"They have built it right under my palace grounds, and it ends in front of the
Forbidden Fountain.
Indeed it is as much the business of the legislator as anything else, to banish every indecent expression out of the state: for from a permission to speak whatever is shameful, very quickly arises the doing it, and this particularly with young people: for which reason let them never speak nor hear any such thing: but if it appears that any freeman has done or said anything that is
forbidden before he is of age to be thought fit to partake of the common meals, let him be punished by disgrace and stripes; but if a person above that age does so, let him be treated as you would a slave, on account of his being infamous.
Caedmon next tells how the fiend tempted first the man and then the woman with guileful lies to eat of the fruit which had been
forbidden to them, and how Eve yielded to him.
"Very, monsieur; you have
forbidden me to go to Blois, or to see Mademoiselle de la Valliere again." Here the young man stopped.
God knows I do not want such things, but none the less Bwikov has
forbidden them.
"Don't you know that I've
forbidden you to play that idiotic game?"
Thwackum was encouraged to the undertaking by reflecting that to covet your neighbour's sister is nowhere
forbidden: and he knew it was a rule in the construction of all laws, that " Expressum facit cessare tacitum.
Much pleasure we have lost, while we abstain'd From this delightful Fruit, nor known till now True relish, tasting; if such pleasure be In things to us
forbidden, it might be wish'd, For this one Tree had bin
forbidden ten.
On either hand towered mighty peaks thousands of feet higher than the pass through which they were entering the
forbidden valley.
Only forbid a woman to do anything, and she does it directly--be cause you have
forbidden her.
I am very miserable about Sir James Martin, and have no other way in the world of helping myself but by writing to you, for I am
forbidden even speaking to my uncle and aunt on the subject; and this being the case, I am afraid my applying to you will appear no better than equivocation, and as if I attended to the letter and not the spirit of mamma's commands.
"Massacres are to be sternly
forbidden as heretofore; but any citizen or subject of either country disobeying the injunction is to detach the scalps of all persons massacred and deposit them with a local officer designated to receive and preserve them and sworn to keep and render a true account thereof.