 | English literature - 1771 - 522 pages
...his argument to that trial." Nor is wliat old Donne the divine fays unworthy attention. " There maybe many cafes, where a man may do his country good, and...under, a judiciary accufation, there is no way but the extraordinary method of accufation. Sealed letters, in the Star-chamber have, now-a-days, been judged... | |
 | Jacob D. Wheeler - Criminal law - 1825 - 612 pages
...the Star Chamber. " There be many cases," he observes, " where a man may do his country good service, by libelling ; for where a man is either too great,...vices too general to be brought under a judiciary accusation, there is no way but this extraordinary method of accusation. Sealed letters in the Star... | |
 | Reuben Percy - Anecdotes - 1826 - 384 pages
...LIBELS. Dr. Donne says, " there may be many cases where a person may do his country good and service by libelling ; for where a man is either too great, or his vices too general, to be brought under judiciary accusation, there is no "way but this extraordinary method of accusation; and I have heard,... | |
 | John Donne - 1839 - 588 pages
...that there may be cases, where one may do his country good service, by libelling against a live man. For, where a man is either too great, or his vices too general, to be brought under a judiciary accusation, * Probably Sir H. Goodyere ; written when Donne was in Germany. — ED. there is uo way,... | |
 | John Donne, Henry Alford - Sermons - 1839 - 604 pages
...that there may be cases, where one may do his country good service, by libelling against a live man. For, where a man is either too great, or his vices too general, to be brought under a judiciary accusation, * Probably Bir II. Goodyere ; written when Donne waa in Germany.— ED. there is no way,... | |
 | John Donne, Henry Alford - English poetry - 1839 - 582 pages
...that there may be cases, where one may do his country good service, by libelling against a live man. For, where a man is either too great, or his vices too general, to be brought under a judiciary accusation, * Probably Sir H. Goodyero ; written when Donne was in Germany.— ED. there is no way,... | |
 | William Johnson, New York (State). Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1849 - 866 pages
...the Star Chamber. " There be many cases," he observes, " where a man may do his country good service, by libelling; for where a man is either too great,...vices too general to be brought under a judiciary accusation, there is no way but this extraordinary method of accusation. Sealed letters in the Star... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - 1899 - 362 pages
...that there may be cases where one may do his country good service by libelling against a live man ; for where a man is either too great, or his vices too general to be brought under a judiciary accusation, there is no way but this extraordinary accusing, which we call libelling, and I have heard... | |
 | John Donne - Poets, English - 1910 - 350 pages
...cases, where one one may do his Countrey good service, by j , «'? | libelling against a live man. For, where a man is either too great, or his Vices too generall, to be brought under a judiciary accusation, there is no way, but this extraordinary accusing,... | |
 | Walter Lawson Wilder - Biography & Autobiography - 1913 - 372 pages
...chamber. There be many cases,' he observes, 'where a man may do his country good service by libeling; for where a man is either too great or his vices too general to be brought under a judiciary accusation, there is no way but this extraordinary method of accusation.' • • • "It appears clear,... | |
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... then have wrought upon him ; and they might have testified that the authors had meant to mend him, but now they can have no honest pretence. I dare say to you, where I am not easily misinterpreted, that there may be cases where one may do his country... 
