 | 1896 - 832 pages
...of gentlemen. Once let them understand that they were not all born to be statesmen, that the masses have nothing to do with the laws but to obey them, and their prosperity at home, their expansion abroad, need know no limits. It is a common complaint in... | |
 | Great Britain. State Trials Committee - Trials - 1891 - 738 pages
...collected, and on which they proceed. This is not a country in which it can constitutionally bo said that the people have nothing to do with the laws, but to obey them. The grounds on which laws are framed must be understood — must bo approved of— that the laws may... | |
 | Henry Sidgwick - Contracts - 1891 - 730 pages
...countries it has been the prevalent opinion, the established constitutional doctrine, that the mass of the people " have nothing to do with the laws but to obey them." But this is not the view upon which our construction of government has proceeded. In framing our supreme... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1896 - 538 pages
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 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Criminal law - 1898 - 724 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,... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - Great Britain - 1901 - 520 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... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1902 - 730 pages
...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... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1902 - 322 pages
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 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1902 - 368 pages
...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... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1902 - 234 pages
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the people have nothing to do with the laws but to obey them. 
