 And should I at your harmless innocence Melt as I do, yet public reason just, Honour and empire with revenge enlarged, By conquering this new world, compels me now To do what else, though damned, I should abhor." So spake the fiend, and with necessity,...  The Journal of Negro History - Sivu 277muokkaaja - 1920Koko teos - Tietoja tästä kirjasta
 | Octavius Francis Christie - 1928 - 370 sivua
...spending eighteen days in an open boat. Lord Chief Justice Coleridge disallowed it, quoting Milton : "Thus spake the Fiend, and with Necessity, The Tyrant's plea, excused his devilish deeds." 'Collections and Recollections (GWE Russell), p. 195. 'In Whig Society (Countess of Airlie), p. xiv.... | |
 | 1924 - 654 sivua
...1, pp. 1-13. 395, 415; Holdsworth's Hist. Eng. Law, Vol. 2, pp. 17, 27, 30-33, 131, 160, 216. 8"So spake the fiend, and with necessity. The tyrant's...is generally but another name for greed or worse. Ask Belgium. "E. g. the Statute of (1732) 5 Geo. II. C. 7, enacted, Sec 4, "that from and after the... | |
 | 1921 - 110 sivua
...ZOOPHILIST. " Vivisection and its Alleged Utility." The lecturer began by quoting Milton's lines : — " Thus spake the fiend, and with necessity The tyrant's plea, excused his devilish deeds," and went on to say that the wrong-doing is necessary, either for the individual or for the general... | |
 | 1936 - 882 sivua
...that we might save money." I cannot help being reminded of a line I remember in " Paradise Lost " : "So spake the Fiend, and with necessity, the tyrant's plea, excused his devilish deeds." Whatever is necessary in the way of noise in order that they may carry out their operations speedily,... | |
 | 1909 - 502 sivua
...enlarged By conquering this new World — compels me now To do what else, though damned, I should abhor." So spake the Fiend, and with necessity, The tyrant's plea, excused his devilish deeds. Then from his lofty stand on that high tree Down he alights among the sportful herd Of those four-footed... | |
 | Colorado Bar Association - 1924 - 462 sivua
...be necessary. An alleged necessity has, throughout all time, been the apology for wrong. "So spoke the Fiend, and with necessity The tyrant's plea excused his devilish deeds." Let me bo understood as admitting the power of the Senate where It is essential to its own protection... | |
 | Virginia State Bar Association - 1911 - 384 sivua
...above the law, there can be no health. Milton puts the word necessity into an apt mouth when he says : 'So spake the fiend, and with necessity 'The tyrant's plea excused his devilish deeds': And this plea is still the the shibboleth of the descendants of the Prince of Darkness." "The Constitution... | |
 | Gerardus Antonius Maria Janssens, Flor Aarts - 1984 - 290 sivua
...l647) and An Agreement ofihe People (3 Nov., l647), in Woodhouse, op. tit., p. 40l and p. 445. Cf. "So spake the fiend, and with necessity. The tyrant's plea, excused his devilish deeds", PL iv. 393-4. Cromwell's many invocations of Providence and necessity were usually interpreted after... | |
 | Darrel Abel - 1988 - 348 sivua
...fiend-like. Hawthorne did not think that flowers of evil grew unless they were cultivated by human hands: So spake the fiend, and with necessity The tyrant's plea, excused his devilish deeds. (PL 4.39) ,TE3 LI know that so general a distinction is rashly undiscriminating, but 1 hope that it... | |
 | David Armitage, Armand Himy, Quentin Skinner - 1998 - 300 sivua
...Commercial Society, 164y-1776 (Stanford, 1994), p. 82. To do what else though damned I should abhor. So spake the fiend, and with necessity, The tyrant's plea, excused his devilish deeds. (PL, 1v, 388-94) The relationship between republicanism and reason of state was a fraught one, for... | |
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