 ... being rightfully possessed of great power and riches, exceedingly beyond the greatest part of the sons of Adam, is so far from being an excuse, much less a reason, for rapine and oppression, which the endamaging another without authority is, that...  Tracts on Political & Other Subjects - Page 116by Joseph Towers - 1796Full view - About this book
 | William Harris - Great Britain - 1758 - 458 pages
...the endanlaging another without authority is, that it is a great aggravation of it. For the exceeding the bounds of authority, is no more a right in a great than a petty officer, no more juftifiable in a king than a conftable: but it is fo much the worfe in him,... | |
 | John Bancks - 1760 - 330 pages
...authority is, that it is a great aggravation of it : for the exceeding the bounds of authority is nomore a right in a great, than in a petty officer, no more...more truft put in him, has already a much greater fhare than the reft of his brethren, and is fuppofed, from the advantage of his education, employment,... | |
 | John Locke - Liberty - 1764 - 438 pages
...the endamaging another without authority is, that it is a great aggravation of it : for the exceeding the bounds of authority is no more a right in a great,...more juftifiable in a king than a conftable ; but is fa much the worfe in him, in that he has more truft put in him, has already a much greater mare than... | |
 | John Bancks - 1779 - 336 pages
...it is a great aggravation of it: for the exceeding the bounds of authority is no more a right in the great, than in a petty officer, no more juftifiable in a king than a conftable ; but is fo much the worfeiin him, in that he has more truft put •in him, has already a much greater fhare than the reft... | |
 | Oratory - 1808 - 542 pages
...the highest as well as in the most inferior magistrate, I would gladly be informed. For the exceeding the bounds of authority is no more a right in a great than in a petty officer, ;'// a king than in a constable ,• but is so much the worse in him, that he has more trust put in... | |
 | Nathaniel Chapman - Great Britain - 1808 - 468 pages
...the highest as well as in the most inferiour magistrate I would gladly be informed. For the exceeding the bounds of authority is no more a right in a great than in a petty officer, in a king than in a constable; but is so much the worse in him, that he has more trust put in him,... | |
 | Nathaniel Chapman - Great Britain - 1808 - 466 pages
...well as in the most inferiour magistrate I would gladly be informed. For the exceeding the bourids of authority is no more a right in a great than in a petty officer, in a king than in a constable; but is so much the worse in him, that he has more trust put in him,... | |
 | Thomas Erskine (1st baron.) - Forensic orations - 1810 - 420 pages
...highest as well as in the most inferior ma" gistrate, I would gladly be informed. For the *' exceeding the bounds -of authority is no more a " right in a great than in a petty officer, in a King " than in a constable ; but 13 so much the worse in *' him, that he has more trust put in... | |
 | James Ridgway - Freedom of the press - 1813 - 416 pages
...highest as well as in the most inferior ma" gistrate, I would gladly be informed. For the " exceeding the bounds of authority is no more a " right in a great than in a petty officer, in a King V " than in a constable; but is so much the worse in'-* him, that he has more trust put in... | |
 | Thomas Erskine Baron Erskine - Freedom of the press - 1813 - 634 pages
...most inferior magistrate, I would " gladly be informed. For the exceeding the bounds of au-, " thority is no more a right in a great than in a petty officer, " in a King than in a constable; but is so much the worse in " him, that he has more trust put in him,... | |
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