - 1996 - 148 pages
...England, by contrast, revenge was outlawed, for, as Francis Bacon put it in his essay on the topic, '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;... | |
 | Connie Robertson - Reference - 1998 - 686 pages
...weighty and solid. 730 Essays 'Of Regimen of Health' Age will not be defied. 731 Essays 'Of Revenge' spaces [the heavensl terrifies me. 8541 Pensees On mourra seul runs to, the more ought law to weed it out. 732 Essays 'Of Revenge' A man that studieth revenge keeps... | |
 | Andrew Ashworth, Martin Wasik - Law - 1998 - 314 pages
...a brake upon the unrestrained expression of individual emotions. To quote Bacon's aphorism in full 'Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out'. But if these procedures are to function satisfactorily,... | |
 | Charles K. B. Barton - Law - 1999 - 202 pages
...system. l Paradigms of Justice No more tears now; I will think upon revenge. Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots' Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought lava to weed it out. Francis Bacon2 The above aphorisms capture well the divergent... | |
 | Laura Manske - Travel - 1999 - 380 pages
...survival of the black rhinoceros in Kenya. Tfiis story was excerpted from her book, I Dreamed of Africa. Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out. — Francis Bacon, Apothegms (1624) CHELSEA CAIN A Room... | |
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