... enjoy, is liberty. But every good in this life has its alloy of evil. 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... Letters: Miscellanies - Side 5af Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - 1892Fuld visning - Om denne bog
| Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords - 1742 - 462 sider
...Body, which I can never touch but with a gentle, with a trembling Hand, left I deftroy the Body, left I injure the Eye upon which it is apt to appear. If...a Play appears to be a Libel upon the Government, pr upon any particular Man, the King's Courts are open, the Law is fufficient for punching the Offender... | |
| Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords - 1742 - 460 sider
...Body, which I can never touch bet with a gentle, with a trembling Hand, left I deftroy the Body, left I injure the Eye upon which it is apt to appear. If theSttge becomes at any time licentioal, if a Play appears to be a Libel upon the Government, or upon... | |
| 1774 - 846 sider
...with a trembling hand, left I injure the body ; leit I hurt the eye upon which is is apt to appsar. " If the Stage becomes at any time licentious ; if a...particular man, the King's courts are open, the law is fufficient to punifh the offender: If Poets and Players are to be restrained, let them be retrained... | |
| British Plutarch - 1776 - 350 sider
...hand, left 1 deftroy the body, left I injure the eye upon which it is apt to appeal'. If the ftage becomes at any time licentious ; if a play appears...any particular man, the king's courts are open, the laws are fufficient for punifhing the offender, and, in this cafe, the perfon injured has a lingular... | |
| Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - 1779 - 490 sider
...body, which I can never touch but with a gentle, with a trembling hand, left I deftroy the body, left I injure the eye upon which it is apt to appear. If...particular man, the king's courts are open, the law. is fufficient for pun itbing the offender; and in this cai the perfon injured has a fingular advantage,... | |
| Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - 1779 - 490 sider
...body, which I can never touch but with a gentle, with a trembling hand, left I deftroy the body, left I injure the eye upon which it is apt to appear. If the ftage becomes at any time licentious, if a play appears to be a libel upon the government, or upon... | |
| 1791 - 316 sider
...body, which I can never touch but with a gentle, with a trembling hand, left I deftioy the body, left I injure the eye upon which it is apt to appear. If the ftage becomes at any time licentious ; if a play appears to be a libel upon the government, or upon... | |
| Tobias George Smollett - 1793 - 376 sider
...hand, left I deftroy the body ; left I " injore the eye upon which it is apt to appear. " If the ftage becomes at any time licentious , if " a play appears...particular man, the King's courts " are open : the law is fufficient to punifh the " offender. If poets and players are to be reftrained " let them be reftrained... | |
| James Thomas Kirkman - 1799 - 510 sider
...which* I Can never touch, but with a gentle, with a trembling hand, left I deftroy the body ; left I injure the eye, upon which it is apt to appear....particular man, the King's Courts are open-; the law is fuffioient for punching the offender ; and, in this cafe, the perfon injured has a fingular advantage;... | |
| Tobias Smollett - 1800 - 594 sider
...the body, left I injure the eye, upon J x " which it is apt to appear. If the ftage becomes JT. '.' at any time licentious, if a play appears to be a " libel upon the government, or upon any particu- I " lar man, the King's courts are open ; the law is " fufficient to punifh the offender.... | |
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