 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
 | John Locke - Liberty - 1764 - 438 pages
...are fo foolim, that .they take care to avoid what mif3 chiefs chiefs may be done them bypole-cafs, or foxes; but are content, nay, think it fafety, to be devoured by lions. -ur.i ', .', • ,.; , §. 94. But whatever flatterers may talk to amufe people's underftandings,,... | |
 | John Locke - Liberty - 1821 - 536 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. §. 94. But whatever flatterers may talk to amuse people's understandings,... | |
 | Michael Bernard Buckley - 1868 - 436 pages
...violence and oppression of their supreme ruler, to fools, ' who take care to avoid what mischief maybe done them by polecats or foxes, but are content, nay, think it safety to be devoured by lions,'* and illustrates this doctrine with the following example : — '... | |
 | Hippolyte Adolphe Taine - 1871 - 570 pages
...does it. . . .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.6 The only way whereby any one divests himself of his natural liberty,... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - English literature - 1871 - 568 pages
...does it. . . .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. 8 The only way whereby any one divests himself of his natural liberty,... | |
 | Biography - 1883 - 836 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... | |
 | Thomas Fowler - 1883 - 224 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 - 1884 - 332 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,... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - English literature - 1885 - 1108 pages
.... . .This is to think, that men are so foolish, that they take care to avoid what mischiefs may ba done them by polecats or foxes ; but are content, nay think it safety, to be devoured by lions.6 The only way whereby any one divests himself of his natural liberty,... | |
 | John Morley - Authors, English - 1894 - 618 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... | |
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