 | William Irving - 1869 - 524 pages
...says, " The legislative 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. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg." TEE RAGE FOR TALKING. 315 pale of religion :... | |
 | William Irving, James Kirke Paulding, Washington Irving - 1869 - 536 pages
...says, " The legislative 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. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg." pale of religion : once differ in politics,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1860 - 518 pages
...says, " The legislative 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. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg." THE RAOE FOR TALKING. 341 to indulge in his... | |
 | 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.... | |
 | Henry Adams - 1889 - 466 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1894 - 634 pages
...God. The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others.2 But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg. If it be said his testimony in a court of justice... | |
 | Oscar Solomon Straus - 1896 - 52 pages
...severed. "Opinion," said Mr. Jefferson, "is something with which the government has nothing to do. It does me no .injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It is error alone which needs the support of government ; truth can stand by itself. Millions... | |
 | Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - 1897 - 1142 pages
...our God. 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. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg. If it be said his testimony in a court of justice... | |
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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. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg. 
