 | John Frost - 1854 - 775 trang
...cherished through life, by maintaining, in the thesis which gained him his literary degree, that " it is lawful to resist the supreme magistrate, if the commonwealth cannot otherwise be preserved." A sincere and devout Puritan in religion, grave in his manners, austerely pure in his morals, simple,... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - 1855 - 410 trang
...growth, for in 1743, when he received the degree of Master of Arts, he proposed for discussion the question, "Is it lawful to resist the supreme magistrate,...if the commonwealth cannot otherwise be preserved ?" He maintained the affirmative, with great vigor. His pen was early employed in political discussion,... | |
 | John Witt Randall - 1856 - 266 trang
...traditions that have thus far preserved them in his family. 3. " Arguing that much vexed question" &c. " Is it lawful to resist the supreme magistrate, if the commonwealth cannot be otherwise preserved ? " The subject of his thesis on receiving the degree of AM, 1743 ; he maintained... | |
 | 1857 - 432 trang
...in 1743, when he received the degree of Master of Arts, he proposed for discussion the question, "la it lawful to resist the supreme magistrate, if the commonwealth cannot otherwise be preserved?" He maintained the affirmative, with great vigor. His pen was early employed in political discussion,... | |
 | William Allen - 1857 - 930 trang
...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 liberties of the people.... | |
 | George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - 1859 - 794 trang
...subject he chose for his thesis upon taking his degree of AM lie proposed as a question, " Whether it be lawful to resist the supreme magistrate, if the commonwealth cannot otherwise be preserved ?" — as to which he supported the affirmative. Not succeeding in business, he obtained the post of... | |
 | Frank Moore - 1859 - 618 trang
...Universities, he proposed as his thesis, and defended the affirmative of the question, Whether it oe x&% 3 B2 9O_ #LdBw, 5Q, Jp vf襞 ˸c O 5Ϣ M { & jM-csercedf Thus early had his mind taken its bent, and formed that system of political opinions to... | |
 | William Vincent Wells - 1865 - 562 trang
...The question proposed by Mr. Adams, the affirmative of which he defended, was this, " Whether it be lawful to resist the Supreme Magistrate, if the Commonwealth cannot otherwise be preserved ? " So early was he in avowing an opinion scarcely contemplated at that day, unless in the retirement... | |
 | United States. Bureau of Education - 1879 - 202 trang
...immortal: "An supremo magistratni resistere liceret, si aliter servari rtspublica nequitf " ("Whether it be lawful to resist the supreme magistrate, if the commonwealth cannot otherwise be preserved.") While Thomas Jefferson was yet an infant in his cradle, on the beautiful banks of the.Rivanna, this... | |
 | Francis Samuel Drake - 1872 - 1046 trang
...in 1743, he proposed, and took the affirmative in the discussion of, the question, " Whether it be lawful to resist the supreme magistrate, if the commonwealth cannot otherwise be preserved ? " About the same time he pub. a pamphlet called Englishmen's Rights. Unsuccessful as a merchant,... | |
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Is it lawful to resist the supreme magistrate if the commonwealth cannot otherwise be preserved? 
