 | Civil rights - 1795 - 432 pages
...their authority, saith the Viscount St. Albans, and a forbidden writing is thought to be a cert.&in spark of truth that flies up In the faces of them who seek 16 tread it out. When God shakes a kingdom, with strong and healthful commotions, to a general reforming,... | |
 | Benjamin Flower - 1811 - 578 pages
...enhances their authority," saith the Viscount St. Alhans ; " and a forhidden writing is thought to he a certain spark of truth, that flies up in the faces of them who seek to tread it out." This order therefore may prove a nursing mother to sects, hut I shall easily show how it will he a... | |
 | Nathaniel Chapman - Great Britain - 1807 - 484 pages
...a reputation. "The punishment of wits enhances their authority," saith the viscount St. Albans, '. and a forbidden writing is thought to be a certain spark of truth, that flies up in the face of them who seek to tread it out." He then adverts to his visit to the famous Galileo, whom he... | |
 | Nathaniel Chapman - Great Britain - 1807 - 492 pages
...a reputation. " The punishment of wits enhances their authority," saith the viscount St. Albans, " and a forbidden writing is thought to be a certain spark of truth, that flies up in the face of them who seek to tread it out." He then adverts to his visit to the famous Galileo, whom he... | |
 | John Milton - 1809 - 534 pages
...reputation : ' ' the punishing of wits enhances their authority," saith the viscount St. Albans ; " and a forbidden writing is thought to be a certain...up in the faces of them who seek to tread it out." This order therefore may prove a nursing mother to sects, but I shall easily show how it will be a... | |
 | Thomas Erskine Baron Erskine - Freedom of the press - 1810 - 470 pages
...with a reputation: " the punishment of wits enhances their authority, " saith the Viscount St. Albans; and a forbidden. •* writing is thought to be a certain spark of truth, " that flies up in the face of them who seek to tread " it out." He then adverts to his visit to the famous Galileo, whom... | |
 | Thomas Erskine (1st baron.) - 1810 - 478 pages
...a reputation : " the punishment of wits enhances their authority, " saith the Viscount St. Albans ; and a forbidden *' writing is thought to be a, certain spark of truth, *' that flies up in the face of them who seek to tread " it out." He then adverts to his visit to the famous Galileo, whom... | |
 | Harleian miscellany - 1810 - 610 pages
...all standers-by no room to doubt.• ' The punishing of wits enhancestheir authority, and forbidding writing is thought to be a certain spark of truth, that flies up in the face of them who seek to tread it out.' When a man hath been working at the hardest labour in the deep... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1812 - 310 pages
...with a reputation. ' The punishment of wits enhances their authority,' said the Viscount St. Albans, 'and a forbidden writing is thought to be a certain...up in the faces of them who seek to tread it out.' When God shakes a kingdom, with strong and healthful commotions, to a general reforming, it is not... | |
 | Thomas Erskine Baron Erskine - Freedom of the press - 1813 - 634 pages
...punishment of wits enhances • ' their authority, saith the Viscount St. Albans ; and a for" bidden writing is thought to be a certain spark of truth, " that flies up in the face of them who seek to tread it " out." He then adverts to his visit to the famous Galileo, whom... | |
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The punishing of wits enhances their authority," saith the Viscount St. Albans, "and a forbidden writing is thought to be a certain spark of truth that flies up in the faces of them who seek to tread it out. 
