 | 1857 - 628 sider
...Robert Filmer after he had been refuted by Mr. Locke, but shall it be said that he might have maintained an action for defamation against that great philosopher, who was labouring to enlighten and to ameliorate mankind ? We really must not cramp observations upon authors and their works. Every man... | |
 | Thomas Starkie - 1813 - 710 sider
...have bought the works of Sir Robert Filmer, after he had been refuted by Mr. Locke ? But shall it be said, that he might have sustained an action for defamation...observations upon authors and their works; they should be liable to criticism, to exposure, and even to ridicule, if their compositions be ridiculous; otherwise,... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1814 - 572 sider
...nave bought the works of Sir Robert Filmer after he had been re. futed by Mr. Locke ? But shall it be said that he might have sustained an action for defamation against that great philosopher, who W»s labouring to enlighten and ameliorate mankind ? We really must not cramp observations upon authors... | |
 | Francis Ludlow Holt - 1816 - 340 sider
...science. That publication, therefore, I shall never consider as a libel, which has but shall it be said that he might have sustained an action for defamation...observations upon authors and their works. They should be liable to criticism, to exposure, and eveu to ridicule, if their compositions be ridiculous; otherwise... | |
 | Thomas Starkie - 1826 - 658 sider
...have bought the works of Sir Robert Filmer, after he had been refuted by Mr. Locke ? But shall it be said, that he might have sustained an action for defamation...observations upon authors and their works ; they should be liable to criticism, to exposure, and even to ridicule, if their compositions be ridiculous ; otherwise,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1827 - 650 sider
...have bought the works of Sir Robert Filmer, after he had been refuted by Mr. Locke ? But shall it be said that he might have sustained an action for defamation...observations upon authors and their works. They should be liable to criticism, exposure, and even ridicule, if their compositions be ridiculous ; otherwise,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1827 - 648 sider
...have bought the works of Sir Robert Filmer, after he had been refuted by Mr. Locke ? But shall it be said that he might have sustained an action for defamation...observations upon authors and their works. They should be liable to criticism, exposure, and even ridicule, if their compositions be ridiculous ; otherwise,... | |
 | John Read (maker to the army.) - 1828 - 622 sider
...have bought the works of Sir Robert Filmer, after he had been refuted by Mr. Locke ? But shall it be said that he might have sustained an action for defamation...observations upon authors and their works. They should be liable to criticism, to exposure, and even to ridicule, if their compositions be ridiculous, otherwise... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of Common Pleas, John Bayly Moore - 1828 - 668 sider
...absque injurid. Where is the liberty of the press, if an action can be maintained on such principles ? We really must not cramp observations upon authors and their works. They should be liable to criticism, to exposure, and even to ridicule, if their compositions be ridiculous; otherwise,... | |
 | Charles Petersdorff - 1831 - 598 sider
...compositions? Who would have bought the work» of Sir RP after he had been refuted by Mr, L. ? but shall it be said that he might have sustained an action for defamation...enlighten and ameliorate mankind? We really must not cramp observati.-ns upon authors and their works. They should be liable, to criticism, to exposure, and even... | |
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We really must not cramp observations upon authors and their works. They should be liable to criticism, to exposure, and even to ridicule, if their compositions be ridiculous... 
