The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Band 30Historical Society of Pennsylvania., 1906 |
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... English throne , he had promul- gated the theory of an absolute royalty in his work on " The True Law of Free Monarchy , " and announced that " although a good King will form his actions according to law , yet he is not bound thereto ...
... English throne , he had promul- gated the theory of an absolute royalty in his work on " The True Law of Free Monarchy , " and announced that " although a good King will form his actions according to law , yet he is not bound thereto ...
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These words startled English ears and a debate to the death was begun . Thomas Hobbes , the greatest philosopher and thinker of the day , impressed with the views of Hooker , strove in his Leviathan to state the Matter , Form , and ...
These words startled English ears and a debate to the death was begun . Thomas Hobbes , the greatest philosopher and thinker of the day , impressed with the views of Hooker , strove in his Leviathan to state the Matter , Form , and ...
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... English Poets ; the second , a seasoned man of sixty , died on the scaffold , a martyr for the cause ; the third , a man but little older than Penn , and his companion at Oxford , proved himself to be the most renowned of English ...
... English Poets ; the second , a seasoned man of sixty , died on the scaffold , a martyr for the cause ; the third , a man but little older than Penn , and his companion at Oxford , proved himself to be the most renowned of English ...
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... English state trials of courage , determination , address and ample knowledge of the law on the part of any prisoner defending himself against the power of the Crown , entirely unaided by counsel , because in those days English law in ...
... English state trials of courage , determination , address and ample knowledge of the law on the part of any prisoner defending himself against the power of the Crown , entirely unaided by counsel , because in those days English law in ...
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... What say you , Mr. Mead , were you there ? " Mead . It is a maxim of English law that no man is bound to accuse himself . Why dost thou offer to ensnare me with such a question ? Is this like unto William Penn as a Law - Giver . 13.
... What say you , Mr. Mead , were you there ? " Mead . It is a maxim of English law that no man is bound to accuse himself . Why dost thou offer to ensnare me with such a question ? Is this like unto William Penn as a Law - Giver . 13.
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Seite 11 - Lords and Commons of England, consider what Nation it is whereof ye are, and whereof ye are the governors: a Nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious and piercing spirit, acute to invent, subtle and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point, the highest that human capacity can soar to.
Seite 28 - ... to support power in reverence with the people and to secure the people from the abuse of power; that they may be free by their just obedience, and the magistrates honorable for their just administration. For liberty without obedience is confusion, and obedience without liberty is slavery.
Seite 27 - Any government is free to the people under it (whatever be the frame) where the laws rule, and the people are a party to those laws, and more than this is tyranny, oligarchy, or confusion.
Seite 18 - Penn. I say it is my place to speak to matter of law. I am arraigned, a prisoner. My liberty, which is next to life itself, is now concerned. You are many mouths, and ears, against...
Seite 12 - What could a man require more from a nation so pliant and so prone to seek after knowledge? What wants there to such a towardly and pregnant soil but wise and faithful labourers, to make a knowing people, a nation of prophets, of sages and of worthies.
Seite 11 - ... of beleaguered truth, than there be pens and heads there, sitting by their studious lamps, musing, searching, revolving new notions and ideas wherewith to present as with their homage and their fealty the approaching reformation...
Seite 419 - It is allowed by those who have seen it to have great merit as a picture in every respect; but what particularly endears it to me is the hand that drew it. Our English enemies, when they were in possession of this city and my house, made a prisoner of my portrait, and carried it off with them, leaving that of its companion, my wife, by itself, a kind of widow. You have replaced the husband, and the lady seems to smile as well pleased.
Seite 159 - The Academy of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the city of Philadelphia.
Seite 9 - It is atheism and blasphemy to dispute what God can do; good Christians content themselves with his will revealed in his Word; so it is presumption and high contempt in a subject to dispute what a king can do; or to say that a king cannot do this or that; but rest in that which is the king's will revealed in his law.
Seite 31 - That all children within this province of the age of twelve years, shall be taught some useful trade or skill, to the end that none may be idle, but the poor may work to live, and the rich, if they become poor, may not want.