 | Robert Browning - 1892 - 406 Seiten
...upon them. He told them, after a comparison savouring of blasphemy, that it "was seditious in subjects to dispute what a king may do in the height of his power."1 They answered in a remonstrance of great strength and spirit, and of much learning.2 After... | |
 | George Walter Prothero - 1894 - 624 Seiten
...axiom of divinity, 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. But just kings will ever be willing to declare what they will do, if they will not iucur the curse... | |
 | Benjamin Terry - 1901 - 1156 Seiten
...they are called gods. ... as to dispute what God may do is blasphemy, so it is seditious in subjects to dispute what a king may do in the height of his power. ' ' ' When James readied London he found the court divided into two parties, as they favored continuing... | |
 | Arthur Wilson - 1904 - 252 Seiten
...jndged of none.... Yet as it is Blasphemy to dispute what God may do, so it is Sedition in Subjects to dispute what a King may do in the height of his power » (Cité par Wilson. Hist, of Great "Britain, p. 48). Aiulru. Je dois te tuer, Roi. Le Soi. Tu n'oseras... | |
 | Edward Potts Cheyney - 1904 - 416 Seiten
...are called gods. ... 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." "Encroach not. upon the prerogative of the crown; if there falls out a question that concerns my prerogative... | |
 | Charles Austin Beard - 1906 - 692 Seiten
...prerogative that had no limits. As to dispute what God may do is blasphemy, so it is sedition in subjects to dispute what a king may do in the height of his power. I will not be content that my power be disputed on. The House of Commons, so he told its members, "derived... | |
 | Clyde Augustus Duniway - 1906 - 232 Seiten
...March 21, 1610 : "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" (Ibid. 294). James I held himself to be " above the law by his absolute power," a doctrine to which... | |
 | Charles Bastide - 1907 - 426 Seiten
...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, Wks, dans Lecky. HE III, 557. 3. That which concerna the mystery of the King's power is not lawful... | |
 | Eri Baker Hulbert - 1908 - 512 Seiten
...himself they are called gods. As to dispute what God may do is blasphemy, so it is seditious in subjects to dispute what a king may do in the height of his power. To this doctrine the Anglican church gave its approving and emphatic assent, curtailing it by neither... | |
 | Edward Potts Cheyney - 1908 - 830 Seiten
...axiom of divinity, 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. But just kings wiH ever be willing to declare what they will do, if they will not incur the curse of... | |
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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. 
