 | William Boyd Carpenter - Church of England - 1900 - 614 pages
...the answer, the danger of a mistaken answer was no unreal one. The King's .views were made known. " 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... | |
 | Philip Van Ness Myers - History, Modern - 1901 - 944 pages
...authority can in no way be questioned or limited by people, priest, or parliament. His own words were, " As it is atheism and blasphemy to dispute what God can do, so it is high contempt in a subject to dispute what a king can do, or to say that the king cannot do... | |
 | Pennsylvania - 1906 - 584 pages
...doctrine which bishops preached from the pulpit and for which brave men laid their heads upon the block. " As it is Atheism and blasphemy to dispute what God can do," said James in a speech in the Star Chamber, " so it is presumption and a high contempt in a subject... | |
 | Erica Quest - Geology - 1908 - 336 pages
...throne he claimed that a King was free from control by law, and in a speech afterwards he declared that "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... | |
 | Alfred Maurice Low - National characteristics, American - 1909 - 456 pages
...better than did her successor, James I, and had more tact than to put into words what he expressed,—" 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," — but she was... | |
 | Harry Levi - English fiction - 1911 - 190 pages
...also in life. The leaven however was at work. Early in the 17th century King James I had declared that "As it is atheism and blasphemy to dispute what God can do, so it is presemuption and a high contempt in a subject to dispute what the king can do". For a century... | |
 | Charles Eyre Pascoe - Coronations - 1911 - 124 pages
...shrewdness and learning only left him, in the phrase of Henry IV., ' the wisest fool in Christendom.' " " 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... | |
 | William Muir - Bible - 1911 - 296 pages
...right of kings to rule, in the sense in which the Stewarts asserted it. James himself declared that ' 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... | |
 | Vincent Arthur Smith - Great Britain - 1912 - 392 pages
...condensing his theory in the maxim, ' No bishop, no king.' He was bold enough to declare officially 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 to say that a... | |
 | William Stearns Davis, Norman Shaw McKendrick - Europe - 1914 - 652 pages
...the powers of royalty were decisive. In his own eyes he was an absolute and irresponsible monarch. " As it is atheism and blasphemy to dispute what God can do," he once asserted, " so it is presumption and high treason for a subject to dispute what a king can... | |
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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. 
