 ... 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. vol. 1-New [8th] - Sida 2091832Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | R. B. Cumberland - 1865 - 366 sidor
...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... | |
 | 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 sidor
...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 sidor
...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... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1886 - 500 sidor
...death-like apathy in the state. Perhaps it was then necessary that we should be told, e,e cathedra, that the people had nothing to do with the laws but to obey them: perhaps it was right that we should be amused with apologies for the corrupt influence of the crown;... | |
 | Sir George Grove, David Masson, John Morley, Mowbray Morris - 1896 - 524 sidor
...rather favoured liberalism, claimed to govern as guardians and trustees ; but they both agreed in this, that the people had nothing to do with the laws but to obey them. For about one hundred and thirty years, therefore, English Radicalism has been an active force in politics,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1902 - 488 sidor
...death-like apathy in the state. Perhaps it was then necessary that we should be told, ex cathedra, that the people had nothing to do with the laws but to obey them : perhaps it was right that we should be amused with apologies for the corrupt influence of the crown... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1902 - 486 sidor
...death-like apathy in the state. Perhaps it was then necessary that we should be told, ex cathedra, that the people had nothing to do with the laws but to ohey them : perhaps it was right that we should be amused with apologies for the corrupt influence... | |
 | William Cobbett - 1906 - 316 sidor
...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... | |
 | Ramsden Balmforth - 1912 - 252 sidor
...not even pretend to represent the people. Many of those who were opposed to reform openly declared that "the people had nothing to do with the laws but to obey them." The condition of the people was one of continuous, bitter, and grinding poverty. Wages in the agricultural... | |
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