 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1853 - 446 pàgines
...the existence of a free Government itself. If you choose to adopt the principle of Bishop Horsley, that the people have nothing to do with the laws but to obey them, then, indeed, you may deprecate agitation ; but while we live in a free country, and under a free Government,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1853 - 994 pàgines
...divided the governments into those high monarchical ones in which the sovereign is a paternal despot and the people have nothing to do with the laws but to obey them, and those few governments in which, with an hereditary sovereign and an upper chamber of legislation, the... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1854 - 582 pàgines
...reprobate agitation, merely as agitation, unless he is prepared to adopt the maxim of Bishop Horsley, that the people have nothing to do with the laws but to obey them. The truth is that agitation is inseparable from popular government. If you wish to get rid of agitation,... | |
 | Rev. Pearson (Thomas), Thomas Pearson - 1854 - 630 pàgines
...principles of a Sidney and a Hampden, than with those of a Filmer and his modern disciple who declared that the people have nothing to do with the laws but to obey them. We would not, then, that the political world were lulled asleep, and that people's minds were drawn... | |
 | Thomas Doubleday - 1856 - 532 pàgines
...held the more modern and compendious doctrine which Horsley summed up in one comprehensive sentence, " that the people have nothing to do with the laws but to obey them !" On the contrary, it was the opinion of Mr Pitt that power -ought, under the English constitution,... | |
 | 1856 - 910 pàgines
...condition of England, throughout the sixteenth century. The people in those days were conceived to " have nothing to do with the laws but to obey them," and therefore a line of conduct was marked out for them, even in food, clothing, wages, and dwellings,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1860 - 592 pàgines
...reprobate agitation, merely as agitation, unless he is prepared to adopt the maxim of Bishop Horsley, that the people have nothing to do with the laws but to obey them. The truth is that agitation is inseparable from popular government. If you wish to get rid of agitation,... | |
 | John Kenrick - 1860 - 274 pàgines
...Dissenters," and the advice given to them is, at all events, in accordance with his celebrated dictum, " that the people have nothing to do with the laws but to obey them." Mr. Wellbeloved found many congenial minds among his fellow-students at Hackney. It may be sufficient... | |
 | Thomas Pearson - 1863 - 344 pàgines
...principles of a Sidney and a Hampden, than with those of a Filmer and his modern disciple, who declared that the people have nothing to do with the laws but to obey them. We would not, then, that the political world were lulled asleep, and that peoples' minds where drawn... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1865 - 648 pàgines
...the existence of a free government itself. If they chose to adopt the principle of Bishop Horsley, that the people have nothing to do with the laws but to obey them, then, indeed, they might deprecate agitation ; but in a free country and under a free government, the... | |
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the people have nothing to do with the laws but to obey them. 
