 | 1846 - 522 pagina’s
...under a bushel, and a sin against the honour of magistracy to neglect such in our public elections. But if God should not delight to furnish some of their...reproach and prejudice, and the commonwealth with them, rather than exalt them to honour, if we should call them forth, when God doth not, to public authority."... | |
 | Caleb Hopkins Snow - 1828 - 482 pagina’s
...with his honours to all his posterity : if God should not delight to furnish some of them with gifts for magistracy, we should expose them rather to reproach and prejudice, and the commonwealth with them, if we should call them forth to publick authority.' One instance of Mr. Cotton's conduct in a political... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1834 - 530 pagina’s
...under a bushel; and a sin against the honor of magistracy to neglect such in our public elections. But if God should not delight to furnish some of their...them forth, when God doth not, to public authority." 1 And thus the proposition for establishing hereditary nobility was defeated. The people, moreover,... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1834 - 532 pagina’s
...under a bushel ; and a sin against the honor of magistracy to neglect such in our public elections. But if God should not delight to furnish some of their...should call them forth, when God doth not, to public authority."1 And thus the proposition for establishing hereditary nobility was defeated. The people,... | |
 | 1837 - 666 pagina’s
...under a bushel, and a sin against the honour of magistracy to neglect such in our public elections. But if God should not delight to furnish some of their...and the commonwealth with them, than exalt them to honour, if we should call them forth, when God doth not, to public authority." We must now conclude.... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1841 - 368 pagina’s
...under a bushel, and a sin against the honor of magistracy to neglect such in our public elections. But if God should not delight to furnish some of their posterity with gifts tit for magistracy, we should expose them to reproach and prejudice, and the commonwealth with them,... | |
 | Emma Willard - 1843 - 500 pagina’s
...gifts fit for ma- ^-husettT gistracy, we should expose them rather to reproach and preju- 1630. dice, and the commonwealth with them, than exalt them to...them forth when God doth not, to public authority." For these sound reasons, the plan for hereditary nobility was set aside in New England, and these noblemen... | |
 | Emma Willard - 1852 - 560 pagina’s
...fit for ma- ^*chuscu»." gistracy, we should expose them rather to reproach and preju- 163O. dice, and the commonwealth with them, than exalt them to...them forth when God doth not, to public authority." For these sound reasons, the plan for hereditary noliility was set aside in New England, and those... | |
 | 1853 - 566 pagina’s
...talent under n bushel, and a sin against the honor of magistracy to neglect such in our elections. But if God should not delight to furnish some of their...them to honor, if we should call them forth, when God did not, to the magistracy." On the receipt of this answer, as might have been anticipated, the Lords... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1854 - 550 pagina’s
...under a bushel, and a sin against the honour of magistracy to neglect such in our public elections. But if God should not delight to furnish some of their...and the commonwealth with them, than exalt them to honour, if we should call them forth, when God doth not, to public authority." And thus the proposition... | |
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But, if God should not delight to furnish some of their posterity with gifts fit for magistracy, we should expose them rather to reproach and prejudice, and the commonwealth with them, than exalt them to honor, if we should call them forth, when God doth... 
