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 Warner Library - Page 1168edited by - 1917Full view - About this book
| Francis Bacon - 1889 - 298 pages
...pressure of consciences, were commonly inter. essed therein themselves for their own ends. IV JUbmge REVENGE is a kind of wild justice, which the more...nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out. Foi as for the first wrong, it does but offend the law ; but the revenge of that wrong putteth the... | |
| Deutscher Juristentag - 1890 - 312 pages
...Ьеае4фпеп! Э^оф mag ein roemger beianntea 2Sort oon ^rancié Sacón Ijier ^ßla^ finben: „Kevenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more man's nature...revenge of that wrong putteth the law out of office. " ЗКап beforge тфг, bafj roieber §аи^геф1 unb ЙспфМйа ^ф geltenb тафеп roürben,... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1890 - 456 pages
...kind of wild justice a, which the more Im^n's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out : lor as for the first wrong, it doth but offend the law,...revenge of that wrong putteth the law out of office b. ^"Certainly, in taking revenge, a man is but even with his 1 enemy ; but in passing it over, he... | |
| John Earle - 1890 - 612 pages
...to live in, and not to look on ; ' and again, ' Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.' Any attempt to transpose these separable prepositions would destroy the strength and the terseness... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1891 - 466 pages
...consciences, were commonly interested therein themselves for their own ends. IV. —OF REVENGE. REVEXGE is a kind of wild justice, which the more man's nature...revenge of that wrong, putteth the law out of office. Certainly^jn taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy, but in passing it over, he is superior):... | |
| William John Deane - 1891 - 678 pages
...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...nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out. In taking revenge a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over he is superior. It is the... | |
| William Francis C. Wigston - 1891 - 502 pages
...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 " is expressed as " seeded " with... | |
| Rev. James Wood - 1893 - 694 pages
...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...nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out. ¿incoa. Revenge is an act of passion ; vengeance, of justice. Johnson. Revenge is an inheritance of... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1893 - 304 pages
...and rhetoric, able to contend. (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.... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1893 - 342 pages
...pressure of consciences were commonly interested therein themselves for their own ends. IV.— OF REVENGE. REVENGE is a kind of wild justice, which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law 1 Allusion is made to the " caduceus," with which Mercury, the messengsr of the gods, summoned the... | |
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