 Power without right is the most odious and detestable object that can be offered to the human imagination. It is not only pernicious to those who are subject to it, but tends to its own destruction...  Orators of England - Page 118edited by - 1900Full view - About this book
 | John Taylor - Great Britain - 1818 - 434 pages
...legal authority. Within ' the bounds prescribed by the constitution, that ' authority is necessary to the well-being of the ' people : beyond that line,...detestable ' object that can be offered to the human imagina* tion : it is not only pernicious to those who are ' subject to it, but tends to its own destruction.... | |
 | Caleb Bingham - Speeches, addresses, etc - 1821 - 312 pages
...and legal authority. Within the bounds prefcribed by the conftitution, that authority is neceflary to the well-being of the people : beyond that line, every...illegal ; it threatens tyranny to the people, and deftruction to the State. fovrer without right is the moft odious and deteftablc object that can be... | |
 | Edmund Henry Barker - Authorship - 1828 - 588 pages
...Regency, p. 223. in Mr. T.'s book.) " In the ' printed speech this passage is as follows : — ' Pow' er without right is the most odious and detestable ' object that can be offered to the imagination ; it is ' not only pernicious to those who are subject to it, ' but tends to its own destruction.... | |
 | Isaac Newhall - 1831 - 376 pages
...this instance the identity is brought home.' ' I heard it from Lord Chatham,' says Sir Philip, 'that power without right is the most odious and detestable...object that can be offered to the human imagination.' Mr Barker very properly asks, ' what evidence is there that Sir Philip was not hired to report these... | |
 | John Swinden - 1833 - 126 pages
...Regency, p. 223, in Mr. Taylor's book.) " In the printed speech this passage is as follows : — ' Power without right is the most odious and detestable object that can be offered to the imagination ; it is not only pernicious to those who are subject to it, but tends to its own destruction.... | |
 | Englishmen - 1837 - 528 pages
...their name, which they cannot and ought not to do for themselves? I beard it from Lord Chatham, ' that power without right is the most odious and detestable...that can be offered to the human imagination' It is at once res deteslabilis et caduca.' Let who will assume such power, it ought to be resisted. Brave... | |
 | English literature - 1852 - 618 pages
...denounced (Jan. 9, 1770") the proceedings of the House of Commons on the Middlesex election : — ' Power without right is the most odious and detestable...the human imagination. It is not only pernicious to ttee who are subject to it, but leads to its own destruction. It is what my noble friend (Lord Lyttelton)... | |
 | 1838 - 596 pages
...illegal, threatening tyranny to the people, destruc' tion to the state. Power without right is the most detestable ' object that can be offered to the human...imagination ; it is not ' only pernicious to those whom it subjects, but works its own ' destruction. Res detettabilis et caduca. Under pretence of '... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - American periodicals - 1838 - 604 pages
...illegal, threatening tyranny to the people, destruction to the state. Power without right is the most detestable object that can be offered to the human imagination; it is not only pernicious to those whom it subjects, but works its destruction, Res dctestabais el caduca. Under pretence of declaring... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - Great Britain - 1839 - 434 pages
...illegal, threatening tyranny to the people, destruction to the state. Power without right is the most detestable object that can be offered to the human imagination ; it is not only pernicious to those whom it subjects, but works its own destruction. Res detestdbilis et caduca. Under pretence of declaring... | |
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