 | Stephen Coleridge - English prose literature - 1923 - 290 pages
...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 sleep with doors unbolted because by our laws we hang a thief." The most celebrated passage in this famous pamphlet I will now quote, and, after all,... | |
 | John Ker Spittal - 1923 - 436 pages
...though it may crush the author, promotes the book ; and it seems not more LIBERTY OF THE PRESS 219 reasonable to leave the right of printing unrestrained,...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... | |
 | Francis Meehan - English literature - 1928 - 764 pages
...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. GOLDSMITH In eighteenth-century England some political movements were especially corrupt, and party... | |
 | Robert Andrews - Reference - 1993 - 1214 pages
..."A Plea for the Art of the Motion Picture" (released as The Birth of a Nation, Prologue, 1915). 12 It seems not more reasonable to leave the right of...unbolted, because by our laws we can hang a thief. SAMUEL JOHNSON (1709-84). English author, lexicographer. Lives of the fnglish Poets, "Milton" (1 779-81),... | |
 | Stephen Miller - Biography & Autobiography - 2001 - 226 pages
...whatever they want but they should be prosecuted if their works prove to be pernicious to society. "It seems not more reasonable to leave the right of...unbolted, because by our laws we can hang a thief." Johnson argues that government has the right to curtail the liberty of the press, but he does not want... | |
 | David G. Ritchie - Civil rights - 2002 - 328 pages
...Life of Milton : " It seems not more reasonable to leave the right of printing unrestrained, hecause writers may be afterwards censured, than it would...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 to, lest one or... | |
 | George Anastaplo - Law - 2005 - 918 pages
...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. [Samuel Johnson, Lives of the British Poets, ed. William Hazlitt (London: Nathaniel Cooke, 1854), 2:23]... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 530 pages
...opinions which the 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... | |
 | 658 pages
...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. So spake Dr. Johnson, for himself and his whole century, faith tempered by prudence, poetic imagination... | |
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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,... 
