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" 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 Works of Lord Bacon: With an Introductory Essay - Page 262
by Francis Bacon - 1838
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The Essays of Francis Bacon

Francis Bacon - 1901 - 312 pages
...themselves, for their owne ends. IV. OF REVENGE. REVENGE is a kinde of Wilde Justice; which the more Mans Nature runs to, the more ought Law to weed it out....even with his Enemy ; But in passing it over, he is Superiour : For it is a Princes part to Pardon. And Salomon, I am sure, saith, // is the glory of a...
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Chambers's Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A History Critical ..., Volume 1

Robert Chambers, David Patrick - Authors, English - 1901 - 862 pages
...remembrance of death.' That ' Of Revenge ' gives a famous definition : ' Revenge is a wild kind of Conquest of the Normans it was the Anglesaxon, and...the Walsh, or as others affirme the Cornish : I for ' Of Gardens ' he says : ' God Almighty first planted a garden ; and indeed it is the purest of human...
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The Dial, Volumes 30-32

Francis Fisher Browne, Waldo Ralph Browne, Scofield Thayer, Marianne Moore - American literature - 1901 - 974 pages
...Mr. Christopher St. John's novel, " The Crimson Weed," takes its text from one of Bacon's essays. " Revenge is a kind of wild justice which the more man's...nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out." It is this crimson weed of vengeance, growing up in the life of a man, the child of dishonor, that...
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Chamber's Cyclopædia of English Literature, Volume 1

Robert Chambers - English literature - 1902 - 868 pages
...remembrance of death.' That ' Of Revenge ' gives a famous definition : ' Revenge is a wild kind of Vm ' Of Gardens ' he says : ' God Almighty first planted a garden ; and indeed it is the purest of human...
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Familiar Quotations: A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced ...

Quotations - 1903 - 1186 pages
...the dark; uiul iw tluit nutural fear in children is increased with talos, 80 is tho other. Of Death. Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more...nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out. OfEevenge. It was a high speech of Sonera (after the manner of the Stoics), that " The good things...
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Familiar Quotations: A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced ...

John Bartlett - Quotations - 1903 - 1188 pages
...the dark ; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other. Of Death. Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more...nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it Out Of Revenge. It was a high speech of Seneca (after the manner of the Stoics), that " The good things...
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Thoughts that Inspire, Volume 1

Maxims - 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...nature runs to the more ought law to weed it out. — BACON. Riches are not an end of life, but an instrument of life. — BEECHER. Riches have wings,...
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University Chronicle, Volume 1

United States - 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...nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out." — Then follows without pause a wealth of wisdom upon two or three aspects of the matter in hand,...
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The Essays

Francis Bacon - 1908 - 340 pages
...righteousness of God. 4 how 8 inculcated 6 deeds " interested IV OF REVENGE REVENGE is a kinde of Wilde' Justice, which the more Man's Nature runs to, the...but the Revenge of that wrong putteth the Law out of Office8. Certainly, in taking Revenge, A Man is but even with his 5 Enemy; But in passing it over,...
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The Essays of Francis Bacon

Francis Bacon - Essays - 1908 - 272 pages
...perruaded pressure of consciences, were commonly interessed 31 therein themselves for their own ends. IV OF REVENGE REVENGE is a kind of wild justice; which the...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...
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