...follies, there can be no religion. The remedy against these evils is to punish the authors; for it is yet allowed that every society may punish, though...not more reasonable to leave the right of printing uurestrained because writers may be afterward censured, than it would be to sleep with doors unbolted...

...innovators, the complainte of murmurera, and the follies of sceptics ! " Punishment," he continues, " which may crush the author, promotes the book ; and it seems...afterwards censured, than it would be to sleep with doors unbolted, because by our laws we may hang a thief." He considered censorship as affording the...

...innovators, the complaints of murmurers, and the follies of sceptics ! " Punishment," he continues, " which may crush the author, promotes the book ; and it seems...afterwards censured, than it would be to sleep with doors unbolted, because by our laws we may hang a thief." lie considered censorship as affording the...

...that " it is not more reasonable to have the liberty of writing unrestrained, because writers may be censured, than it would be to sleep with our doors...unbolted, because, by our laws, we can hang a thief." But is it, then, a hopeless problem in legislation, to discover some mode of checking the abuse of...

...follies, there can be no religion. The remedy against these evils is to punish the authors, for it is yet allowed, that every society may punish, though...afterwards censured, than it would be to sleep with doors unbolted, because by our laws we can hang a thief." The most satisfactory refutation which can...

...follies, there can be no religion. Tne remedy against these evils is to punish the authors ; for it is yet allowed that every society may punish, though...reasonable to leave the right of printing unrestrained 'jecause writers may be afterwards censured, han it would be to sleep with doors unbolted >ecause by...

...follies, there can be no religion. The remedy against these evils is to punish the authors ; for it is afterwards be censured, than it would be to sleep with doors unbolted, because by our laws we can hang...

...follies, there can be no religion. T"he remedy against these evils is to punish the authors ; for it is nd such as no figures or icence can reconcile to the...NEITHER DEAD NOR ALIVE. Then down I laid my head Down doors unbolted because by our laws we can hang a thief. But, whatever were his engagements, civil or...

...teach his follies, there can be no religion." On the whole, he comes to the grave conclusion, that " it seems not more reasonable to leave the right of...unbolted, because by our laws we can hang a thief." These prejudices of Johnson it seemed needful to notice, not only as they were deeply ingrained in...

...follies, there can be no religion. The remedy against these evils is to punish the authors; for it is yet allowed that every society may punish, though...afterwards censured, than it would be to sleep with doors unbolted, because by our laws we can hang a thief. But whatever were his engagements, civil or...