 | George Bancroft - United States - 1882 - 666 pages
...emanation of divine power, capable of kindness, goodness, and charity ; having an opportunity of benevolent care for men of the highest attainments, even more...laws rule, and the people are a party to the laws." Penn was superior to avarice, and he had risen above ambition ; but he loved to do good ; and could... | |
 | George Bancroft - United States - 1883 - 660 pages
...emanation of divine power, capable of kindness, goodness, and charity ; having an opportunity of benevolent care for men of the highest attainments, even more...laws rule, and the people are a party to the laws." Penn was superior to avarice, and he had risen above ambition ; but he loved to do good ; and could... | |
 | William Robertson (of Rochdale.) - Great Britain - 1889 - 606 pages
...— 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... | |
 | George Bancroft - United States - 1888 - 658 pages
...of divine power, capable of kindness, goodness, and charity ;. having an opportunity of benevolent care for men of the highest attainments, even more...laws rule, and the people are a party to the laws." Penn was superior to avarice, and he had risen above ambition ; but he loved to do good ; and could... | |
 | George Bancroft - Great Britain - 1895 - 652 pages
...emanation of divine power, capable of kindness, goodness, and charity ; having an opportunity of benevolent care for men of the highest attainments, even more...laws rule, and the people are a party to the laws." Penn was superior to avarice, and he had risen above ambition ; but he loved to do good ; and could... | |
 | George Bancroft - United States - 1898 - 654 pages
...emanation of divine power, capable of kindness, goodness, and charity ; having an opportunity of benevolent care for men of the highest attainments, even more...laws rule, and the people are a party to the laws." Penn was superior to avarice, and he had risen above ambition ; but he loved to do good ; and could... | |
 | George Bancroft - United States - 1898 - 654 pages
...emanation of divine power, capable of kindness, goodness, and charity ; having an opportunity of benevolent care for men of the highest attainments, even more...laws rule, and the people are a party to the laws." Penn was superior to avarice, and he had risen above ambition ; but he loved to do good ; and could... | |
 | Henry Smith Williams - World History - 1904 - 768 pages
...thoughts on the government which he should establish. To him government was a part of religion itself. He believed "any government to be free to the people,...philanthropy resign absolute power, apparently so favourable to the exercise of vast benevolence ? Here, and here only, Penn's spirit was severely tried;... | |
 | Elroy McKendree Avery - United States - 1907 - 578 pages
...its government. He believed "any government to be free to the people under it (whatever the frame) where the laws rule and the people are a party to the laws." With deep consideration and probably with the wise counsel of Algernon Sydney and others, he prepared... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - United States - 1906 - 556 pages
..."Mercy and Jusand 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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... care for men of the highest attainments, even more than the office of correcting evil-doers ; and, without imposing one uniform model on all the world, without denying that time, place, and emergencies may bring with them a necessity or an excuse... 
