 | Tobias George Smollett - 1848 - 566 страница
...a trembling hand ; lest I destroy the body, lest I injure the eye, upon which it is apt to appear. If the stage becomes at any time licentious, if a...particular man, the king's courts are open : the law is sufficient to punish the offender. If poets and players are to be restrained, let them be restrained... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - 1848 - 568 страница
...a trembling hand ; lest I destroy the body, lest I injure the eye, upon which it is apt to appear. If the stage becomes at any time licentious, if a...particular man, the king's courts are open : the law is sufficient to punish the offender. If poets and players are to be restrained, let them be restrained... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - 1853 - 764 страница
...examples of persons having been punished for things less criminal than cither of the two pieces I have time licentious, if a play appears to be a libel upon...particular man, the king's courts are open, the law is sufficient for punishing the offender ; and in this case the person injured has a singular advantage,... | |
 | George Godfrey Cunningham - 1853 - 518 страница
...destroy the body, lest I injure the eye upon which it is apt to appear. If the stage becomes at any lime licentious, if a play appears to be a libel upon the...any particular man, the king's courts are open, the laws are sufficient for punishing the offender; and, in this case, the person injured has a singular... | |
 | David Hume - 1854 - 448 страница
...with a trembling hand ; lest I destroy the body, lest I injure the eye on which it is apt to appear. If the stage becomes at any time licentious, if a play appears to be a libel on the government or on any particular man, the king's courts are open ; the law is sufficient to punish... | |
 | David Hume - 1859 - 250 страница
...with a trembling hand; lest I destroy the body, lest I injure the eye, upon which it is apt to appear. If the stage becomes at any time licentious, if a...libel upon the government, or upon any particular 256 THE HISTORY OF GREAT BRITAIN. man, tTie king's eourts are open; the law is suffieient to punish... | |
 | George Godfrey Cunningham - 1863 - 818 страница
...destroy the body, lest I injure the eye upon which it is apt to appear. If the stage becomes at any lime licentious, if a play appears to be a libel upon the...any particular man, the king's courts are open, the laws are sufficient for punishing the offender; and, in this case, the person injured has a singular... | |
 | David Hume - 1876 - 742 страница
...upon which it is apt to appear. If the sUgo becomes at any time licentious, if a play appears to bo a libel upon the government, or upon any particular man, the king's courts are open; the law is sufficient to punish tbe offender. If poets and players arc to be restrained, let them be restrained... | |
 | James Edward Murdoch - 1880 - 532 страница
...with a trembling hand, lest I destroy the body, lest I injure the eye upon which it is apt to appear. If the stage becomes at any time licentious, if a...particular man, the king's courts are open, the law is sufficient for punishing the offender ; and in this case the person injured has a singular advantage... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - 1892 - 582 страница
...Pasquin, a comedy. f King Charles I., a tragedy. lest I injure the eye upon which it is apt to appear. If the stage becomes at any time licentious, if a...particular man, the King's Courts are open, the law is sufficient for punishing the offender ; and in this case the person injured has a singular advantage,... | |
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Licentiousness is the alloy of liberty: it is an ebullition, an excrescence; it is a speck upon the eye of the political body, which I can never touch but with a gentle, with a trembling hand, lest I destroy the body, lest I injure the eye upon which... 
