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" the people have nothing to do with the laws but to obey them. "
Union Pamphlets - Page 26
1799
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The Unknown Poe: An Anthology of Fugitive Writings

Edgar Allan Poe - Literary Criticism - 1980 - 136 pages
...never a dupe! —I do not think that the Virginian who wrote placidly in the onrush of democracy : "The people have nothing to do with the laws but to obey them," has ever fallen prey to modern sagacity— and: "The nose of a mob is its imagination; by this at any...
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Baudelaire: Selected Writings on Art and Artists

Charles Baudelaire - Literary Criticism - 1981 - 468 pages
...was ! - I do not believe that the Virginian who, in the full tide of democracy, could calmly write: 'The people have nothing to do with the laws but to obey them',2 can ever have been the victim of modern wisdom; and 'The nose of a mob is its imagination ;...
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Strangeness and Beauty: Volume 1, Ruskin to Swinburne: An Anthology of ...

Eric Warner, Graham Hough - Literary Criticism - 1983 - 314 pages
...never was! I do not believe that the Virginian who, in the full tide of democracy, could calmly write: 'The people have nothing to do with the laws but to obey them', can ever have been the victim of modern wisdom; and 'The nose of a mob is its imagination; by this...
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Edgar Allan Poe: Poetry & Tales (LOA #19)

Edgar Allan Poe - Fiction - 1984 - 1440 pages
...his arms and legs, and his politics were stubborn and easily understood. He thought, with Horsley, that "the people have nothing to do with the laws but to obey them." I had lived with the old gentleman all my life. My parents, in dying, had bequeathed me to him as a...
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Essays and Reviews

Edgar Allan Poe, Gary Richard Thompson - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1984 - 1572 pages
...throw on a faggot" — for fear of smothering out the fire. 45I am beginning to think with Horsely — that "the People have nothing to do with the laws but to obey them." 46. "It is not fair to review my book without reading it," says Mr. M , talking at the critics, and,...
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Burke, Paine, Godwin, and the Revolution Controversy

Marilyn Butler - Fiction - 1984 - 280 pages
...violence, clamour, the shock of beginning on a note so high that crescendo seems impossible. "THE MASS OF THE PEOPLE HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH THE LAWS, BUT TO OBEY THEM!"14 - Ere yet this foul treason against the majesty of man, ere yet this blasphemy against the...
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Coleridge and the Armoury of the Human Mind: Essays on His Prose Writings

Peter J. Kitson, Thomas N. Corns - Autobiography - 1991 - 144 pages
...Rochester, Samuel Horsley's notorious statement in the Lords on 1 1 November 1795, that "the Mass of the People have nothing to do with the laws but to obey them" (LPR 285,285n).41 Rumbold, an extreme republican, had been implicated in the Rye House plot of 1683...
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From Cranmer to Davidson: A Church of England Miscellany

Stephen Taylor - History - 1999 - 498 pages
...taunted by the duke of Bedford that the duke had once overheard him at an election meeting avowing that 'The people have nothing to do with the laws but to obey them,' he cried loudly, 'Hear, Hear,' even if he was at pains to qualify his outlook when he later spoke in...
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Tales and Sketches: 1831-1842

Edgar Allan Poe, Thomas Ollive Mabbott, Eleanor D. Kewer - Fiction - 2000 - 756 pages
...his arms and legs, and his politics were stubborn and easily understood. He thought, with Horsley, that "the people have" nothing to do with the laws but to obey them." 11 I had lived with the old gentleman all my life. My "parents, in a b. c d e f "No!" (A) . . b was...
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Regency Radical: Selected Writings of William Hone

William Hone - History - 2003 - 476 pages
...ye admirers of Louis the Desired, and Ferdinand the Beloved:8 magnify it for ever. 0 ye who believe the People have nothing to do with the Laws but to obey them: magnify it for ever. 0 ye who are arrayed in purple and fine linen; who toil not, neither do ye spin:...
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