...Tory panacea for unrest had been proclaimed in 1795 by Bishop Horsley when he said that ' the mass of the people had nothing to do with the laws but to obey them.' During the next twenty years the laws had almost invariably been used to make the mass of the people...

...Tory panacea for unrest had been proclaimed in 1795 by Bishop Horsley when he said that ' the mass of the people had nothing to do with the laws but to obey them.' During the next twenty years the laws had almost invariably been used to make the mass of the people...

...sermon preached before that august assembly on January 30, 1793, in which the good bishop asserted that the people had nothing to do with the laws but to obey them. He censured and lamented as folly all freedom of dispute on matters of such high importance as the...

...leading godfearing, useful lives, but all too ready to agree with Bishop Horsley that ' the mass of people had nothing to do with the laws but to obey them.' To his great sorrow Arnold discovered that he was drifting away from the traditional Oxford point of...

...of man'. Bishop Horsley's assertion in the House of Lords on 1 1 November 1795 - that 'the Mass of the People [had] nothing to do with the Laws, but to obey them' - had outraged Coleridge with its injunction to a passive and silent obedience, now to be enforced...

...order to incite his parishioners to come forward in the public cause. The genuine principles of trar admirable constitution were thought by many to be...leasing-making," or sedition, in Scotland, one of the Iiords of Justiciary declared, that " no man had a right to speak of the Constitution unless he jwssesscd...

...duty is to obey the laws; and it is not many years ago, that Horsley, Bishop of Rochester, told us, that the people had nothing to do with the laws but to obey them. The truth is, however, that the citizen's first duty is to maintain his rights, as it is the purchaser's...

...dislike to Bishop Horsley. That learned prelate, in the course of a speech in the House of Lords, said that " the people had nothing to do with the laws but to obey them." This sentiment, which at the time was much commented upon in the newspapers, excited Parr's indignation...

...useful classes of the community were considered mere heagts of burden, devoid of political rights, who had nothing to do with the laws but to obey them, and who toiled, lived, and were created, not for themselves, but for the sole bene» fit of their insolent...