 | Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1796 - 872 pages
...and apologize for fuch men, it was much to be lamented. A certain Bifhop was faid to have declared, that the people had nothing to do with the laws but to obey them, while modern democms, on the contrary, held the doctrine that they have every thing to do with the... | |
 | J DEBRETT - 1796 - 842 pages
...and apologize for fuch men, it was much to be lamented. A certain Biihop was faid to have declared, that the people had nothing to do with the laws but to obey them, while modern democrats, on the contrary, held the doctrine that they have every thing to do with the... | |
 | Charles James Fox - Great Britain - 1815 - 684 pages
...authority, considerable talents, and great learning (the Bishop of Rochester) had said, that the mass of the people had nothing to do with the laws, but to obey them. And this strange assertion had been made by a member of that order, who beyond all others were taught... | |
 | Richard Brinsley Sheridan - Great Britain - 1816 - 498 pages
...could be so indiscreet, and so ignorant of the principles of our constitution to say,) " The mass of the people had nothing to do with the laws but to obey them!" •Sir Edward Knatchbull explained again that he did not mean to throw any reflection on the persons... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1826 - 610 pages
...dislike to Bishop Horsley. That learned prelate, in the course of a speech in the House of Lords, said that " the people had nothing to do with the laws but to obey them." This sentiment, which at the time was much commented upon in the newspapers, excited Parr's indignation... | |
 | Robert Hall - 1832 - 504 pages
...wrote in their defence were exposed to obloquy. A learned prelate asserted, in the House of Lords, that " the people had nothing to do with " the laws but to obey them," and his sentiment was loudly applauded. In a kindred spirit, during the trials of Muir and Palmer,... | |
 | 1832 - 816 pages
...wrote in their defence were exposed to obloquy. A learned prelate asserted, in the House of Lords, that " the people had nothing to do with the laws but to obey them," and his sentiment was loudly applauded. In a kindred spirit, during the trials of Muir and Palmer,... | |
 | Robert Hall - Baptists - 1832 - 516 pages
...wrote in their defence were exposed to obloquy. A learned prelate asserted, in the House of Lords, that " the people had nothing to do with " the laws but to obey them," and his sentiment was loudly applauded. In a kindred spirit, during the trials of Muir and Palmer,... | |
 | Harriet Martineau - 1834 - 426 pages
...of the subjects of the State as to their duty to the State. He knew that Mr. Arruther was of opinion that the people had nothing to do with the laws but to obey them ; but people could not well obey the laws without knowing what they were: so that Mr. Arruther, who... | |
 | Robert Huish - 1836 - 1018 pages
...duty is to obey the laws ; and it is not many years ago that Horsloy, hishop 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... | |
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that the people had nothing to do with the laws but to obey them. 
