 | John Winthrop - 1826 - 440 Seiten
...the churches, would occasion infinite trouble and expense, and yet leave the issue to the sword. I expostulated about the unwarrantableness and unsafeness...wiser part is always the lesser. The old law was, choose ye out judges &c. and thou shalt bring the matter to the judge &c. 3. That they did still exercise... | |
 | John Winthrop - 1826 - 452 Seiten
...the churches, would occasion infinite trouble and expense, and yet leave the issue to the sword. I expostulated about the unwarrantableness and unsafeness...wiser part is always the lesser. The old law was, choose ye out judges &c. and thou shalt bring the matter to the judge &c. 3. That they did still exercise... | |
 | John Winthrop - 1826 - 446 Seiten
...leave the issue to the sword. I expostulated about the unwarrantableness and unsafeness of referrmg matter of counsel or judicature to the body of the...wiser part is always the lesser. The old law was, choose ye out judges &c. and thou shalt bring the matter to the judge &c. 3. That they did still exercise... | |
 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1887 - 490 Seiten
...Governor Winthrop, of Massachusetts had written him, in regard to judicature by the body of the people. " The best part is always the least and of that best part the wiser part is always the lesser." And Hooker had answered, " In matters of greater consequence, which concern the common good, a general... | |
 | John Winthrop - 1853 - 520 Seiten
...the churches, would occasion infinite trouble and expense, and yet leave the issue to the sword. I expostulated about the unwarrantableness and unsafeness...wiser part is always the lesser. The old law was, choose ye out judges, etc., and thou shalt bring the matter to the judge, etc. 3. That they did still... | |
 | Thomas Hooker - 1859 - 32 Seiten
...but to "set the bounds and limitations of their power and place;" the other was firmly persuaded of "the unwarrantableness and unsafeness of referring...that best part the wiser part is always the lesser ; " and declared that " the people, having deputed others, have no power to make or alter laws, but... | |
 | 1895 - 816 Seiten
...unwarrantableness and unsafeness of referring matters of counsel or judicature to the body of the people, because the best part is always the least, and of that best part the wiser part is always the lesser." Mr. Hooker replied that the judges must simply enforce the law, and the general counsel should be chosen... | |
 | Robert Charles Winthrop - 1867 - 506 Seiten
...frequently been cited as furnishing evidence as to his political principles. " I expostulated," says he, " about the unwarrantableness and unsafeness of referring...wiser part is always the lesser. The old law was, Choose ye out judges, etc., and thou shalt bring the matter to the judge, etc." A portion of this passage... | |
 | Robert Charles Winthrop - 1867 - 522 Seiten
...frequently been cited as furnishing evidence as to his political principles. " I expostulated," says he, " about the unwarrantableness and unsafeness of referring...wiser part is always the lesser. The old law was, Choose ye out judges, etc., and thou shalt bring the matter to the judge, etc." A portion of this passage... | |
 | 1868 - 474 Seiten
...descendants are not as proud as they ought to be, when lie said of the body of the people — "Тив BEST " PART IS ALWAYS THE LEAST, AND OF THAT BEST " PART THE WISER PART IS ALWAYS THE LESSER." It is a libel on Johnson to call him a democrat, in any sense. He was a Puritan, and his Editor's apology... | |
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... the best part is always the least, and of that best part the wiser part is always the lesser. 
