 | Frederick Butler - 1821 - 474 pages
...in France and England, but also in America. The doctrine of" It does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods, or no God. It neither picks uny pocket nor breaks my leg," was not peculiar to our illustrious author ; it had prevailed in France... | |
 | 1787 - 564 pages
...extend to fuch acts only at arc injurious to others. But it docs me no injury for my neighbour to fay there are twenty Gods, or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my lep. IF it be laid, his teftirnony in a court of jufHce cannot be relied on, reject it then, and let... | |
 | South Carolina. Court of Appeals, James Albert Strobhart - 1848 - 616 pages
...hesitate long in pushing the argument as far as he does, by saying, as he does, that "in its exercise, it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty Gods, or no God." While the argument rests only in words, it would be so evanescent that it might be no injury. But when... | |
 | James McFarlane Mathews - 1851 - 286 pages
...hesitate long in pushing the argument as far as he does by saying, as he does, that in its exercise 'it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty Gods, or no God.' While the argument rests only in words, it would be so evanescent that it might be no injury. But when... | |
 | Henry Stephens Randall - 1858 - 698 pages
...God. The legitimate powers of government exltnd to »MC/I acts only as are injurious to others. £ut it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gnds, or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor bnala .«» ley. If it be said his testimony in a court... | |
 | John Church Hamilton - 1864 - 596 pages
...no barrier to his success. In his Notes on Virginia, while he admitted there was a God, he declared, "it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty Gods or one God." * " Voltaire's description of France," he wrote, " is a true picture of that country to which,... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1881 - 916 pages
...legislative powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it docs mo no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty Gods or no <Jod. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg." cheerless existence ; to whom no blissful perspective... | |
 | Lloyd D. Simpson - 1885 - 190 pages
...strengthens the presumption raised by his associates. In his notes on Virginia, he says " It does me no harm for my neighbor to say there are twenty Gods or no God ; it does not break my bones." In one of the passages cited from his letter to his nephew, he intimates... | |
 | 1886 - 878 pages
...hesitate long in pushing the argument as far as he does, by Baying, as he does, that " in its exercise, it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty Gods, or no God.'" While the argument rests only in words, it would be so evanescent that it might be no injury. But when... | |
 | Henry Adams - 1889 - 474 pages
...strange hymn with which Jefferson, a new false prophet, was deceiving and betraying his people : " It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty Gods or no God!" On this ground conservatism took its stand, as it had hitherto done with success in every similar emergency... | |
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The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty Gods, or no God. 
