...imminent peril ; yet all who wrote in their defence were exposed to obloquy. A learned prelate asserted m the House of Lords that " the people had nothing to...of justiciary declared that " no man had a right to speak of the constitution unless he possessed landed property ;" and another affirmed, that " since...

...of disloyalty, and required blood letting." When a learned prelate on the bench of bishops asserted that " the people had nothing to do with the laws but to obey them," it might well be expected that a judge could be found to make the same assertion to a packed or subservient...

...devotion to his arbitrariness may be judged from the infamous sentiment of one of his bishops (Horsley), that the people had nothing to do with the laws but to obey them. With all this it was impossible not to admire his scornful indifference to the titles and wealth for...

...pale of the Constitution, and who — to use language which had once been used in another place — had nothing to do with the laws but to obey them, and yet who were the equals, in many respects, of those who enjoyed the civil rights and privileges of...

...create a character of servility and selfishness; tyranny in the state, represented by the judge who said that ' the people had nothing to do with the laws but to obey them/ and by the Iwroughmongering duke, who declared ' he might do what he would with his own ;' while in the...

...discussion of political principles. Among the disputants of the two great parties into which this c Juntry was divided, clergymen and other ministers took a...of justiciary declared that "no man had a right to speak of the constitution unless he possessed landed property ;" and another affirmed, that " since...

...duty is to obey the laws; and it is not many years ago, that HORSLEY, Bishop of Rochester, told us, that the people had nothing to do with the laws but to obey them. The truth is, however, that the citizen's first duty is to maintain his rights, as it is the purchaser's...

...these rash words, as well as another insolent phrase dropped by Bishop Horsley, in the Upper House, that the people had nothing to do with the laws but to obey them, were long remembered, and quoted by those who would represent the Court as engaged in a systematic...

...of their apologists says, " they made laws which they enforced without rendering any reason, holding that the people had 'nothing to do with the laws but to obey them.' They explored many regions of natural science, giving the people the results in the form of divination...

...these rash words, as well as another insolent phrase dropped by Bishop Horsley, in the Upper House, that the people had nothing to do with the laws but to obey them, were long remembered, and quoted by those who would represent the Court as engaged in a systematic...