 | George T. Kenyon - Great Britain - 1873 - 456 pages
...long since been exploded ; and when our kings were obliged to confess their title to the crown aud the rule of their government had no other foundation...infallibility attributed to any other branch of the legislature. Power without right is the most odious and detestable object that can be offered to the... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - Great Britain - 1875 - 968 pages
...doctrine of passive obediepce had long since been exploded ; and, when our Kings were obliged to confess n asked in old time of the Hebrew prophet. And he answered, divino infallibility, attributed to any other branch of the Legislature. My Lords, I beg to be understood.... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - Great Britain - 1878 - 514 pages
...doctrine of passive obedience had long since been exploded ; and, when our kings are obliged to confess that their title to the crown and the rule of their government have other foundation than the known laws of the land, I never expected to hear a divine right or a... | |
 | William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - Forensic orations - 1880 - 552 pages
...doctrine of passive obedience had long since been exploded ; and, when our kings were obliged to confess that their title to the crown, and the rule of their...infallibility, attributed to any other branch of the legislature. My lords, I beg to be understood. No man respects the house of commons more than I do,... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1881 - 1106 pages
...their title to the Crown and the rule of thoir Government had no other foundation than the known law of the land, I never expected to hear a Divine right...infallibility attributed to any other branch of the Legislature. The Commons have betrayed their constituents and violated the Constitution ; under the... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1881 - 1132 pages
...slavish doctrine of passive obedience had long been exploded, and, when our Kings were obliged to confess that their title to the Crown and the rule of their...Government had no other foundation than the known law of the land, I never expected to hear a Divine right or a Divine infallibility attributed to any... | |
 | William Edward Hartpole Lecky - Great Britain - 1882 - 594 pages
...passive obedience was exploded, when our kings were obliged to confess that their title to the throne and the rule of their government had no other foundation than the known law of the land. But now this doctrine of passive obedience and of a power beyond the law was revived... | |
 | Alexander Charles Ewald - 1884 - 668 pages
...doctrine of passive obedience had long since been exploded ; and when our kings were obliged to confess that their title to the crown, and the rule of their...had no other foundation than the known laws of the laud, I never expected to hear a divine right, or a divine infallibility attributed to any other branch... | |
 | George Barnett Smith - 1892 - 658 pages
...doctrine of passive obedience had long since been exploded ; and when our kings were obliged to confess that their title to the crown and the rule of their...infallibility attributed to any other branch of the Legislature." The Commons had betrayed their constituents and violated the Constitution by uniting... | |
 | William Edward Hartpole Lecky - Great Britain - 1892 - 524 pages
...passive obedience was exploded, when our kings were obliged to confess that their title to the throne and the rule of their government had no other foundation than the 340 ENGLAND IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. CH. X. known law of the land. But now this doctrine of passive... | |
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My lords, I thought the slavish doctrine of passive obedience had long since been exploded; and. when our kings were obliged to confess that their title to the crown, and the rule of their government, had no other foundation than the known laws of the... 
