 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 Cambridge Examiner - Page 4051882Full view - About this book
 | British prose literature - 1821 - 416 pages
...pressure of consciences, were commonly, interested therein themselves for their own ends. IV. OF REVENGE. REVENGE is a kind of wild justice, which the more...but offend the law, but the revenge of that wrong pntteth the taw out of office. Certainly, in taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy ; but... | |
 | David Irving - English language - 1821 - 336 pages
...knowledge of the omnipotent cause, and by these motions, their almighty mover. History of the World. BACON. Revenge is a kind of wild justice ; which the more...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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1824 - 598 pages
...pressure of consciences, were commonly interested therein themselves for their own ends. IV. OF REVENGE. REVENGE is a kind of wild justice, which the more...weed it out. For as for the first wrong, it doth but oftend the law; but the revenge of that wrong putteth the law out of office. Certainly in taking revenge,... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1825 - 550 pages
...of continuity is worse than a corrupt humour. 6. Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out. 7. He that studieth revenge, keepeth his own wounds green. 8. Revengeful persons live and die like... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English prose literature - 1825 - 524 pages
...of continuity is worse than a corrupt humour. 6. Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out. 7. He that studieth revenge, keepeth his own wounds green. 8. Revengeful persons live and die like... | |
 | Saxe Bannister - Aboriginal Australians, Treatment of - 1830 - 558 pages
...revenge to act for justice. To the remark that " revenge is a kind of wild justice," Lord Bacon adds, " which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out." The first part of the maxim is quoted often enough ; \ 19 the second rarely : and the remedy of the... | |
 | 1837 - 352 pages
...nature, and even grudges himsclf the laugh into which he is sometimes betrayed. — Shenstone. 530. Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more...nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out. — Lady Gethin. 531. Progress of Literature and Science. — Literature and science we have already... | |
 | New York (N.Y.) - 1839 - 226 pages
...character and fate;—and what a lesson to all of us, whether in prosperity or in adversity. Revenge. Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law lo weed it out: for. as for the first wrong, it dotli but offend the law. but the revenge of Hint wrong... | |
 | William Brown Galloway - 1837 - 570 pages
...feel as a sort of satisfaction for an injury received. " Revenge," says Lord Bacon, " is a species of wild justice, which, the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out." This is perfectly true, and the converse is equally so, That retributive justice among men is just... | |
 | Books - 1837 - 654 pages
...that the revenge should not exceed the injury in severity. Lord Bacon says, " Revenge is a species of wild justice, which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out." After the enactment of the le.r talionis, or the law that restricted revenge to tooth for tooth, and... | |
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