 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 - Page 301806Full view - About this book
 | 1905 - 330 pages
...eliminate them, you cannot escape them. You can diminish them by dominating them.— BATTEN'S Wedge. Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more man's nature runs to the more ought law to weed it out. — BACON. Riches are not an end of life, but an instrument... | |
 | 1898 - 592 pages
...to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other." "Revenge is a kind of wild justice; which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out." — Then follows without pause a wealth of wisdom upon... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1908 - 272 pages
...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 to weed it out. For as for the first wrong, it doth out offend the law; but the revenge of that wrong putteth the law out of office. Certainly, in taking... | |
 | Joel Hastings Metcalf - 1909 - 178 pages
...I say not unto thee, Until seven times; but, Until seventy times seven. — MATTHEW xviii. 21, 22. Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out. — Francis Bacon. Ivan was a Russian peasant, strong,... | |
 | Alexander Malcolm Williams - 1909 - 454 pages
...suitor's drinking habits), " Pish not, with this melancholy bait, for this fool gudgeon, this opinion", "Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out ". 521. A mixed Metaphor is one in which comparisons from... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1909 - 368 pages
...pressure of consciences, were commonly interessed 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 to weed it out. For as for the first wrong, it doth but offend the law;... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - 1909 - 578 pages
...it openeth the gate to good fame, and extinguisheth envy. Extincius amabitur idem.' IV. 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;... | |
 | George Walter Steeves - 1910 - 272 pages
...with apt quotation and metaphor. His Essay Of Revenge is a good illustration of this, which begins : " Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out." And again, his Meditations had led him to the sayings... | |
 | 1911 - 208 pages
...to find another who can say as much in as few words as Sir Francis says in one of his short papers. 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;... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Veterans' Affairs - 1957 - 72 pages
...amount available." V We denied a rule of law to Germany. Over 300 years ago, Francis Bacon observed : "Revenge is a kind of wild justice: which the more man's nature runs to, the me. re ought law to weed it out. For as for the first wrong, it doth but offend the law,... | |
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