 | John Milton - 1819 - عدد الصفحات: 484
...reasoable, says Johnson, to leave the Right of Printing unrestrained, because Writers may be afterward censured, than it would be to sleep with doors unbolted, because by our Laws we can hang a thief. This is servile sophistry ; the Authour's illustration of a thief may be turned against himself. To... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - عدد الصفحات: 466
...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, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - عدد الصفحات: 470
...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... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - عدد الصفحات: 302
...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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - عدد الصفحات: 468
...How, Sir ! not damn the Sharper, but the Dice? NOTES. unrestrained, because writers may be afterward censured, than it would be to sleep with doors unbolted, because by our laws we can hang a thief." To which Mr. Hayley answers, " To suffer no book to be published without a licence, is tyranny as absurd,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1823 - عدد الصفحات: 484
...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...and English poems appeared, in which the Allegro and Pcnseroso, with some others, were first published. He had taken a large house in Barbican for the reception... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1823 - عدد الصفحات: 652
...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...of his Latin and English poems appeared, in which theAlfcgro and Pcnseroso, with some others, were first published. He had taken a large house in Barbican... | |
 | James Silk Buckingham - 1826 - عدد الصفحات: 652
...murmurera, and the follies of sceptics ! " Punishment," he continues, " which may crush the author, promotes the book ; and it seems not more reasonable...sleep with doors unbolted, because by our laws we may hang a thief." He considered censorship as affording the only security, though he acknowledges... | |
 | 1826 - عدد الصفحات: 696
...murmurers, and the follies of sceptics ! " Punishment," he continues, " which may crush the author, promotes the book ; and it seems not more reasonable...sleep with doors unbolted, because by our laws we may hang a thief." lie considered censorship as affording the only security, though he acknowledges... | |
 | Thomas Starkie - 1826 - عدد الصفحات: 658
...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...right of printing unrestrained, because writers may be afterward censured, than it would be to sleep with doors unbolted because by our laws we can hang a... | |
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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,... 
