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" 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. "
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A Dictionary of Quotations in Prose: From American and Foreign Authors ...

Anna Lydia Ward - 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...but offend the law, but the revenge of that wrong puttcth the law out of office. 4770 Bacon : Essays. Of Revenge. You owe me no thanks: that revenge...
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A Dictionary of Quotations in Prose: From American and Foreign Authors ...

Anna Lydia Ward - 1889 - 724 pages
...Forgiveness. In revenge, haste is criminal. 4769 Bacon: Moral and Historical Works. Ornamenta Rationalia. Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more...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 :...
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Bacon's Essays, Volume 2

Francis Bacon - 1889 - 298 pages
...pressure of consciences, were commonly inter. essed therein themselves for their own ends. IV JUbmge REVENGE is a kind of wild justice, which the more...nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out. Foi as for the first wrong, it does but offend the law ; but the revenge of that wrong putteth the...
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Verhandlungen des ... Deutschen Juristentages, Volume 21

Deutscher Juristentag - 1890 - 312 pages
...Ьеае4фпеп! Э^оф mag ein roemger beianntea 2Sort oon ^rancié Sacón Ijier ^ßla^ finben: „Kevenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more man's nature...revenge of that wrong putteth the law out of office. " ЗКап beforge тфг, bafj roieber §аи^геф1 unb ЙспфМйа ^ф geltenb тафеп roürben,...
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The Essays Or Counsels, Civil and Moral, of Francis Bacon

Francis Bacon - 1890 - 456 pages
...kind of wild justice a, which the more Im^n's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out : lor as for the first wrong, it doth but offend the law,...revenge of that wrong putteth the law out of office b. ^"Certainly, in taking revenge, a man is but even with his 1 enemy ; but in passing it over, he...
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English Prose: Its Elements, History, and Usage

John Earle - 1890 - 612 pages
...to live in, and not to look on ; ' and again, ' Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.' Any attempt to transpose these separable prepositions would destroy the strength and the terseness...
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Essays: And Wisdom of the Ancients

Francis Bacon - 1891 - 466 pages
...consciences, were commonly interested therein themselves for their own ends. IV. —OF REVENGE. REVEXGE is a kind of wild justice, which the more man's nature...revenge of that wrong, putteth the law out of office. Certainly^jn taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy, but in passing it over, he is superior):...
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Proverbs

William John Deane - 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...nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out. In taking revenge a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over he is superior. It is the...
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Francis Bacon, Poet, Prophet, Philosopher, Versus Phantom Captain ...

William Francis C. Wigston - 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 " is expressed as " seeded " with...
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Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign ...

Rev. James Wood - 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...nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out. ¿incoa. Revenge is an act of passion ; vengeance, of justice. Johnson. Revenge is an inheritance of...
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