 | George Bancroft - United States - 1852 - 490 pages
...king and people, be annulled. " A king," he added, ".who annuls or disallows laws of so salutary a nature, from being the father of his people, degenerates into a tyrant, and forfeits all right to obedience." At this assertion, the opposing counsel cried out aloud to the 15* CHAP. bench, " The gentleman... | |
 | James Fontaine - Huguenots - 1853 - 528 pages
...annulling or disallowing acts of so salutary a nature, from being the Father of his people degenerated into a Tyrant, and forfeits all right to his subjects' obedience ;" the more sober part of the audience were struck with horror. Mr. Lyons called out aloud, and with an honest... | |
 | GEORGE BANCROFT - 1856 - 472 pages
...king and people, be annulled. " A king," he added, " who annuls or disallows laws of so salutary a nature, from being the father of his people, degenerates into a tyrant, and forfeits all right to obedience." At this assertion, the opposing counsel cried out aloud to the 15* CHAP. bench, " The gentleman... | |
 | GEORGE BANCROFT - 1857 - 482 pages
...king and people, be annulled. " A king," he added, " who annuls or disallows laws of so salutary a nature, from being the father of his people, degenerates into a tyrant, and forfeits all right to obedience." At this assertion, the opposing counsel cried out aloud to the CHAP, bench, " The gentleman... | |
 | Pennsylvania - 1877 - 536 pages
...Amidst cries of treason he then took the ground on which the Revolution was afterwards fought, holding that "A King, by disallowing acts of a salutary nature,...and forfeits all right to his subjects' obedience." On 29th May, 1765, nine days after taking his seat for the first time in the Virginia House of Burgesses,... | |
 | Pennsylvania - 1877 - 560 pages
...Amidst cries of treason he then took the ground on which the Revolution was afterwards fought, holding that "A King, by disallowing acts of a salutary nature,...and forfeits all right to his subjects' obedience." On 29th May, 1765, nine days after taking his seat for the first time in the Virginia House of Burgesses,... | |
 | Pennsylvania - 1877 - 548 pages
...Amidst cries of treason he then took the ground on which the Revolution was afterwards fought, holding that "A King, by disallowing acts of a salutary nature,...and forfeits all right to his subjects' obedience." On 29th May, 1765, nine days after taking his seat for the first time in the Virginia House of Burgesses,... | |
 | George Bancroft - United States - 1884 - 708 pages
...compact be- \ tween king and people, be annulled. " A king who annuls or disallows laws of so salutary a nature, from being the father of his people degenerates into a tyrant and forfeits all right to obedience." At this assertion the opposing counsel cried out to the bench : " The gentleman has spoken... | |
 | George Bancroft - United States - 1883 - 524 pages
...compact between king and people, be annulled. " A king who annuls or disallows laws of so salutary a nature, from being the father of his people degenerates into a tyrant and forfeits all right to obedience." At this assertion the opposing counsel cried out to the bench : " The gentleman has spoken... | |
 | John Robert Irelan - Presidents - 1886 - 536 pages
...Of the interference of the king, he said that a king who annuls or disallows laws of so salutary a nature, from being the father of his people, degenerates into a tyrant, and forfeits all right to obedience. After defining the use of the Church and clergy, he said : — " When they fail to answer... | |
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who annuls or disallows laws of so salutary a nature, from being the father of his people, degenerates into a tyrant, and forfeits all right to obedience. 
