| John Winthrop - Massachusetts - 1826 - 440 pages
...churches, would occasion infinite trouble and expense, and yet leave the issue to the sword. I expostulated about the unwarrantableness and unsafeness of referring...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 jurisdiction at... | |
| John Winthrop - 1826 - 452 pages
...churches, would occasion infinite trouble and expense, and yet leave the issue to the sword. I expostulated about the unwarrantableness and unsafeness of referring...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 jurisdiction at... | |
| John Winthrop - Massachusetts - 1826 - 446 pages
...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...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 jurisdiction at... | |
| John Winthrop - 1853 - 520 pages
...churches, would occasion infinite trouble and expense, and yet leave the issue to the sword. I expostulated about the unwarrantableness and unsafeness of referring...and thou shalt bring the matter to the judge, etc. 3. That they did still exercise jurisdiction at Agawam,1 though one of their commissioners disclaimed... | |
| Thomas Hooker - 1859 - 32 pages
...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... | |
| Bible - 1895 - 816 pages
...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... | |
| United States - 1868 - 474 pages
...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... | |
| Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1868 - 852 pages
...of America. He was opposed to an unlimited democracy, for he said : ' The best part of a community is always the least, and of that best part the wiser part is always the lesser.' He kept a journal up to 1649, two books of which were published in 1790; and the third, found in the... | |
| Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1868 - 858 pages
...of America. He was opposed to an unlimited democracy, for he said : ' The best part of a community is always the least, and of that best part the wiser part is always the lesser.' He kept a journal up to 1649, two books of which were published in 1790; and the third, found in the... | |
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