 | Thomas Jones Rogers - United States - 1823 - 382 pages
...were conferred upon him. On the latter occasion, he proposed the following question for discussion, *' whether it be lawful to resist the .supreme magistrate, if the commonwealth cannot otherwise be preserved?" He maintained the affirmative of this proposition, and thus evinced, at this... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin French - United States - 1820 - 370 pages
...bachelor and master of arts. On the latter occasion, he proposed the following question for discu*ion : " Whether it be lawful to resist the supreme magistrate,...commonwealth cannot be otherwise preserved." He maintained the affirmative of this proposition, and thus evinced, at this early period of his life, his attachment... | |
 | 1863 - 538 pages
...side. He who, as a Harvard College student, in 1743, had main. tained the affirmative of the Thesis, " Whether it be lawful to resist the Supreme Magistrate, if the Commonwealth cannot otherwise be preserved," and who during those whole three-and-thirty years since had been training... | |
 | Declaration - 1827 - 364 pages
...were conferred upon him. On the latter occasion, he proposed the following question for discussion, " whether it be lawful to resist the supreme magistrate,...commonwealth cannot be otherwise preserved ?" He maintained the affirmative of this proposition, and thus evinced, at this early period of life, his attachment... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1829 - 638 pages
...its honors in 1740. When he took the degree of master, in 1743, he proposed the following question; "Whether it be lawful to resist the supreme magistrate,...commonwealth cannot be otherwise preserved ?" He maintained the affirmative, and this collegiate exercise furnished a very significant index to his subsequent... | |
 | Charles Augustus Goodrich - 1829 - 494 pages
...scientific attainments. On taking the degree of master, in 1743, he proposed the following question, " Whether it be lawful to resist the supreme magistrate,...commonwealth cannot be otherwise preserved ?" He maintained the affirmative ; and in this collegiate exercise furnished no dubious evidence of his attachment to... | |
 | Benjamin Waterhouse - Great Britain - 1831 - 482 pages
...graduated at the university of Cambridge in the year 1740, when he discussed the following thesis, " Whether it be lawful to resist the SUPREME MAGISTRATE, if the Commonwealth cannot otherwise be preserved ? " He maintained the affirmative, which was remarkable for that time and place... | |
 | William Allen - Electronic books - 1832 - 820 pages
...1740. When he commenced master of arts in 1743, he proposed the following question for discussion, Whether it be lawful to resist the supreme magistrate, if the commonwealth cannot otherwise be preserved ? He maintained the affirmative, and thus early showed his attachment to the... | |
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Whether it be lawful to resist the supreme magistrate, if the commonwealth cannot be otherwise preserved ?" He maintained the affirmative, and this collegiate exercise furnished a very significant index to his subsequent political career. 
