 | Jean-Gabriel Peltier, James Adams - Ambigu - 1803 - 494 pages
...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 - Great Britain - 1808 - 518 pages
...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 - Great Britain - 1808 - 514 pages
...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... | |
 | Oratory - 1808 - 542 pages
...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.) - Oratory - 1810 - 516 pages
...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 - Law reports, digests, etc - 1820 - 738 pages
...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 - Censorship - 1823 - 218 pages
...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... | |
 | Trials - 1820 - 742 pages
...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 - Great Britain - 1828 - 598 pages
...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... | |
 | Christianity - 1828 - 604 pages
...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... 
