...let us not follow their example. We have heard strange doctrines maintained of late. We have heard " that the people have nothing to do with the laws, but to obey them;" and ^it has been said, " that the parliament belongs to the king, and not to the people." I hope we...

...pressure of grievances, and may not complain of them, we arc slaves indeed. To declare, therefore, that ' the people have nothing to do with the laws but to obey them,' was as fallacious as it was odious, f There was no ground for saying, that if people met to discuss...

...created it with your strong arms; but now we tell you that you are the villeins of the soil, and that you have nothing to do with the laws but to obey them." The noble Lord said that a great many things should be done for their benefit, though the condition of...

...on a fagot " —for fear of smothering out the fire. XLV. I am beginning to think with Horsely — that " the People have nothing to do with the laws but to obey them." XL VI. " It is not fair to review my book without reading it," says Mr. Mathews, talking at the critics,...

...pressure of grievances, and may not complain of them, we are slaves indeed. To declare, therefore, that 'the people have nothing to do with the laws but to obey them,' was as fallacious as it was odious.* There was no ground for saying, that if people met to discuss...

...just measures, but to the existence of a free Government itself. If you choose to adopt the principle of Bishop Horsley, that the people have nothing to do with the laws but to obey them, then, indeed, you may deprecate agitation ; but, while we live in a free country, and under a free...

...just measures, but to the existence of a free Government itself. If you choose to adopt the principle of Bishop Horsley, that the people have nothing to do with the laws but to obey them, then, indeed, you may deprecate agitation ; but while we live in a free country, and under a free Government,...

...just measures, but to the existence of a free Government itself. If you choose to adopt the principle of Bishop Horsley, that the people have nothing to do with the laws but to obey, them, then, indeed, you may deprecate agitation ; but, while we live in a free country, and under a free...

...and, accordingly, we find him in the present session declaring, in his place in the House of Lords, that " the people have nothing to do with the laws but to obey them." The government, too, had lately given countenance to writers, the absurd slavishness of whose doctrines...

...laughed with his arms and legs, and his politics were stubborn and easily understood. He thought, with Horsley, that " the people have nothing to do with the laws but to obey them." I had lived with the old gentleman all my life. My parents, in dying, had bequeathed me to him as a...