 | Law - 1918 - 494 pages
...irresponsibility to anything but his own royal will." In a speech in the star chamber he declared : "As it is atheism and blasphemy to dispute what God can do, so it is presumption and a high contempt in a subject to dispute what a king can do, or to say that... | |
 | Lucius Burrie Swift - Liberty - 1928 - 312 pages
...their absolute authority in law and gospel over every one. In a speech in the Star Chamber, he said, "As it is atheism and blasphemy to dispute what God can do, so it is presumption and high contempt in a subject to dispute what a King can do or to say that a... | |
 | American Bar Association - Bar associations - 1918 - 880 pages
...irresponsibility to anything but his own royal will." In a speech in the Star Chamber he declared : " As it is atheism and blasphemy to dispute what God can do, so it is presumption and a high contempt in a subject to dispute what a King can do, or to say that... | |
 | Linda Levy Peck - History - 2005 - 408 pages
...wing of greatness', since 'if a king be resolute to be a tyrant, all you can do will not hinder him'. As 'it is atheism and blasphemy to dispute what God can do', he declared in 1616, 'so it is presumption and high contempt in a subject to dispute what a king can... | |
 | Robert P. Merrix, Nicholas Ranson - Drama - 1992 - 320 pages
...(1989) uncovered important depositions for the winter of 1605-06 that bear on Macbeth, James notes that "As it is atheism and blasphemy to dispute what God can do, so it is presumption and high contempt in a subject to dispute what a King can do, or say that a King... | |
 | Eileen Jorge Allman - Drama - 1999 - 228 pages
...of parliament" (1991, 55); that he informed the Commons, who questioned him about impositions, that as "'it is atheism and blasphemy to dispute what God can do . . . , so it is presumption and high contempt in a subject to dispute what a king can do or say that... | |
 | Jonathan Scott - History - 2000 - 564 pages
...him a 'Doge of Venice ... No Christians but papists and puritans were ever of that opinion . . . [And as] it is atheism and blasphemy to dispute what God can do ... so it is presumption and high contempt in a subject to dispute what a king can do or to say that... | |
 | RC Agarwal - Political Science - 2004 - 580 pages
...breathing images of God upon earth", and disobedience to their dictates is the disobedience to God". "As it is atheism and blasphemy to dispute what God can do, so it is presumption and high contempt in a subject to dispute what a king can do or to say that a... | |
 | VD Mahajan - Political Science - 2006 - 936 pages
...law resided ultimately "in the breast of the kings. ""Kings are breathing images of God upon earth. As it is atheism and blasphemy to dispute what God can do, so it is presumption and high contempt in a subject to dispute what a king can do or to say that,a... | |
 | Eric Burns - History - 2006 - 328 pages
...that they would become spoiled by freedom and unmindful of where their responsibilities truly lay. "As it is atheism and blasphemy to dispute what God can do," the king said on one occasion, getting his tongue out of the way of his arrogance, "so it is presumption... | |
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As it is atheism and blasphemy to dispute what God can do, so it is presumption and a high contempt in a subject to dispute what a king can do, or to say that a king cannot do this or that. 
