 | Thornhagh Gurdon - 1731 - 470 Seiten
...Maintenance. That as to difpute what God may do is Blafphemy, fo it is Sedition in Subjects to difpute what a King may do in the Height of his Power. I TO/'// not be content that my Power be diffuted upon. In this Parliament a great Parcel of Grievances... | |
 | John Millar - 1803 - 520 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Henry St. John Bolingbroke (Viscount) - 1809 - 472 Seiten
...themselves within the limits 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 Seiten
...but what God wzV/«, 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 Seiten
...was wrapt up in the awful mystery of his prerogative: and, in a word, that " it was sedition for them to. dispute what a king may do in the height of his power"." « • •• I * *•• ••. ' !«•• ' ' -^ •/. ^ Such, you know, was "the language, the public language'... | |
 | Richard Hurd (bp. of Worcester.) - 1811 - 456 Seiten
...Vvrapt up in the awful mystery of his prerogative : atid, in a word, that " it was sedition for them to dispute what a king may do in the height of his power"." Such, you know, was the language, public language to his parliaments, of JAMES n Speech to the lords... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1811 - 506 Seiten
...balances of a mixed monarchy. Reverting to the time when it was declared from the throne to be sedition to dispute " what a king may do in the height of his power," and the doctrine was re-echoed by prelates who entitled his Majesty " the breath of their nostrils,"... | |
 | William Harris - 1814 - 458 Seiten
...dispute and discusse; for to dispute a posse ad esse is both against logicke and divinitie: so is it sedition in subjects to dispute what a king may do in the height of his power*." These passages shall suffice to shew James's notions of the regal power ; their opposition to those... | |
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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. 
