 | Robert Charles Winthrop - Puritans - 1869 - 514 pages
...unwarrantableness and unsafeness of referring matter of counsel or judicature to the body of the people, quid the best part is always the least, and of that best...evidence that Governor Winthrop was in favor of an aristoeracy, and an opponent of every thing that looked towards the power of the people to govern themselves.... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1869 - 850 pages
...of America. He was opposed to аи 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... | |
 | George Bancroft - United States - 1876 - 584 pages
...need of further approval by the several states. He further " expostulated about the unwarrantablcness and unsafeness of referring matter of counsel or judicature...wiser part is always the lesser. The old law was, Thou shalt bring the matter to the judge, etc." In reply to this, Hooker expressed an unwillingness... | |
 | George Bancroft - United States - 1882 - 656 pages
...power of final decision, without need of approval by the several states. He further " expostulated about the unwarrantableness and unsafeness of referring...the wiser part is always the lesser. The old law was : Thou shalt bring the matter to the judge." In reply, Hooker expressed an unwillingness in the matter... | |
 | George Bancroft - United States - 1882 - 666 pages
...unwarrantableness and unsafeness of referring matter of counsel or judicature to the body of the people, quid the best part is always the least, and of that best...the wiser part is always the lesser. The old law was : Thou shalt bring the matter to the judge." In reply, Hooker expressed an unwillingness in the matter... | |
 | George Bancroft - United States - 1883 - 660 pages
...power of final decision, without need of approval by the several states. He further " expostulated about the unwarrantableness and unsafeness of referring...the wiser part is always the lesser. The old law was : Thou shalt bring the matter to the judge." In reply, Hooker expressed an unwillingness in the matter... | |
 | Alexander Johnston - History - 1887 - 450 pages
...unwarrantable and unsafe to refer 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." The people, or that better pztft of them who should be admitted to vote, were to choose the Court of Assistants... | |
 | George Bancroft - United States - 1888 - 658 pages
...unwarrantableness and unsafeness of referring matter of counsel or judicature to the body of the people, quid the best part is always the least, and of that best...the wiser part is always the lesser. The old law was : Thou shalt bring the matter to the judge." In reply, Hooker expressed an unwillingness in the matter... | |
 | Universalism - 1888 - 538 pages
...unsafe to refer matters of " counsel or judicature " to the body of the people, because, he said, " the best part is always the least, and of that best part the wiser part is always the lesser." Hooker, to whom Winthrop wrote this, laid down as the first of the fundamentals of his political science,... | |
 | James Kendall Hosmer - 1888 - 644 pages
...democratic community. Blood was respectfully deferred to. Wrote Winthrop : ' " The best part of a community is always the least, and of that best part the wiser part is always the lesser." In this expression Winthrop's associates in the management of affairs would undoubtedly have concurred.... | |
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... the best part is always the least, and of that best part the wiser part is always the lesser. 
