 This is to think that men are so foolish that they take care to avoid what mischiefs may be done them by polecats or foxes, but are content, nay, think it safety, to be devoured by lions.  Miscellaneous Tracts - Page 126by Arthur O'Leary - 1781 - 397 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - 1902 - 678 pages
...by impunity. This is to think that men are so foolish, that they take care to avoid what mischiefs may be done them by pole-cats or foxes, but are content, nay, think it safety, to be devoured by lions." In these and some of the following strictures, he seems to have in... | |
 | John Locke - Liberty - 1905 - 198 pages
...licentious by impunity. This is to think that men are so foolish that they take care to avoid what mischiefs may be done them by polecats or foxes, but are content, nay, think it safety, to be devoured by lions. 94. But. whatever flatterers may talk to amuse people's understandings,... | |
 | William John Courthope - English poetry - 1905 - 502 pages
...licentious with impunity. This is to think men are so foolish that they take care to avoid what mischiefs may be done them by polecats or foxes, but are content, nay, think it safety, to be devoured by lions." l WThe Whig principle after the Revolution of 1688 was not only embodied... | |
 | Annie Barnett, Lucy Dale - English literature - 1912 - 268 pages
...licentious by impunity. This is to think that men are so foolish that they take care to avoid what mischiefs may be done them by polecats or foxes, but are content, nay, think it safety, to be devoured by Lions. But, whatever flatterers may talk to amuse people's understandings,... | |
 | Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Political science - 1918 - 270 pages
...of Rousseau's 'general to think that men are so foolish that they take care to avoid what mischiefs may be done them by polecats or foxes, but are content, nay think it safety, to be devoured by lions' (Civil Government, II. § 93). Rousseau's criticism (C.5. I. v.).... | |
 | Sir William Searle Holdsworth - Law - 1924 - 758 pages
...licentious by impunity. This is to think that men are so foolish that they take care to avoid what mischiefs may be done them by polecats or foxes, but are content, nay, think it safety, to be devoured by lions," Locke, op. cit. Bk. ii § 93. 2 Ibid % 142. 'Above 284 n. 4; cp.... | |
 | John Locke - Liberty - 1967 - 548 pages
...by Im3o punity. This is to think that Men are so foolish that they take care to avoid what Mischiefs may be done them by Pole-Cats, or Foxes, but are content, nay think it Safety, to be devoured by Uons. §93 7-1 5 Compare t, § i36 note and references. 3i This whole paragraph,... | |
 | Reginald James White - History - 1967 - 308 pages
...and security: 'This is to think that men are so foolish that they take care to avoid what mischiefs may be done them by polecats or foxes, but are content, nay, think it safety, to be devoured by lions.' And then again: 'He that thinks absolute power purifies men's blood,... | |
 | David P. Gauthier - Philosophy - 1969 - 234 pages
...licentious by impunity. This is to think that men are so foolish that they take care to avoid what mischiefs may be done them by polecats or foxes, but are content, nay, think it safety, to be devoured by lions.2 ' John Locke, op. cit., section 90. 1 Ibid., section 01. Locke's... | |
 | John Locke - Liberty - 1947 - 356 pages
...licentious by impunity. This is to think that men are so foolish that they take care to avoid what mischiefs may be done them by polecats or foxes, but are content, nay, think it safety, to be devoured by lions. 94. But whatever flatterers may talk to amuse people's understandings,... | |
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