 | Richard Whately, Elizabeth Jane Whately - 1866 - 546 pages
...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 Britain... | |
 | Thomas Babington baron Macaulay - 1866 - 738 pages
...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 Macaulay (baron [speeches]) - 1866 - 294 pages
...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 - 632 pages
...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... | |
 | Goldwin Smith - Great Britain - 1867 - 342 pages
...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... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - Great Britain - 1867 - 636 pages
...God's providential arrangements," and another bishop asserting in the House of Lords that " the poor have nothing to do with the laws but to obey them" — and, lastly, when we find the Lord Justice Clerk of Scotland declaring from the Bench that the landed interest... | |
 | Goldwin Smith - Statesmen - 1868 - 338 pages
...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 - Great Britain - 1871 - 760 pages
...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 - Christianity and other religions - 1874 - 282 pages
...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,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Criminal law - 1875 - 752 pages
...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,... | |
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the people have nothing to do with the laws but to obey them. 
