 ... in theology may teach his follies, 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...  Oriental Herald and Colonial Review - الصفحة 215المحررون: - 1826عرض كامل - لمحة عن هذا الكتاب
 | Samuel Johnson, John Wight Duff - 1900 - عدد الصفحات: 318
...publication of opinions which that society shall think per... nicious. But this punishment, though it may crush the author, promotes the book ; and it seems...unrestrained because writers may be afterwards censured, 5 than it would be to sleep with doors unbolted because by our laws we can hang a thief. But whatever... | |
 | David George Ritchie - 1903 - عدد الصفحات: 332
...protected 1 Law of the Constitution, ch. vi. 2 Cf. the argument of Dr. Johnson in his Life of Milton : " It seems not more reasonable to leave the right of...sleep with doors unbolted, because by our laws we can hang a thief." Our laws do not, however, oblige the policeman to find out where every man is going... | |
 | John Milton - 1905 - عدد الصفحات: 224
...of England is gone for ever when these attempts (ie attempts at licensing) shall succeed." (HUME.) " It seems not more reasonable to leave the right of...sleep with doors unbolted, because by our laws we can hang a thief." (DR. JOHNSON.) " The danger of such unbounded liberty (of Unlicensed rinting), and... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1907 - عدد الصفحات: 172
...publication of opinions which that society shall 10think pernicious; but this punishment, though it may crush the author, promotes the book; and it seems...sleep with doors unbolted, because by our laws we can hang a thief. 15 But whatever were his engagements, civil _or -.domestic. poetry was never long... | |
 | Horatio Forbes Brown - 1907 - عدد الصفحات: 366
...publication of 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 rights of printing unrestrained, because writers may be afterwards censured, than it would be to sleep... | |
 | 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...sleep with doors unbolted, because by our laws we can hang a thief " State Milton's argument with reference to the effects of licensing, and shew whether... | |
 | Royal Society of Literature (Great Britain) - 1910 - عدد الصفحات: 568
...the publication of opinions which that society shall think pernicious. But this punishment, though it may crush the author, promotes the book, and it seems...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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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...to sleep with doors unbolted because by our laws we can hang a thief '. ' Servile sophistry ', is Haley's comment, quoted by Holt White. Hume (7/uftory,... | |
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