 | Matthew Page Andrews - 1916 - 450 sivua
...^"church"1 of the leading men. As Governor Win- and state throp maintained, ' ' The best part of a community is always the least ; and of that best part, the wiser part is always the lesser." s In order to uphold what they believed was "the best part" of the people, the Puritans were bold enough... | |
 | 1917 - 376 sivua
...still is today by some of their successors. In a letter to Thomas Hooker, Winthrop once " expostulated about the unwarrantableness and unsafeness of referring...that best part the wiser part is always the lesser." John Cotton frankly expressed his disbelief that God ever ordained the democratic form of government,... | |
 | 1917 - 622 sivua
...unwarrantableness and unsafeness of referring matters of council or judicature to the body of the people. The best part is always the least, and of that best part the wiser part is always the lesser." A dictum of vast importance, except that the Massachusetts people passed quietly over the prostrate... | |
 | Willis Mason West - 1918 - 846 sivua
...admirably the case for democracy. Winthrop wrote to him that democracy was " unwarrantable " because " the best part is always the least, and of that best part the wiser part is always the lesser " ; but Hooker replied : " In matters . . . that concern the common good, a general council iThis term... | |
 | 1920 - 886 sivua
...were forming a government, he wrote them a letter in which he said that "the best part of a community is always the least, and of that best part the wiser part is always the lesser." But he was attached to civil liberty, disinterested, pure and conscientious. "It would be erroneous,9... | |
 | Everett Kimball - 1920 - 650 sivua
...was not unlike that of John Winthrop who wrote of " the unwarrantableness ... of referring matters of counsel or judicature to the body of the people,...and of that best part the wiser part is always the lesser."1 REVOLUTIONARY EXPERIMENTS The separation from Great Britain involved a double task two problems... | |
 | Everett Kimball - 1920 - 656 sivua
...unwarrantableness ... of referring matters of counsel or judicature to the body of the people, quia the best part is always the least, and of that best part the wiser part is always the lesser." 1 1 Life and Letters of John Winthrop, Vol. II, p. 237 ; quoted by Edward Charming, History of the... | |
 | Andrew Cunningham McLaughlin - 1920 - 222 sivua
...of counsel and judicature," said Winthrop, ought not to be referred to the main body of the people; "the best part is always the least, and of that best part, the wiser part is always the lesser." Hooker, on the other hand, declared: "In matters of greater consequence, which concern the common good,... | |
 | 1920 - 434 sivua
...Winthrop wrote to Hooker that it was unsafe to bestow political power on the hoi polloi, because ' the best part is always the least, and of that best part the wiser ' part is always the lesser.' f Democracy he ' branded with ' reproachful epithets . . . ; and historians do record that it hath... | |
 | 1920 - 892 sivua
...forming a government, he wrote them a letter in which he said that “the best part of. a community is always the least, and of that best part the wiser part is always the lesser.' But he was attached to civil liberty, disinterested, pure and conscientious. 1t would be erroneous,'... | |
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... the best part is always the least, and of that best part the wiser part is always the lesser. 
