 | William Blackstone - 1876 - 782 páginas
...had imbibed high notions of the divinity of regal sway, more than once laid it down in his speeches, that, " as it is atheism and 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:... | |
 | United States. Congress. House - 1880 - 1266 páginas
...ruler, makes it conceivable that even James I. could ever have used those words of sublime audacity : "As it is atheism and blasphemy in a creature to dispute...dispute what, a king may do in the height of his power." And I am jRTsuaded that the feeling so general even to this day, that it is a less offence to use the... | |
 | Dorman Bridgman Eaton - 1880 - 502 páginas
...ruler, makes it conceivable that even James I. could ever have used those words of sublime audacity : " As it is atheism and blasphemy in a creature to dispute...dispute what a king may do in the height of his power." And I am persuaded that the feeling so general even to this day, that it is a less offence to use the... | |
 | Dorman Bridgman Eaton - 1880 - 524 páginas
...ruler, makes it conceivable that even James I. could ever have used those words of sublime audacity : " As it is atheism and blasphemy in a creature to dispute...•what a king may do in the height of his power. '.' And I am persuaded that the feeling so general even to this day, that it is a less offence to use... | |
 | Henry John Stephen, James Stephen - 1880 - 824 páginas
...had imbibed high notions of the divinity of regal sway, more than once laid it down in his speeches, that " as it is atheism and blasphemy in a creature..." 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 power ; good Christians,"... | |
 | William Edward Hartpole Lecky - 1882 - 614 páginas
...Elizabeth directed her Parliaments to abstain from discussing matters of state, and when James I. declared that, ' as it is atheism and blasphemy in a creature...dispute what a king may do in the height of his power ;' but even after the Revolution, William III. had been a great political power, and Anne, though a... | |
 | Congregational union of England and Wales - 1882 - 284 páginas
...be judged by none. ... It is blasphemy to dispute what God might do ; so it is sedition in subjects to dispute what a king may do in the height of his power." You know how in the time of King Charles, divines like Sibthorp and Mainwaring echoed back this assumption... | |
 | James Penny Boyd - 1884 - 900 páginas
...James II., it bolstered itself with the dogma of the "divine right of kings," and James I. announced, "As it is atheism and blasphemy in a creature to dispute...dispute what a king may do in the height of his power." During his reign official corruption became more shameless than ever before. Popular intelligence was... | |
 | Henry C. Lockwood - 1884 - 504 páginas
...I'itt Tiswell-Langmcad, 144. See also Slubbs' "Cons. Hist." i., 337,338.] said, " It is atheism -?nd blasphemy, in a creature to dispute what the deity may do, so it is prest\mption and sedition in a subject to dispute what a king may do." It was laid down that the king... | |
 | Boston (Mass.). Registry Department - 1887 - 344 páginas
...in his speeches, that " as it was athesm and blashemy in a Creature to dispute what the Deity might do so it is presumption and sedition in a subject to dispute what a King might do in the height of his powers ; Good Christians he adds will be content with Gods will revealed... | |
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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. 
