 It is a contradiction in terms, it is blasphemy in religion, it is wickedness in politics, to say that any man can have arbitrary power. In every patent of office the duty is included. For what else does a magistrate exist ? To suppose for power is an...  Autobiography and Reminiscences - Page 319by David Patterson Dyer - 1922 - 357 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Scotland - 1833 - 1056 pages
...politics, to say, that any man can have arbitrary power. In every patent of office the duty is included. We may bite our chains if we will: but we shall be...taught that man is born to be governed by Law, and he who substitutes Will in place of it is an enemy to God!" * * * * "The moment a Sovereign removes the... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1839 - 660 pages
...is included. For what else does a magistrate exist ? To suppose for power is an absurdity in idea. Judges are guided and governed by the eternal laws of justice, to which we are all subject. •Yfe may bite our chains if we will, but we shall be made to know ourselves, and be taught, that... | |
 | George Croly - Politicians - 1840 - 334 pages
...politics, to say, that any man can have arbitrary power. In every patent of office the duty is included. We may bite our chains if we will ; but we shall be...taught that man is born to be governed by Law, and he who substitutes Will in place of it is an enemy to God !"****« The moincut a Sovereign removes the... | |
 | George Croly - 1840 - 612 pages
...politics, to say, that any man can have arbitrary power. In every patent of office the duty is included. We may bite our chains if we will ; but we shall be...taught that man is born to be governed by Law, and he who substitutes Will in place of it is an enemy to God !"****" The moment a Sovereign removes the idea... | |
 | Epes Sargent - Readers - 1852 - 570 pages
...is included. For what else does a magistrate exist ? To suppose for power, is an absurdity in idea. Judges are guided and governed by the eternal laws...made to know ourselves, and be taught that man is bora to be governed by law ; and he that will substitute will in the place of it is an enemy to God.... | |
 | Epes Sargent - Elocution - 1852 - 570 pages
...is ineluded. For what else does a magistrate exist ? To suppose for power, is an absurdity in idea. Judges are guided and governed by the eternal laws of justice, to which we are all subjeet. We may bite our chains, if we will ; but we shall be made to know ourselves, and be taught... | |
 | Enoch Cobb Wines - Bible and law - 1853 - 652 pages
...absurdity in idea. Judges are guarded and governed by the eternal laws of justice, to which we all arc subject. "We may bite our chains, if we will ; but we shall be made t<£know ourselves, and be taught that man is born to be governed by law ; and he that will substitute... | |
 | Baptists - 1854 - 516 pages
...to be for power is an absurdity in idea. Judges are guarded by the eternal laws to which we all are subject; we may bite our chains if we will; but we...made to know ourselves, and be taught that man is made to be governed by law ; and he thai will substitute will is an enemy to God." No matter whether... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1857 - 528 pages
...To suppose for power is an absurdity in idea. Judges are guided and governed by the eternal laws i of justice, to which we are all subject. We may bite our j chains if we will, but we shall be made to know ourselves, \ and be taught that man is born to be... | |
 | William Blackstone - Law - 1872 - 776 pages
...duty is included. For what else does a magistrate exist? To suppose for power is an absurdity in idea. Judges are guided and governed by the eternal laws of .justice to which we are all subject." See Prior's life of Burke, ch. ix; Works, (Little (k Brown's Ed.) ix, 455. false conclusions if we... | |
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