 | Thomas Jones Rogers - United States - 1823 - 382 pages
...upon him. On the latter occasion, 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 of this proposition, and thus evinced, at this period of his life, his... | |
 | 1863 - 538 pages
...a Harvard College student, in 1743, had main. tained the affirmative of the Thesis, " Whether it be lawful to resist the Supreme Magistrate, if the Commonwealth cannot otherwise be preserved," and who during those whole three-and-thirty years since had been training up himself and training up... | |
 | Abiel Holmes - America - 1829 - 606 pages
...resistere liceat si aliter servari republics nequit ? " Jlffirmat Respondent, Samuel Adams. "Whether it is lawful to resist the supreme Magistrate, if the Commonwealth cannot otherwise be preserved ? " Affirmed by Samuel Adams. When the trial came, he adhered to the principle. No man was more decided... | |
 | Benjamin Waterhouse - Great Britain - 1831 - 482 pages
...the university of Cambridge in the year 1740, when he discussed the following thesis, " Whether it be lawful to resist the SUPREME MAGISTRATE, if the Commonwealth cannot otherwise be preserved ? " He maintained the affirmative, which was remarkable for that time and place ; for it wae in presence... | |
 | William Allen - Electronic books - 1832 - 820 pages
...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.... | |
 | United States - 1834 - 426 pages
...upon him. On the latter occasion, 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 of this proposition, and thus evinced, at this period of his life, his... | |
 | Edward Everett - Lexington, Battle of, Lexington, Mass., 1775 - 1835 - 80 pages
...oppression was his vocation. On taking his second degree, he maintained the noble thesis, that it is " lawful to resist the supreme magistrate, if the Commonwealth cannot otherwise be preserved." Thus at the age of twenty-one, twenty years before the stamp act was thought of, Samuel Adams, from... | |
 | James Grahame - United States - 1836 - 480 pages
...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, pure in his morals, simple, frugal,... | |
 | James Grahame - United States - 1836 - 486 pages
...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, pure in his morals, simple, frugal,... | |
 | Edward Everett - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1836 - 652 pages
...oppression was his vocation. On taking his second degree, he maintained the noble thesis, that it is ' lawful to resist the supreme magistrate, if the commonwealth cannot otherwise be preserved.' Thus, at the age of twenty-one, twenty years before the stamp act was thought of, Samuel Adams, from... | |
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Is it lawful to resist the supreme magistrate if the commonwealth cannot otherwise be preserved? 
