 | Kolachelam Rao S. - 1986 - 342 pages
...with a trembling hand ; lest I destroy the body, lest I injure the eye upon which it is apt to appear. If the stage becomes at any time licentious, if a...a libel upon the Government or upon any particular person, the king's courts are open ; the law is sufficient to punish the offender. If poets and playrrs... | |
 | John Palmer - Theater - 1913 - 320 pages
...what may appear, either by words or the representation, to be blasphemous, seditious, or immoral. ... If the stage becomes at any time licentious, if a...particular man, the King's courts are open, the law is sufficient for punishing the offender. ' ' Moreover, urged Lord Chesterfield, if the law were not sufficient... | |
 | Henry Fielding - Great Britain - 2003 - 824 pages
...with a trembling Hand, lest I destroy the Body, lest I injure the Eye upon which it is apt to appear. If the Stage becomes at any Time licentious, if a...any particular Man, the King's Courts are open, the Laws [sic] is sufficient for punishing the Offender; and in this Case the Person injured has a singular... | |
 | John McCormick, Mairi MacInnes - Political Science - 2006 - 400 pages
...with a trembling Hand, lest I destroy the Body, lest I injure the Eye upon which it is apt to appear. If the Stage becomes at any Time licentious; if a...upon the Government, or upon any particular Man, the Kings Courts are open, the Laws are sufficient for punishing the Offender; and in this Case the Person... | |
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Licentiousness is the alloy of liberty: it is an ebullition, an excrescence; it is a speck upon the eye of the political body, which I can never touch but with a gentle, with a trembling hand, lest I destroy the body, lest I injure the eye upon which... 
