 | Jean-Gabriel Peltier, James Adams - 1803 - 494 Seiten
...practice on my own feelings —It would be an outrage to my frier.d—It would be an affront to you—It would be an insult to humanity. No ! Better, ten thousand...better, would it be that every press in the world were burnt, that the very use of letters-were abolished, that we were returned to the honest ignorance of... | |
 | Nathaniel Chapman - 1808 - 518 Seiten
...I cannot pursue the strain of interrogation. It is too much. It would be a violence which I cannot practise on my own feelings. It would be an outrage...better, would it be that every press in the world were burnt, that the very use of letters were abolished, that we were returned to the honest ignorance of... | |
 | Nathaniel Chapman - 1808 - 514 Seiten
...humanity. No! Better, ten thousand times better, would it be that every press in the world were burnt, that the very use of letters were abolished, that...ignorance of the rudest times, than that the results of civilisation should be made subservient to the purposes of barbarism, than that literature should be... | |
 | 1808 - 542 Seiten
...pn my own feelings—It would be an outrage to my friend—It would be an affront to you—It wou'd be an insult to humanity, No.' Better, ten thousand...better, would it be that every press in the world were burnt, that the very use of letters were abolished, that we were returned to the honesf: ignorance... | |
 | Thomas Browne (LL.D.) - 1810 - 516 Seiten
...pursue the strain of interrogation! it is too much! It would be a violence which I cannot practice on my own feelings — It would be an outrage to my friend — It would be an affront to you — It would be an insult to humanity, No ! Better, ten thousand times better, would... | |
 | Thomas Bayly Howell, Thomas Jones Howell - 1820 - 738 Seiten
...cannot pursue the strain of interrogation ! it is too much ! It would be a violence which I cannot practise on my own feelings — It would be an outrage to my friend — It would be an affront to you — It would be an insult to humanity. JVo/ Better, ten thousand times better, would... | |
 | Leicester Stanhope Earl of Harrington - 1823 - 218 Seiten
...said Sir James Mackintosh, ' that every Press in the world was burnt, that the very use of letters was abolished, that we were returned to the honest ignorance...times, than that the results of civilization should be thus made subservient to the purposes of despotism.' Hitherto a Free Press had only existed in the... | |
 | 1820 - 742 Seiten
...humanity. JVb/ Better; ten thousand times better, would it'be-ihat-every press in the world were burnt, that the very use of letters were abolished, that we- were returned to the honest ignorance of Ihe rudest times — than that the results of civilizationshould be made subservient to the purposes... | |
 | James Silk Buckingham - 1828 - 598 Seiten
...ten-thousand times better,' says Sir James Mackintosh, ' would it be that every press in the world were burnt, that the very use of letters were abolished, that...ignorance of the rudest times — than that the results of civilisation should be made subservient to the purposes of barbarism — than that literature should... | |
 | 1828 - 604 Seiten
...ten-thousand times better,' says Sir James Mackintosh, ' would it be that every press in the world were burnt, that the very use of letters were abolished, that...ignorance of the rudest times — than that the results of civilisation should be made subservient to the purposes of barbarism — than that literature should... | |
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Better, ten thousand times better, would it be that every press in the world were burnt, that the very use of letters were abolished, that we were returned to the honest ignorance of the rudest times, than that the results of civilisation should be made... 
