 | Richard Hurd - Chivalry - 1776 - 352 pages
...apophthegm of the elder JAMES, already taken notice of, ** That it is fedition for *' the fubject to difpute what a king may ** do in the height of his power." AND as the canon laws are the pope's laws, fo we are told, on the fame fupreme authority, that the Englijh... | |
 | Richard Hurd - 1776 - 346 pages
...apophthegm of the elder JAMES, already taken notice of, " That it is fedition for " the fubject to difpute what a king may ** do in the height of his power." AND as the canon laws are the pope's laws, fo we are told, on the fame fupreme authority, that the EngUjh... | |
 | Richard Hurd - Chivalry - 1788 - 428 pages
...apophthegm of the elder JAMES, already taken notice of, " That it is fedition for the fub" jett to difpute what a king may do in " the height of his power." AND as the canon laws are the pope's laws, fo we are told, on the fame fupreme authority, that the Englijh... | |
 | John Millar - Constitutional history - 1803 - 520 pages
...suffer to be questioned. " As to dispute," said he, " what God may do, is blasphemy ; so it is sedition to " dispute what a king may do in the height " of his power." Even the judges, when called upon, in the execution of their duty, to decide between the king and the... | |
 | 1804 - 400 pages
...and blas•pliemy to dispute u'hnt the deity may do, SH it is presvmption and srJiti'in in a. subject to dispute what a king may do in the height of his powr: good chrittians, he aiiils, will be content inith God's will revealed in Ais Kuril ; and good... | |
 | Sir William Blackstone - Law - 1807 - 686 pages
...blasphemy in a creature to dispute what the deity may " do, so it is presumption and sedition in a subject to dispute " what a king may do in the height of his power: good " Christians, he adds, will be content with God's will, " revealed in his word ; and good subjects... | |
 | Henry St. John Bolingbroke (Viscount) - English essays - 1809 - 472 pages
...themselves within the limits of their " laws ; yet as it is blasphemy to dispute what " God may do, so it is sedition in subjects to " dispute what a king may do in the height of his " power." — These doctrines were new, ungrateful, and shocking to English ears ; yet the parliament kept in... | |
 | David Hume - Great Britain - 1810 - 504 pages
...blasphemy, but what God wzV/«, that divines " may lawfully and do ordinarily dispute and discuss; so " is it sedition in subjects to dispute what a king may do " in the height of his power. But just kings will ever be " willing to declare what they will do, if they will not inm We learn from... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English literature - 1811 - 506 pages
...balances of a mixed monarchy. Reverting to the time when it was declared from the throne to be sedition to dispute " what a king may do in the height of his power," and the doctrine was re-echoed by prelates who entitled his Majesty " the breath of their nostrils," they... | |
 | Richard Hurd - Theology, Doctrinal - 1811 - 420 pages
...immortal apophthegm of the elder JAMES, already taken notice of, " That it " is sedition for the subject to dispute what a " king may do in the height of his power." And as the canon laws are the pope's laws, so we are told, on the same supreme authority, that the English... | |
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That as to dispute what God may do is blasphemy, ... so is it sedition in subjects to dispute what a king may do in the height of his power. 
