 | Francis Samuel Drake - 1872 - 1042 pages
...ihe degree of AM in 1743, he proposed, nnd took the affirmative in the discussion of, the question, " Whether it be lawful to resist the supreme magistrate, if the commonwealth cannotothcrwise be preserved? " About the same time he pub. a pamphlet called Englishmen's Bights.... | |
 | George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - 1873 - 866 pages
...appears from the subject he chose for his thesis npon taking his degree of AM He proposed as a question, "Whether it be lawful to resist the supreme magistrate, if the commonwealth cannot otherwise be preserved?" as to which he supported the affirmative. Not succeeding in business, he obtained... | |
 | Robert Charles Winthrop - 1876 - 118 pages
...side. He who, as a Harvard College student, in 1743, had maintained 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... | |
 | Committee on National Centennial Commemoration - 1876 - 110 pages
...his Puritan ancestry. From the day he left college, when he took for the theme of his disquisition " Whether it be lawful to resist the supreme magistrate, if the commonwealth cannot otherwise be preserved," to the day of his death, this brave, far-seeing man walked majestically on,... | |
 | 1877 - 548 pages
...father then being possessed of an ample fortune. The subject of Adams' thesis for his master's degree, " "Whether it be lawful to resist the Supreme Magistrate,...if the commonwealth cannot be otherwise preserved," was both audacious and characteristic. Oct. 17, 1749, he married Elizabeth Checkley, daughter of Rev.... | |
 | 1877 - 536 pages
...father then being possessed of an ample fortune. The subject of Adams' thesis for his master's degree, " Whether it be lawful to resist the Supreme Magistrate,...if the commonwealth cannot be otherwise preserved," was both audacious and characteristic. Oct. 17, 1749, he married Elizabeth Checkley, daughter of Rev.... | |
 | 1877 - 560 pages
...father then being possessed of an ample fortune. The subject of Adams' thesis for his master's degree, " Whether it be lawful to resist the Supreme Magistrate,...if the commonwealth cannot be otherwise preserved," was both audacious and characteristic. Oct. 17, 1749, he married Elizabeth Checkley, daughter of Rev.... | |
 | United States. Office of Education - 1877 - 508 pages
...has made immortal: "An supremo magistratui resistere liceret, si aliter servari rtspiiblica neqnitf " ("Whether it be lawful to resist the supreme magistrate, if the commonwealth cannot otherwise be preserved. ") While Thomas Jefferson was yet an infant in his cradle, on the beautiful... | |
 | Massachusetts. Commission on memorial statues - 1877 - 72 pages
...repose of the colonial governor and his subservient council by maintaining the thesis that " it is lawful to resist the supreme magistrate if the Commonwealth cannot be otherwise preserved." Thus early in his own life, and earlier than that of the nation he helped to create, for it was before... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - 1877 - 894 pages
...side. He who, as a Harvard College student, in 1743, had maintained 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... | |
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Whether it be lawful to resist the supreme magistrate, if the commonwealth cannot be otherwise preserved ?" He maintained the affirmative, and this collegiate exercise furnished a very significant index to his subsequent political career. 
