 | Abraham Thompson Lowe - 1831 - 232 páginas
...1740. When he commenced master of arts, in 1743, he proposed the following question for discussion : 2. Whether it be lawful to resist the supreme magistrate,...preserved ? He maintained the affirmative, and thus early shewed his attachment to the liberties of the people. Early distinguished by talents as a writer, his... | |
 | Benjamin Waterhouse - 1831 - 482 páginas
...graduated at the university of Cambridge in the year 1740, when he discussed the following thesis, " Whether it be lawful to resist the SUPREME MAGISTRATE,...otherwise be preserved ? " He maintained the affirmative, which was remarkable for that time and place ; for it wae in presence of the King's Governor and his... | |
 | 1834 - 426 páginas
...respective degrees of bachelor and master of arts were conferred upon him. On the latter occasion, he proposed the following question for discussion,...otherwise be preserved?" He maintained the affirmative of this proposition, and thus evinced, at this period of his life, his attachment to the liberties... | |
 | Edward Everett - 1835 - 80 páginas
...oppression was his vocation. On taking his second degree, he maintained the noble thesis, that it is " lawful to resist the supreme magistrate, if the Commonwealth cannot otherwise be preserved." Thus at the age of twenty-one, twenty years before the stamp act was thought of, Samuel Adams, from... | |
 | James Grahame - 1836 - 480 páginas
...cherished through life, by maintaining in the thesis which gained him his literary degree, that " it is lawful to resist the supreme magistrate, if the commonwealth cannot otherwise be preserved." A sincere and devout puritan in religion, grave in his manners, pure in his morals, simple, frugal,... | |
 | Edward Everett - 1836 - 652 páginas
...oppression was his vocation. On taking his second degree, he maintained the noble thesis, that it is ' lawful to resist the supreme magistrate, if the commonwealth cannot otherwise be preserved.' Thus, at the age of twenty-one, twenty years before the stamp act was thought of, Samuel Adams, from... | |
 | Sir Daniel Keyte Sandford - 1836 - 496 páginas
...honours in 1740. When he took the degree of master, in 1743, he proposed the following question : " Whether it be lawful to resist the supreme magistrate, if the commonwealth cannot be otherwise preserved ?" lie maintained the affirmative and this collegiate exercise furnished a very... | |
 | Robert W. Lincoln - 1836 - 530 páginas
...this latter occasion, he proposed the following question, in which he maintained the affirmative: " Whether it be lawful to resist the supreme magistrate, if the commonwealth cannot be otherwise preserved ?" On quitting the university, he commenced the study of the law; but soon afterwards,... | |
 | James Grahame - 1836 - 486 páginas
...cherished through life, by maintaining in the thesis which gained him his literary degree, that " it is lawful to resist the supreme magistrate, if the commonwealth cannot otherwise be preserved." A sincere and devout puritan in religion, grave in his manners, pure in his morals, simple, frugal,... | |
 | James Herring - 1839 - 526 páginas
...Harvard university at an early age, and graduated in 1740, when he discussed the following question, " Whether it be lawful to resist the supreme magistrate,...otherwise be preserved." He maintained the affirmative in the presence of the king's governor and council ; and thus evinced, at that early period, his attachment... | |
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On the latter occasion, he proposed the following question for discussion, " whether it be lawful to resist the supreme magistrate, if the commonwealth cannot otherwise be preserved? 
