 | 1830 - 604 oldal
...philosopher, would form no useless addition to the education of the citizen, who is at present taught that he has nothing to do with the laws but to obey them, whether in politics or in morals. I will admit that obedience to the acts of his legislature is the... | |
 | John Hassell - 1819 - 216 oldal
...spoilation of the tenants of his forests by lords and lacqueys in office, who insultingly tell him, " he has nothing to do with the laws but to obey them." The fox-hunting establishment of the Duke of Grafton is kept up with considerable spirit at Sholbrook,... | |
 | William Johnson Fox - 1833 - 348 oldal
...good which we might realize. Their wisdom, their utility, their improvement, their adaptation , to th. wants and spirit of the age, are of the utmost importance....description of a good Christian or moral man. It is merehypocrisy to talk of living for human happiness, and yet profess indifference to the machinery... | |
 | sir Thomas Charles Morgan - 1841 - 726 oldal
...vagrants, poachers, or disreputable defendants ; nor cavils at the equivocal doings of the great unpaid. He has nothing to do with the laws, but to obey them ; or, at most, his activity goes but to the signing of a very proper petition, or addressing the throne... | |
 | Thomas Paine - 1908 - 436 oldal
...consider man merely as an animal; that the exercise of intellectual faculty is not his privilege ; that he has nothing to do with the laws but to obey them; * and they politically depend more •An expression used by Bishop Horsley in the Parliament of England.—Ed.... | |
 | Thomas Spence - 1920 - 228 oldal
...consider man merely as an animal; that the exercise of intellectual faculty is not his privilege ; that he has nothing to do with the laws, but to obey them ; 1 and they politically depend more upon breaking 1 Expression of Horsley, an English Bishop, in the... | |
 | Thomas Spence - 1920 - 228 oldal
...consider man merely as an animal; that the exercise of intellectual faculty is not his privilege ; that he has nothing to do with the laws, but to obey them ; 1 and they politically depend more upon breaking 1 Expression of Horsley, an English Bishop, in the... | |
 | Thomas Spence - 1920 - 232 oldal
...consider man merely as an animal; that the exercise of intellectual faculty is not his privilege ; that he has nothing to do with the laws, but to obey them ; 1 and they politically depend more upon breaking 1 Expression of Horsley, an English Bishop, in the... | |
 | Thomas Paine - 1995 - 944 oldal
...governments consider man merely as an animal; that the exercise of intellectual faculty is not his privilege; that he has nothing to do with the laws, but to obey them;* and they politically depend more upon breaking the spirit of the people by poverty, than they fear... | |
 | Christopher M. Duncan - 2000 - 274 oldal
...and wretchedness in the mass of people... [s]uch governments consider man merely as an animal . . . he has nothing to do with the laws but to obey them." 54 In such regimes there are few who are fit to be called citizens. With this final argument in place,... | |
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wants and spirit of the age, are of the utmost importance. Bishop Horsley's definition of a good subject, that ' he has nothing to do with the laws, but to obey them,' is certainly not the description of a good Christian or moral man. It is 
