 ... 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
 | Great Britain. Parliament - 1852 - 764 sivua
...pale of the Constitution, and who — to use language which had once been used in another place — had nothing to do with the laws but to obey them, and yet who were the equals, in many respects, of those who enjoyed the civil rights and privileges of... | |
 | Robert Hall - 1855 - 504 sivua
...the case. The truth, however, is, that few men gave themselves less to political matters than he did. At the deeply interesting period in which he wrote..."no " man had a right to speak of the Constitution V7iless he "possessed landed property;" and another affirmed that " since the abolition of TORTURE,... | |
 | William Cobbett - 1861 - 354 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... | |
 | William Massey - 1863 - 704 sivua
...these rash words, as well as another insolent phrase dropped by Bishop Horsley, in the Upper House, that the people had nothing to do with the laws but to obey them, were long remembered, and quoted by those who would represent the Court as engaged in a systematic... | |
 | R. B. Cumberland - 1865 - 366 sivua
...of their apologists says, " they made laws which they enforced without rendering any reason, holding that the people had 'nothing to do with the laws but to obey them.' They explored many regions of natural science, giving the people the results in the form of divination... | |
 | Stray leaves - 1865 - 342 sivua
...of their apologists says, " they made laws which they enforced without rendering any reason, holding that the people had 'nothing to do with the laws but to obey them.' They explored many regions of natural science, giving the people the results in the form of divination... | |
 | William Massey - 1865 - 470 sivua
...these rash words, as well as another insolent phrase dropped by Bishop Horsley, in the Upper House, that the people had nothing to do with the laws but to obey them, were long remembered, and quoted by those who would represent the Court as engaged in a systematic... | |
 | Alexis de Tocqueville - 1872
...the taxes, the noblesse spent them. The people furnished the soldiers, the noblesse the officers ; the people had nothing to do with the laws but to obey them ; the noblesse made them and administered them. The noblesse alone were good company ; if a roturier... | |
 | William Cobbett - 1876 - 714 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 d:tty ia to maintain his rights, as it is the purchaser's... | |
 | Charles Pebody - 1882 - 212 sivua
...general opinion was that the Press had no right to discuss political questions at all ; that the mass of the people had nothing to do with the laws but to obey them ; that it was a breach of privilege to publish any report of Parliamentary debates — a thing to be... | |
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