 | Sherman B. Canfield - 1850 - 212 pages
...little or no abatement, adopted the opinions of * I refer, 1. To Milton's Pamphlet or Treatise, entitled "The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates : proving that...been held so, through all ages, for any who have the Sower, to call to account a tyrant or wicked King ; and, after due conviction, to depose and put im... | |
 | Cyrus R. Edmonds - 1851 - 272 pages
...and in every country in the world."* The title of the treatise now under notice is as follows : — "The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates: proving that...ordinary magistrate have neglected or denied to do it. And that they who of late so much blame deposing, are the men that did it themselves." Milton commences... | |
 | John Milton - Authors, English - 1851 - 428 pages
...foree of argument, majesty and riehness of language, it is not to bo surpassed." In 164S-9 he published "The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates: proving that...through all ages, for any, who have the power, to eall to aeeount a tyrant or wieked king, and after due eonvietion, to depose and put him to death,... | |
 | John Milton - 1851 - 606 pages
...wifeft men. G c The Tenure of Kings and Magiftrates : Proving that it isLawfull,and hath been held fo through all Ages, for any, who have the Power, to call to account a Tyrant, or wicked KINTG, and after due conviction, to depofe, and put him to death ; if the ordinary MAGISTRATE have... | |
 | English poetry - 1852 - 874 pages
...order to conciliate the minds of the people to that act, he published, early in I649, a work entitled, omy flood, while ravens sung The funeral dirge, they down the torrent roll'd : so held through all ages, for any who have the power, to call to account a tyrant or wicked king ;... | |
 | John Milton - 1853 - 370 pages
...published a treatise entitled the Tenure of Kings and Magistrates, in which he elaborately shews " that it is lawful, and hath been held so through all...power to call to account a tyrant or wicked king." This strong and seasonable argument, from the most powerful pen then extant, led to important advantages.... | |
 | Hugh James Rose - Biography - 1853 - 528 pages
...outcries as well of the Presbyterians as the loyalists against that act, he published early in 1649, The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates, proving that it is lawful, and hath been so held through all Ages, for any who have the Power, to call to Account a Tyrant or wicked King, and,... | |
 | Guizot (M., François) - Great Britain - 1854 - 516 pages
...to a kinsman of Bradshaw's, who had recently maintained, in an eloquent pamphlet, "that it is lawful to call to account a tyrant, or wicked king, and after due conviction, to depose and put him to death !" 3 That man was Milton. At the same time that it was engaged in the constitution of the Council of... | |
 | Guizot (M., François) - Great Britain - 1854 - 518 pages
...to a kinsman of Bradshaw's, who had recently maintained, in an eloquent pamphlet, "that it is lawful to call to account a tyrant, or wicked king, and after due conviction, to depose, and put him to death !" 3 That man was Milton. At the same time that it was engaged in the constitution of the Council of... | |
 | François Guizot - Great Britain - 1854 - 426 pages
...a kinsman of Bradshaw's, who had recently maintained, in an eloquent pamphlet, " that it is lawful to call to account a tyrant, or wicked king, and after due conviction, to depose, and put him to death!"3 That man was Milton. At the same time that it was engaged in the constitution of the Council... | |
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The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates PROVING THAT IT IS LAWFUL, AND HATH BEEN HELD SO THROUGH ALL AGES, FOR ANY WHO HAVE THE POWER TO CALL TO ACCOUNT A TYRANT, OR WICKED KING, AND AFTER DUE CONVICTION TO DEPOSE AND PUT HIM TO DEATH, IF THE ORDINARY MAGISTRATE... 
