 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1842 - 716 pages
...opinions which that society shall think pernicious ; but this punishment, though it mav crush the author, promotes the book ; and it. seems not more reasonable...writers may be afterwards censured^ than it would he to sleep with doors unbolted ' because by our laws we can hang a thief. But, whatever were his engagements,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1846 - 714 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 hia thoughts. About this time, (1645,) a collectionof hisLatin... | |
 | C. Gough - 1853 - 414 pages
...opinions, which that society may 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. A DOCTOR returned a coat to a tailor, because it did not fit him. The tailor, seeing the doctor at... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 468 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 346 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 472 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 to leave the right of printing unrestrained be- ' cause writers may be afterwards censured, than it would be to sleep with doors unbolted because... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1858 - 418 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. He had taken a larger house in Barbican for the... | |
 | Walter Scott Dalgleish - 1865 - 80 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...afterwards censured, than it would be to sleep with our doors unbolted, because by our laws we can hang a thief. — Johnson. 33. It fortuned out of the... | |
 | James McCrie - 1871 - 652 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...leave the right of printing unrestrained, because authors may be afterwards censured, than it would be to sleep with doors unbolted, because by our laws... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1881 - 570 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 to leave the right of printing unrestrained, becausS writers may be afterwards censured, than it would be to sleep with doors unbolted, because... | |
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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,... 
