 | Cassell, ltd - 1865 - Liczba stron: 648
...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... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay (baron [speeches]) - 1866 - Liczba stron: 294
...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,... | |
 | Thomas Babington baron Macaulay - 1866 - Liczba stron: 738
...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,... | |
 | 1866 - Liczba stron: 632
...lips of the ruling few were supposed to be a sufficient answer to the grievances of the subject many. "The people have nothing to do with the laws but to obey them ;" " If they don't like their country, let them leave it ;" " Glorious constitution ;" " Envy and admiration... | |
 | Richard Whately, Elizabeth Jane Whately - 1866 - Liczba stron: 546
...surely be as much admixture of republican elements in the one as in the other. In an absolute monarchy the people have nothing to do with the laws but to obey them, and if then the Church and State are combined, there is no self-government in either. But in Great... | |
 | Goldwin Smith - 1867 - Liczba stron: 342
...bishop of the day, and a sort of ecclesiastical henchman of Pitt, is known as the author of the maxim " that the people have nothing to do with the laws but to obey them." This prelate preached a sermon, published in his works, in which, correcting the imperfect views of... | |
 | Goldwin Smith - 1868 - Liczba stron: 338
...bishop of the day, and a sort of ecclesiastical henchman of Pitt, is known as the author of the maxim ' that the people have nothing to do with the laws but to obey them/ This prelate preached a sermon, published in his works, in which, correcting the imperfect views of... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1871 - Liczba stron: 760
...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,... | |
 | Reginald Bosworth Smith - 1874 - Liczba stron: 282
...words which have been wrongly construed to mean that at all times passive obedience is a duty, and that the people have nothing to do with the laws but to obey them. Nor has the Christian Church — sections of which have for strange and various, but intelligible,... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1875 - Liczba stron: 558
...pressure of grievances, and may not complain of them, we are slaves indeed. To 1 32 Parl. Hist. 255. declare, therefore, that ' the people have nothing...laws but to obey them,' was as fallacious as it was odious.1 There was no ground for saying, that if people met to discuss public questions, they meant... | |
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the people have nothing to do with the laws but to obey them. 
