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Quoting a Book

Fòcus·10/25/2015, 10:49:10 PM·2 votes·357 views

I'm doing English homework, and I gotta quote something to support my thesis, can my League of Legends friends help a brother out?

I have no clue what this means because the narrator is talking like a fucking 18th century poet. Can someone explain what this means?:

Those cruelties we may say are well employed, if it be permitted to speak well of things evil, which are done once for all under the necessity of self-preservation, and are not afterwards persisted in, but so far as possible modified to the advantage of the governed.

Also don't report this because if this gets taken down before I get a good answer, I'm changing league to a first person moba when I get a job in Riot.

3 Comments

Jubbinaut10/25/2015, 11:00:42 PM2 votes

It often helps to rearrange sentences like that:

"If it be permitted to speak well of things evil, we may say [that] those cruelties are well employed which are done once for all under the necessity of self-preservation, and are not afterwards persisted in, but so far as possible modified to the advantage of the governed."

And if that doesn't help, try rephrasing individual clauses into more modern English, then restructuring the sentence so that it makes sense.

ModWulf Helhammer10/25/2015, 10:54:38 PM1 votes

You're asking for help on your English homework on a gaming message board. You're not getting a job at Riot