 Church preferment;' and in another place (p. 275) says that 'he often lays down with great confidence what turns out afterwards to be wrong.' In the House of Lords he once said that ' he did not know what the mass of the people in any country had to do...  A tar of the last war, sir C. Richardson - Página 47por Charles Edward Armstrong - 1855Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Edmund Burke - 1800 - 786 páginas
...wus attempted by perlbns incompetent to judge of their propriety ; nor did he know, " what the mafs of .the people, in any country, had to do with the laws, but to obey them." An observation of this nature, drew, from the duke of Bedford, and the earl of Lauderdivlej the ut3... | |
 | 1800 - 776 páginas
...was attempted by perlons incompetent to judge of their propriety ; nor did he know, " what the mat of the people, in any country, had to do , with the laws, but to obey them." An observation of this nature, drew, from the duke of Bedford, and the earl of .Lauderdale, the ut>... | |
 | William Belsham - 1802 - 592 páginas
...difcuffions of fuch topics ought to be prevented ; and that he did not know, in fact, what the mafs of the people in any country had to do with the laws but to obey them.' "This do&rine," his grace faid, "from the mouth of a mufti, might be attributed to ignorance ; but when pronounced... | |
 | 1808 - 540 páginas
...topics ought to be prevented ; and that he did not know in fact, what the mass of the L J. 4 people people in any country had to do with the laws but to obey them." " This doctrine," his grace said, " in the mouth of a mufti might be attributed to ignorance, but when pronounced... | |
 | Thomas Northmore - 1809 - 274 páginas
...that public discussions of such topics ought to be prevented : and I hat he did not know, in fact, what the mass of the people in any country had to do with the fairs but to obey them." Ye Lockcs ! ye Sidneys! ye Hampdens ! ye Franklins ! I think I see your noble... | |
 | Thomas Browne (LL.D.) - 1810 - 514 páginas
...such topics ought to be prevented ; and that he did not know in fact, what the mass of the peoplein any country had to do with the laws but to obey them." " This doctrine," his grace said, " in the mouth of a mufti might be attributed to ignorance, but when pronounced... | |
 | Thomas Burgeland Johnson - 1812 - 546 páginas
...meetings, for the discussion of the laws where the people were not competent to decide upon them. In fact, he did not know what the " mass of the people in any...country had to do with the laws, but to obey them" The earl of Lauderdale observed, that if he had heen in Turkey, and heard such a declaration from the... | |
 | William Cobbett - 1818 - 812 páginas
...meetings for the discussion of the laws where the' people were not competent to decide upon them. In fact, he did not know what the mass of the people in any country had to do with the laws but to obey them, with the reserve ef their undoubted right to pe'tition against any particular law, as n grievance on... | |
 | George Wingrove Cooke - 1837 - 694 páginas
...these bills liable to transportation. But he could see no injustice in the enactment, " he, in fact, did not know what the mass of the people in any country had to do with the laws but to obey them." The minority in the lords against the third reading amounted to 5, which was increased by proxies to... | |
 | Henry Thomas Buckle - 1857 - 882 páginas
...Bishop Horeley, the great champion of the existing state of thiugs, said in the House of Lords, iu 1795, that he " did not know what the mass of the people...country had to do with the laws, but to obey them." Cooke's Hist, of Party, vol. iii. p. 435. Compare (Jodwin on Population, p. 569. cumstance, that these... | |
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