 | Horace Smith - 1830 - 382 pages
...choleric, and obstinate ; at once weak and severe, uxorious and inconstant ; infatuated with a vain notion of the divine right of kings, and the duty of passive obedience, in subjects ; and that his religion, so far from its being an ennobling and purifying principle, emasculated... | |
 | John Britton - 1836 - 468 pages
...settled an annuity on the poor man's widow WILLIAM LAUD was translated to the see of Canterbury in 1633. At a period remarkable for the violence of party spirit,..." divine right of kings," and the duty of passive obdience in their subjects. These doctrines he maintained with the most devoted and relentless zeal,... | |
 | Thomas Smyth - 1843 - 348 pages
...every principle of republicanism, and irreconcilable with freedom. The theory of those who advocate the divine right of kings, and the duty of passive obedience in all subjects, is embraced in these two propositions, that all government is absolute monarchy, and... | |
 | Horace Smith - 1844 - 310 pages
...definite limits. Several great questions had been decided and placed beyond the reach of future cavil. The divine right of kings, and the duty of passive obedience in subjects, were consigned for ever to the burial place of untenable and exploded superstitions. The... | |
 | 1860 - 492 pages
...us those duties which his office requires." Language could hardly convey a more complete assertion of the divine right of kings, and the duty of passive obedience on the part of the governed. Any oppression, however intolerable, might find a shelter beneath so broad... | |
 | John Bruce Norton - 1870 - 350 pages
...Supporter of Despotism, refers all Government to God's will, because they hence argue the necessity of the divine right of Kings, and the duty of passive obedience. 1. The Stoics called this natural inclination to society on S' av TIC, wu tv rats irXavcue we OIKEIOV... | |
 | 1890 - 980 pages
...benighted subjects. He made a Collection of Good Books in favor of Truth and Virtue, in which the doctrine of the divine right of kings and the duty of passive obedience on the part of their subjects were taught in the most emphatic terms. These cheaply printed pamphlets... | |
 | George Gresley Perry - 1879 - 724 pages
...raised to the Episcopal bench. Blackball, selected to preach before the queen, enunciated llie doctrine of the divine right of kings and the duty of passive obedience. To this sermon Hoadly wrote a reply, and was answered by Blackball. The controversy oa to the origin... | |
 | George Girling - 1880 - 142 pages
...matters to an issue. The first monarch of that house on the throne of England had laid down the doctrine of the Divine Right of kings, and the duty of passive obedience; but from a natural timidity of character had avoided a collision with the people. His son and successor... | |
 | George Girling - 1882 - 202 pages
...to an issue. 2. The first monarch of that house on the throne of England had laid down the doctrine of the Divine Right of kings, and the duty of passive obedience; but from a natural timidity of character had avoided a collision with the people. His son and successor,... | |
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Blackball, selected to preach before the queen, enunciated the doctrine of the divine right of kings and the duty of passive obedience. 
