| Frederick Alexander Manchester, William Frederic Giese - 1926 - 924 σελίδες
...— Here am I with this cow and this grass; what being can enjoy better felicity?" 21 [At a dinner.] I introduced the subject of toleration. JOHNSON: "Every society has a right to preserve public peace and order, and therefore has a good right to prohibit the propagation of opinions which... | |
| Alan Lawson Maycock - 1927 - 334 σελίδες
...actions of men in this 1 Dr. Johnson hit this particular nail on the head with his usual accuracy. Johnson. Every society has a right to preserve publick...propagation of opinions which have a dangerous tendency. . . . Mayo. I am of opinion, Sir, that every man is entitled to liberty of conscience in religion.... | |
| Edith M. Phelps - 1927 - 206 σελίδες
...Execrable villainy an act of Public Justice, and entitling the Holy Ghost to Treason. SAMUEL JOHNSON 4 I introduced the subject of toleration. JOHNSON. "Every society has a right to preserve public peace and order, and therefore has a good right to prohibit the propagation of opinions which... | |
| Ronald Arbuthnott Knox - 1928 - 296 σελίδες
...the interlocutors, turn and turn about, as in a play. A typical instance will begin as follows : " I introduced the subject of toleration. JOHNSON. Every...society has a right to preserve publick peace " and so on. It is characteristic of this document that it records no events, only scattered utterances or... | |
| Philip Steele - 1999 - 64 σελίδες
...control the country and to protect his reputation. •BHK I Every society has a right to preserve public peace and order, and therefore has a good right to...propagation of opinions which have a dangerous tendency. Samuel Johnson, English writer (1709-84) I Censorship is any attempt to limit or prevent the free exchange... | |
| John T. Lynch - 2003 - 244 σελίδες
...the Practice of writing Pamphlets became more general." Boswell, however, records a contrary opinion: Every society has a right to preserve publick peace...this right, is using an inadequate word: it is the soc1ety for which the magistrate is agent. He may be morally or theologically wrong in restraining... | |
| Richard Pipes - 2007 - 242 σελίδες
...ed. (St. Petersburg, 1906), 186. Compare with Samuel Johnson: "Any society has a right to preserve peace and order, and therefore has a good right to prohibit the propagation of opinions that have a dangerous tendency." Cited in Maurice Baring, Have You Anything to Declare? (London, 1950),... | |
| Society of Medical History of Chicago - 1916 - 364 σελίδες
...bit of wisdom from Dr. Samuel Johnson is apt. He said : "Every society has a right to preserve public peace and order, and therefore has a good right to...propagation of opinions which have a dangerous tendency." Dr. Eauch was greatly disheartened because of the decision against him, and from that time on the enforcing... | |
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