| John Gorton - 1851 - 690 páginas
...1722, and was educated at Harvard College ; where, when he took the degree of MA., in 1743, he proposed the question — " Whether it be lawful to resist...if the commonwealth cannot be otherwise preserved ?" when he maintained the affirmative. He engaged early in politics, and in 1 7(i6 obtained a place... | |
| Nahum Capen - 1851 - 424 páginas
...740. When he commenced Master of Arts in 1 743, he proposed the following question for discussion : Whether it be lawful to resist the supreme magistrate, if the commonwealth cannot otherwise be preserved ? He maintained the affirmative, and thus early showed his attachment to the... | |
| Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford, Henry Vethake - 1851 - 636 páginas
...took the degree of master, in 1743, he proposed the following question ; " Whether it be lawful tc resist the supreme magistrate, if the commonwealth cannot be otherwise preserved ?" He maintained the affirmative, and this collegiate exercise furnished a very significant index to his... | |
| 1853 - 514 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 ? " Pn quitting the university, he commenced the study of the law; but soon afterwards, at the request... | |
| Robert Rantoul (Jr.) - 1854 - 890 páginas
...characteristic of him who had maintained, on receiving his second degree at Harvard in 1743, that it was " lawful to resist the supreme magistrate, if the Commonwealth cannot be otherwise preserved," with the same sincere zeal with which he practised the thesis. When General Gage, after the battle,... | |
| William O. Blake - 1856 - 1122 páginas
...received its honors in 1740. When he took the degree of master, in 1743, he proposed the following question : ' Whether it be lawful to resist the supreme...the commonwealth cannot be otherwise preserved ?' He maintained the affirmative, and this collegiate exercise furnished a very significant index to his... | |
| W. O. Blake - 1856 - 1016 páginas
...honors in 1740. When he took the degree of master, in 1743, he proposed the following question : c Whether it be lawful to resist the supreme magistrate,,...the commonwealth cannot be otherwise preserved ?' He maintained the affirmative, and this collegiate exercise furnished a very significant index to his... | |
| John Witt Randall - 1856 - 266 páginas
...that have thus far preserved them in his family. 3. " Arguing that much vexed question" &c. " Is it lawful to resist the supreme magistrate, if the commonwealth cannot be otherwise preserved ? " The subject of his thesis on receiving the degree of AM, 1743 ; he maintained the affirmative.... | |
| 1857 - 624 páginas
...college, which retained many forms of the English Universities, he proposed as his thesis, and defended the affirmative of the question, Whether it be lawful to resist the supreme magistrate, \f the commonwealth cannot otherwite 5« pretenedf Thus early had his mind taken its bent, and formed... | |
| William Allen - 1857 - 926 páginas
...1740. When he commenced master of arts in 1743, he proposed the following question for discussion : " Whether it be lawful to resist the supreme magistrate, if the Commonwealth cannot otherwise be preserved ? " He maintained the affirmative, and thus early showed his attachment to the... | |
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