 | John Winthrop - 1826 - 452 páginas
...preeminence was therein yielded to the Massachusetts, and being again agreed, (only referred to consent &c.) in three months we had no answer from them; that 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 - 1826 - 440 páginas
...preeminence was therein yielded to the Massachusetts, and being again agreed, (only referred to consent &c.) in three months we had no answer from them; that 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 - 1826 - 446 páginas
...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... | |
 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1887 - 490 páginas
...Governor Winthrop, of Massachusetts had written him, in regard to judicature by the body of the people. " The best part is always the least and of that best part the wiser part is always the lesser." And Hooker had answered, " In matters of greater consequence, which concern the common good, a general... | |
 | Thomas Hooker - 1859 - 32 páginas
...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... | |
 | 1895 - 816 páginas
...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... | |
 | Robert Charles Winthrop - 1867 - 506 páginas
...frequently been cited as furnishing evidence as to his political principles. " I expostulated," says he, " about the unwarrantableness and unsafeness of referring...and thou shalt bring the matter to the judge, etc." A portion of this passage has often been torn from its context, and held up as if it were conclusive... | |
 | Robert Charles Winthrop - 1867 - 522 páginas
...frequently been cited as furnishing evidence as to his political principles. " I expostulated," says he, " about the unwarrantableness and unsafeness of referring...and thou shalt bring the matter to the judge, etc." A portion of this passage has often been torn from its context, and held up as if it were conclusive... | |
 | 1868 - 474 páginas
...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... | |
 | 1868 - 852 páginas
...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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... the best part is always the least, and of that best part the wiser part is always the lesser. 
