 | Thornhagh Gurdon - 1731 - 470 Seiten
...Defence and Maintenance. That as to difpufe 'what God may do is Blafphemy, fo it is Sedition in Subjects to difpute 'what a King may do in the Height of his Power. I will not be content that my Power be diffuted upon. In this Parliament a great Parcel of Grievances... | |
 | Rapin de Thoyras (M., Paul) - 1732 - 666 Seiten
...in exprefs Terms ; Ib&t as to difpute what God may do, it Blafphemy j fo is it Sedition in Subjefts to difpute what a King may do in the height of his Power *. Hence ic was eaiy tq infer, he fet no Bounds to the Prerogative Royal. The Occafion of calling the... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1762 - 540 Seiten
...for to difpute a poffe ad e//e, is both againft Logic and Divinity : fo is it fedition in Iubjedls to difpute what a King may do in the height of his power; but juft Kings will ever be willing to declare what they will do, if they will not incur the Curie... | |
 | 1763 - 498 Seiten
...lawfully, and do ori ' dinarilv, difpute anddifcuf*; for to difpute a poffe ad * it Sedition in Subjects to difpute what a King may *do in the Height of his Power ; butjuft Kings will *ever be-willing to declare what they will do, if ' they will not incur the Curfe... | |
 | Henry St. John Bolingbroke (Viscount) - 1768 - 338 Seiten
...U i " v,t " yet as it is bhfphemy to difpute what God ma^r '.' do, fo it is'fedition in fubjcCts'to difpute what a " king may do, in the height of his power." Tbeie doctrines were new, ungrateful, and fhocking to Englifh ears ; yet the parliament kept in temper,,... | |
 | 1770 - 466 Seiten
...blafphemy in a creature to difpute wha: the deity may do, fo it is preemption and fedition in a fubjedl to difpute what a King may do in the height of his powers : Good Chriftians, he adds, will be content with GOD's will, revealed in his word ; and good... | |
 | William Harris - 1772 - 292 Seiten
...to " difpute a piffi ade]Je is both againil logicke and divi" nitie: fo is it fedition in fubjects, to difpute what a . « king may do in the height of his power." (e) Thefe paflages ftiall fuffice to (hew 'James's notions of the regal power; their oppofition to... | |
 | Joseph Townsend - 1781 - 342 Seiten
...regard to his prerogative, " as to difpute what God may do, is blafphemy, fo is it fedition in fubje&s to difpute what a king may do in the height of his power *." We cannot be furprized to hear fuch fentiments from him j this is the common language of defpotifm... | |
 | William Belsham - 1789 - 482 Seiten
...acceffion, were of confequence naturalized in both. He openly aiferted it to be fedition in fubjects to difpute what a king may do in the height of his power. Soon after the death of the Earl of Salifbury, AD 1613, a parliament was fummoned ; and the lofs of... | |
 | Sir William Blackstone - 1791 - 518 Seiten
...blafphemy in a creature to difpute what the deity may do, " fo it is prefumption and fedition in a fubjecl to difpute " what a king may do in the height of his power: go0d " chnflians, he adds, will be content with God's will, re" vealed in his word; and good fubjc£ts... | |
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to difpute what a king may do in the height of his power SUCH, you know, was the language, the public language to his parliaments, of JAMES 
