 ... and one even put on a military cockade, in order to incite his parishioners to come forward in the public cause. The genuine principles of our admirable constitution were thought by many to be in imminent peril ; yet all who wrote in their defence...  The Eclectic Review - Sivu 2391832Koko teos - Tietoja tästä kirjasta
 | William Cobbett - 1818 - 812 sivua
...esteem, the danger would be infinitely increased. He was afraid that the converse of that sentiment, " that the people had nothing to do with the laws, but to obey them," would be adopted, and that the people would be led to think that they had every thing to do with the... | |
 | John Watkins - 1818 - 572 sivua
...so indiscreet, and so ignorant of the principles of our constitution, as to say, "that the mass of the people had nothing to do with the laws but to obey them." The prelate here alluded to was the late learned and venerable Bishop Horsley, upon whom much obloquy... | |
 | 1826 - 602 sivua
...dislike to Bishop Horsley. That learned prelate, in the course of a speech in the House of Lords, said that " the people had nothing to do with the laws but to obey them." This sentiment, which at the time was much commented upon in the newspapers, excited Parr's indignation... | |
 | William Cobbett - 1829 - 404 sivua
...duty is to obey the laws; and it is not many years ago, that HORSLEY, Bishop of Rochester, told us, that the people had nothing to do with the laws but to obey them. The truth is, however, that the citizen's first duty is to maintain his rights, as it is the purchaser's... | |
 | 1832 - 572 sivua
...have suffered his thoughts to be so much engrossed in politics, as they suppose must have been the case. The truth, however, is, that few men gave themselves...Justiciary declared, that " no man had a right to apeak of the Constitution unless he possessed landed property ; " and another affirmed, that " since... | |
 | Robert Hall - 1833 - 504 sivua
...is, that few men gave themselves less to political matters than Mr. Hall. At the deeply-interesting period in which he wrote his political tracts, the...of justiciary declared that " no man had a right to apeak of the constitution unless he possessed landed property ;" and another affirmed, that " since... | |
 | Harriet Martineau - 1834 - 154 sivua
...of the subjects of the State as to their duty to the State. He knew that Mr. Arruther was of opinion that the people had nothing to do with the laws but to obey them ; but people could not well obey the laws without knowing what they were: so that Mr. Arruther, who... | |
 | Richard Gooch - 1836 - 290 sivua
...Bishop Horsley. This learned prelate having sa'id, in the course of a speech in the House of Lords, " the people had nothing to do with the laws but to obey them ;" the sentiment, which at the time was commented upon in the newspapers, excited Parr's indignation... | |
 | 1837 - 680 sivua
...opinion, that the franchise and privileges conferred by the state, were for their exclusive benefit, and that the people had nothing to do with the laws but to obey them. All efforts of the masses for a participation in civil rights, they loudly proclaimed to be the outpouring... | |
 | John Foxe - 1840 - 886 sivua
...and evinced, that he was able to * A modern prelate discovered exactly the same spirit, when he said, in the House of Lords, that " the people had nothing to do with the laws bul to obey them;" which shows that bigotry and intolerance are not confined to papists. "givn a reason... | |
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