 | Thomas Hutchinson - 1828 - 568 pages
...notions of the divinity of regal sway, more than once laid it down in his speeches, that — " as it was atheism and blasphemy in a creature to dispute what...do, so it is presumption and sedition in a subject 1o dispute what a king may do in the height of his powers : good Christians," he adds, " will be content... | |
 | Richard Hurd - 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 - 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 - 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
...is atheism 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... | |
 | William Blackstone - 1807 - 686 pages
...high notions of the divinity of regal sway, more than once laid it down in his speeches, that '•' as it is atheism " and blasphemy in a creature 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) - 1809 - 472 pages
...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 - 1810 - 504 pages
...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... | |
 | Richard Hurd - 1811 - 366 pages
...that 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. 
