 Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out. For as for the first wrong, it doth but offend the law ; but the revenge of that wrong putteth the law out of office.  The Emerald - 30. oldal1806Teljes nézet - Információ erről a könyvről
 | Benjamin G. Lovejoy - 1888 - 306 oldal
...it openeth the gate to good fame, and extinguisheth envy: "Extinctus amabitur idem." \ OF REVENGE. Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out: for as for the first wrong, it doth but offend the law,... | |
 | Anna Lydia Ward - 1889 - 724 oldal
...Historical Works. Ornamenta Rationalia. Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out; for as for the first wrong it dotli but offend the law, but the revenge of that wrong putteth the law out of office. 4770 Bacon :... | |
 | Anna Lydia Ward - 1889 - 720 oldal
...Forgiveness. In revenge, baste is criminal. 4769 Bacon: Moral and Historical Works. Ornamenta Rationalia. Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out; for as for the first wrong it doth but offend the law,... | |
 | William Francis C. Wigston - 1891 - 502 oldal
...VII.") We find Bacon in his Essays using the same simile to illustrate the extirpation of vice by law. " Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which, the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to veed it wet" (" Of Revenge "). And in the following passage, " Pride... | |
 | William John Deane - 1891 - 678 oldal
...men must not take the law into their own hands. " Vengeance is mine, I will repay, saith Jehovah." " Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out. In taking revenge a man is but even with his enemy; but... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1893 - 304 oldal
...(Effays: of Studies.} r REVENGE. Revenge is a kind of wild juftice, which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought Law to weed it out. For as for the firft wrong, it doth but offend the law ; but the revenge of that wrong putteth the law out of office.... | |
 | Rev. James Wood - 1893 - 694 oldal
...justice." It is so, but without this wild austere stock there would be no justice in the world. Burke, Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which, the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out. ¿incoa. Revenge is an act of passion ; vengeance, of justice.... | |
 | Free Religious Association (Boston, Mass.). Meeting - 1894 - 906 oldal
...Bacon, — "As Lord Bacon says, 'Revenge is a kind of wild justice.' " What Lord Bacon does say is, "Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed out." [Applause.] These dexterous quotations are very familiar... | |
 | Alphonse Mariette - 1894 - 402 oldal
...of talent which led to thb glories 12 of Marcngo and Hohenlinden. SIR ARCHIBALD ALISON. ON REVENGE. Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more man's nature runs to,13 the more ought law to weed it 1 Prevailed, regnaient — - plur. — 3 cannot be explained,... | |
 | Maturin Murray Ballou - 1894 - 604 oldal
...you can keep reason above passion, that and watchfulness will be your best defendants. — Newton. Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more man's nature runs to the more ought law to weed it out. — Bacon. Neither is it safe to count upon the weakness... | |
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