| Robert Walsh - 1829 - 532 頁
...he contended for. " Every government," he says in another passage, " is free, whatever be the frame, where the laws rule, and the people are a party to the laws. And more than this is tyranny, oligarchy, or confusion." We find him in several passages of his works... | |
| 1851 - 508 頁
...had announced in his promises to the colonists, but had never acted upon — " that any government is free to the people where the laws rule, and the people are a party to those laws." This constitution the Proprietary would never assent to, sanction, or recognize ; and... | |
| 1851 - 598 頁
...had announced in his promises to the colonists, but had never acted upon — " that any government is free to the people where the laws rule, and the people are a party to those laws." This constitution the Proprietary would never assent to, sanction, or recognize; and yet... | |
| George Bancroft - 1855 - 516 頁
...To him government was a part of religion itself, an emanation of divine power, capable of kindness, goodness, and charity ; having an opportunity of benevolent...philanthropy resign absolute power, apparently so favourable to the exercise of vast benevolence ? Here, and here only, Penn's spirit was severely tried;... | |
| George Bancroft - 1860 - 504 頁
...men of the highest attainments, even more than the office of correcting evil-doers ; and, \V-lhout imposing one uniform model on all the world, without...advancement in the court of Charles II. But he loved to dc good ; and could passionate philanthropy resign absolute power, apparently so favorable to the exercise... | |
| George Bancroft - 1860 - 504 頁
...for men of the highest attainments, even more than the office of correcting evil-doers ; and, w.lhout imposing one uniform model on all the world, without...and the people are a party to the laws." That Penn was_j,uperior to avarice, was clear from his lavish _ , r- T — -Ltj-Aui.******.**- ****** I expenditures... | |
| George Bancroft - 1864 - 522 頁
...an excuse for monarchical, or even aristocratical institutions, he believed "any government to»be free to the people, where the laws rule, and the people...high advancement in the court of Charles II. But he Ipved to do good ; and could passionate philanthropy resign absolute power, apparently so favorable... | |
| John Bright - 1866 - 88 頁
...freedom — uses these words : — " Any Government is free to the people under it, whatever be the frame where the laws rule, and the people are a party to the laws ; and more than this is tyranny, oligarchy, or confusion. " Now, let us ask ourselves, can it be fairly... | |
| John Bright - 1869 - 642 頁
...— uses these words : — ' Any government is free to the people under it, whatever be the frame, where the laws rule, and the people are a party to the laws; and more than this is tyranny, oligarchy, or confusion.' Now, let us ask ourselves, can it be fairly... | |
| Benson John Lossing - 1881 - 830 頁
...its institution and end ; that any government is free to the people under it, whatever be its frame, where the laws rule and the people are a party to the laws. He declared that governments depend upon men, not men upon governments; and he guaranteed liberty of... | |
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