 | 1824 - 488 pages
...wills, 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*." And Mr. Godwin is fully borne out upon abundant authority when he infers that, " from the first meeting... | |
 | George Miller - 1824 - 546 pages
...assert, as t he did, 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. And though it were strictly true, as t the historian has stated, that the genius of the ancient government... | |
 | William Blackstone - 1825 - 572 pages
..." in a creature to dispute what the deity may do, so it is pre" sumption 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... | |
 | sir William Blackstone - 1825 - 660 pages
..." in a creature to dispute what the deity may do, so it is pre" sumption 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... | |
 | William Blackstone - 1827 - 916 pages
...in a crea''ture to dispute what the deity may do, so it is presumption and sedi" tion in a subject to dispute what a king may do in the height of his pow" er : good Christians (he adds) will be content with God's will, revealed . " in his word ; and... | |
 | David Hume, Tobias Smollett, William Jones - 1828 - 492 pages
...mils, 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 incur the curse... | |
 | Thomas Hutchinson - 1828 - 610 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 powers : good Christians," he adds, " will be content with GOD's will, revealed in his word ; and good... | |
 | 1831 - 702 pages
...for to dispute a posts ad esse is both agaiust logick and divinitie, so is it sedition in subjects to dispute what a king may do in the height of his power" — but finding that the "five hundred kings," as he was pleased to term them, would not accede to... | |
 | 1838 - 594 pages
...he added further, that 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. Fatal sentiment, the acting out of which, by his unfortunate son, produced so many calamitous events... | |
 | William Blackstone - 1836 - 694 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... | |
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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. 
