 | Samuel Johnson - 1905 - عدد الصفحات: 530
...censured, than it would be to sleep with doors unbolted, because by our laws we can hang a thief5. 59 But whatever were his engagements, civil or domestick,...collection of his Latin and English poems appeared 6, in which the Allegro and Penseroso 7, with some others, were first published. 60 > He had taken... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1907 - عدد الصفحات: 172
...opinions which that society shall 10think 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. 15 But whatever were his engagements, civil _or -.domestic. poetry was never long out of his thoughts.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1909 - عدد الصفحات: 562
...See Johnson's Pope, §148. 246. 33. Freedom of the press. Johnson was never strongly in its favor. ' It seems not more reasonable to leave the right of printing unrestrained, because writers may be afterward censured, than it would be to sleep with the doors unbolted, because by our laws we can hang... | |
 | University of Calcutta - 1910 - عدد الصفحات: 684
...justice to authors. Why must it, sooner or later, fall into the hands of incompetent men ? Or, ' ' It seems not more reasonable to leave the right of...unbolted, because by our laws we can hang a thief " State Milton's argument with reference to the effects of licensing, and shew whether this criticism... | |
 | Royal Society of Literature (Great Britain) - 1910 - عدد الصفحات: 568
...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 afterwards be censured, than it would be to sleep with doors unbolted because by our laws we can hang... | |
 | Martinus Visser - 1911 - عدد الصفحات: 216
...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...would be to sleep with doors unbolted, because by ours laws we can hang a thief. Dr. Johnson laat de kwestie dus vrijwel onbeslist. leaped forth in the... | |
 | 1912 - عدد الصفحات: 756
...seems no more reasonable to leave the rights of printing unrestrained, because writers may afterward be censured, than it would be to sleep with doors unbolted, because by our laws we can hang a thief." And the other view, namely, that the attempted suppression of a book encourages its circulation, has... | |
 | George Kitchin - 1913 - عدد الصفحات: 492
...Magazine for August 1737 and April 1738. For Johnson's views see Lircs of Posts (1781), i., 158-4. 'It seems not more reasonable to leave the right of...doors unbolted because by our laws we can hang a thief '. ' Servile sophistry ', is Haley's comment, quoted by Holt White. Hume (7/uftory, viii., 312) expresses... | |
 | George Kitchin - 1913 - عدد الصفحات: 492
...Poets (1781), i., 168-4. ' It seems not more reasonable to leave the right of printing uurestrained because writers may be afterwards censured, than it...doors unbolted because by our laws we can hang a thief '. ' Servile sophistry ', is Haley's comment, quoted by Holt White. Hume (Hintory, viii., 313) express**... | |
 | John Ker Spittal - 1923 - عدد الصفحات: 436
...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." To those who wish not to favour the designs of arbitrary power, no such problem is to be found in the... | |
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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,... 
