 | 1857 - 628 lehte
...ameliorate mankind ? We really must not cramp observations upon authors and their works. Every man who publishes a book commits himself to the judgment of the public, and any one may comment upon his performance. He may not only be refuted, hut turned into ridicule if his blunders are ridiculous.... | |
 | Francis Ludlow Holt - 1816 - 340 lehte
...jury on behalf of the defendants, Lord Ellenborottyh said, " Every man who publishes a book commiU himself to the judgment of the public, and any one may comment upon his performance. If the commentator does not step aside from the work, or introduce fiction for... | |
 | 1808 - 542 lehte
...himself to thcju'lgment of ike puttie, and every one might comment upon /us work.. If thecommentator did not step aside from the work,' or introduce fiction for the purpose •f cunifoln wjfj he exercised only a 1 fair legitimate right. In the present case, the plaintiff... | |
 | Thomas Starkie - 1826 - 658 lehte
...-general having addressed the jury on the behalf of the defendants, Lord Ellenborough said, every man who publishes a book commits himself to the judgment of the public, and any one may comment upon his performance. If the commentator does not step aside from the work, or introduce fiction for... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of Common Pleas, John Bayly Moore - 1828 - 668 lehte
...to the judgment of the public, and any one may comment upon his performance. If the commentator do not step aside from the work, or introduce fiction...of condemnation, he exercises a fair and legitimate right. Whatever may be the merits of the works of authors, others have a right to pass their judgment... | |
 | Richard Godson - 1840 - 656 lehte
...Camp. 355 ; and see Nightingale v. Stockdale, Selw. Ab. 1013, 5th edit. Ellenborough, CJ— Every man who publishes a book commits himself to the judgment of the public ; and any one may comment upon hia performance. If the commentator does not step aside from the work, or introduce fiction for... | |
 | John Bouvier - 1843 - 752 lehte
...vicious taste for literature, or to censure what is hostile to morality. 1 Campb. R. 351,2. As every man who publishes a book commits himself to the judgment of the public, any one may comment on his performance. If the commentator does not step aside from the work, or introduce... | |
 | George Wingrove Cooke - 1844 - 562 lehte
...of the print, the case proceeded, and in summing up his lordship said, " Every man who pub" lishes a book commits himself to the judgment of " the public, and any one may comment upon his per" formance. If the commentator does not step aside " from the work, or introduce fiction... | |
 | Robert Henley Eden Baron Henley - 1852 - 770 lehte
...Camp. 355, (and see Nightingale v. Stockdale, Selw. Ab. 1013, 6th edit.) EUenborough, CJ Every man who publishes a book commits himself to the judgment of the public ; and any one may comment upon his performance. If the commentator does not step aside from the work, or introduce fiction for... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1857 - 408 lehte
...ameliorate mankind ? We really must not cramp observations upon authors and their works. Every man who publishes a book commits himself to the judgment of the public, and any one may comment upon his performance. He may not only be refuted, but turned into ridicule if his blunders are ridiculous.... | |
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Every man who publishes a book commits himself to the judgment of the public, and any one may comment upon his performance. If the commentator does not step aside from the work, or introduce fiction for the purpose of condemnation, he exercises a fair... 
