 | 1908 - 792 pages
...these latter that evidence against the Jesuits should l>e sought. " Revenge," as Bacon himself said, "is a kind of wild justice, which the more man's nature...runs to, the more ought law to weed it out. For as to the first wrong, it doth but offend the law ; but the revenge of that wrong putteth the law out... | |
 | Alexander Malcolm Williams - English language - 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...nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out ". 521. A mixed Metaphor is one in which comparisons from different sources are incongruously mingled... | |
 | Joel Hastings Metcalf - Sunday school literature - 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...nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out. — Francis Bacon. Ivan was a Russian peasant, strong, hard-working, and prosperous. Next door to him... | |
 | Alphonso Gerald Newcomer, Alice Ebba Andrews - English literature - 1910 - 778 pages
...another man 's than of his own. OF REVENGE Revenge is a kind of wild justice; which the more man 's g ory} w蹍H H[8E L . ] [^ ' ζ J 7 ~Q J i : 憆 ) XK office.2" Cer28 who (antecedent Is they) 27 vain-glorious 28 See Mark Ix. 40 ; Matthew xxiil. 27. 2»... | |
 | Alphonso Gerald Newcomer - English literature - 1910 - 776 pages
...is a kind of wild justice; which the more man 's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it cut. n 뛓 "\ 1910 Scott, Foresman...company"7 Newcomer Alphonso Gerald" Alphonso Ger office.2^ Cer20 with difficulty 26 who (antecedent Is 21 cornering they) 22 ie. by law 27 vain-glorious... | |
 | George Walter Steeves - Philosophers - 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...nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out." And again, his Meditations had led him to the sayings of Seneca, and he opens the Essay Of Adversity... | |
 | Literature, Ancient - 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...the first wrong, it doth but offend the law; but the at that wrong putted die law art of afice m ulung me&se. a man a but r«en «nfii ho enemy ; bat as.... | |
 | William Ritchie Sorley - Conduct of life - 1911 - 168 pages
...needing accordingly all the greater restraint by law : " The more a man's nature runs to [revenge], the more ought law to weed it out. For as for the...revenge of that wrong putteth the law out of office." In this passage Bacon writes as a lawyer, not, certainly, as an historian of custom. Revenge exists... | |
 | Percy Waldron Long - English language - 1915 - 156 pages
...new aspects.— EMERSON, The Method of Nature. Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it...revenge of that wrong putteth the law out of office.— BACON, Of Revenge. F List Here is the brevity, the good taste, the light touch, the neat epigram, the... | |
 | John Miller Dow Meiklejohn - English language - 1920 - 520 pages
...either of the passages in Question 1 or 2. 8. "Revenge is a kind of wild justice which the more men's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out....man is but even with his enemy, but in passing it by he is superior, for it is a prince's part to pardon." — Bacon. 9. (a) Mention four of the most... | |
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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. 
