 | Great Britain - 1804 - 716 pages
...opinions, which that society shall think pernicious ; but this punishment, though it may crush the author, promotes the book ; and it seems not more reasonable...the right of printing unrestrained, because writers rray be afterwards censured, than it would be to sleep with doors unbolted, because by our laws we... | |
 | William Belsham - 1806 - 646 pages
...Howards, &c. or else the securing a jury." * " It seems not more reasonable/' says Dr. Johnson, " to lenve the right of printing unrestrained, because writers...to sleep with doors unbolted, because by our laws vve can hang a thief." — Thus, by a dangerous illusion, are wit and metaphor too often by n:en of... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 482 pages
...unreftrained becaufe writers may be afterwards cenfured, than it would be to fleep with doors unbolted becaufe by our laws we can hang a thief. But, whatever were his engagements, civil or domeftick. poetry was never long out of his thoughts. About this time (1645) a collection of his Latin... | |
 | John Milton - 1807 - 514 pages
...opinions, which that society shall think pernicious ; but this punishment, though it may crush the author, promotes the book; and it seems not more reasonable...thief. But whatever were his engagements, civil or domestie, poetry was never long out of his thoughts. About this time (1645) a collection of his Latin... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 476 pages
...opinions which that society shall think pernicious; but this punishment, though it may crush the author, promotes the book ; and it seems not more reasonable...thief. But whatever were his engagements, civil or domestic, poetry was never long out of his thoughts. About this time (1645) a collection of his Latin... | |
 | William Hayley - 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... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 560 pages
...which that society shall thi«k . pernicious ; b«t this punishment, though it may crush the author, promotes the book ; and it seems not more reasonable...afterwards censured, than it would be to sleep with doors uubolted because by our laws we can hang a thief. But, whatever were his engagements, civil or domestic,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 420 pages
...though it may crush the author, promotes the book ; and it seems not more reasonable to leave the right1 of printing unrestrained because writers may be afterwards...would be to sleep with doors unbolted, because by •ur laws we can hang a thief. But, whatever were his engagements, civil or dojnestick, poetry was... | |
 | Thomas Starkie - 1813 - 710 pages
...opinions which that society shall think pernicious : but this punishment, though it may crush the author, promotes the book; and it seems not more reasonable...unbolted because by our laws we can hang a thief." The concluding comparison indicates the leaning of its author in favour of the previous restriction.... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - 1819 - 366 pages
...paragraph. After touching and dismissing the heads of Milton's argument, he concludes that it is ' not more reasonable to leave the right of printing...unbolted, because by our laws we can hang a thief.' The question is not, what this or that man may do to secure his own house, or to protect his own character.... | |
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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,... 
