...existence of a free Government itself. If you choose to adopt the principle of Bishop Horsley, that the people have nothing to do with the laws but to obey, them, then, indeed, you may deprecate agitation ; but, while we live in a free country, and under a free...

...arms and legs, and his politics were stubborn and easily understood. He thought, with Horsley, that " the people have nothing to do with the laws but to obey them." I had lived with the old gentleman all my life. My parents, in dying, had bequeathed me to him as a...

...reprobate agitation, merely as agitation, unless he is prepared to adopt the maxim of Bishop Horsley, that the people have nothing to do with the laws but to obey them. The truth is that agitation is inseparable from popular government. If you wish to get rid of agitation,...

...principles of a Sidney and a Hampden, than with those of a Filmer and his modern disciple who declared that the people have nothing to do with the laws but to obey them. We would not, then, that the political world were lulled asleep, and that people's minds were drawn...

...more modern and compendious doctrine which Horsley summed up in one comprehensive sentence, " that the people have nothing to do with the laws but to obey them !" On the contrary, it was the opinion of Mr Pitt that power -ought, under the English constitution,...

...condition of England, throughout the sixteenth century. The people in those days were conceived to " have nothing to do with the laws but to obey them," and therefore a line of conduct was marked out for them, even in food, clothing, wages, and dwellings,...

...Dissenters," and the advice given to them is, at all events, in accordance with his celebrated dictum, " that the people have nothing to do with the laws but to obey them." Mr. Wellbeloved found many congenial minds among his fellow-students at Hackney. It may be sufficient...

...reprobate agitation, merely as agitation, unless he is prepared to adopt the maxim of Bishop Horsley, that the people have nothing to do with the laws but to obey them. The truth is that agitation is inseparable from popular government. If you wish to get rid of agitation,...

...principles of a Sidney and a Hampden, than with those of a Filmer and his modern disciple, who declared that the people have nothing to do with the laws but to obey them. We would not, then, that the political world were lulled asleep, and that peoples' minds where drawn...

...existence of a free government itself. If they chose to adopt the principle of Bishop Horsley, that the people have nothing to do with the laws but to obey them, then, indeed, they might deprecate agitation ; but in a free country and under a free government, the...