It is wholesomer for the moral nature to be restrained, even by arbitrary power, than to be allowed to exercise arbitrary power.
Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
The religious zeal of Binning, his patriotism, and his dread of arbitrary power were, it is clear, stronger than his loyalty.
It appeared pretty evident to me, that however I might have roused the pride and resentment of the senior members of the mess by my resistance to arbitrary power, that I had gained some powerful friends, among whom was the captain.
Arbitrary power could be bought there by any one, who could buy a slave.
Arbitrary power, incarnated in the second Charlemagne, assailed the new combination with unscrupulous, unforgiving fierceness.
With the advent of the Burgundian family, the power of the commons reached so high a point that it was able to measure itself, undaunted, with the spirit of arbitrary power.
Taken in connection with the ancient charters, which they expressly upheld, they left to the new sovereign no vestige of arbitrary power.
But the general maxims of slavish churchmen and lawyers were asserted so broadly that a future judge would find little difficulty in making use of this precedent to justify any stretch of arbitrary power.
The independence of the Church, through that of her Supreme Pontiff, is as nearly connected with political as with religious liberty, since the ecclesiastical system which rejects the Pope logically leads to arbitrary power.
Between the settled organisation of Catholicism and every form of arbitrary power, there is an incompatibility which must terminate in conflict.
As the Anglican Church under James and Charles was the bulwark of arbitrary power, the popular resistance took the form of ecclesiastical opposition.
Because this author seems in general to write with an honest meaning, I would seriously put to him the question, whether he thinks I and my friends are for Popery, arbitrary power, France and the Pretender?
To cover this stretch of arbitrary power, the court procured addresses from public bodies, in which the king was thanked for the royal care he extended to the customs and excise.
Strafford and Laud are generally coupled together in the description of the abuses of arbitrary power.
From the beginning, a strict democracy existed, and all enjoyed ample exemption from the trammels of arbitrary power.
That was, what all men thought it was, when this play was written; for the madness of arbitrary power, the impersonated will and passion, was the state then.
Arbitrary power called to an account, requested to explain itself.
But I might as well have tried to stop the tempest in its career, as to calm the infuriated passions nurtured by the exercise of arbitrary power.
All the world knows, that the possession of arbitrary powerhas a strong tendency to make men shamelessly wicked and insufferably mischievous.
Tyranny may be exercised by means of the law, and in that case it is not arbitrary; arbitrary power may be exercised for the good of the community at large, in which case it is not tyrannical.
Arbitrary Power of the Magistrates in New England.
In two different kinds of government the magistrates exercise a considerable degree of arbitrary power; namely, under the absolute government of a single individual, and under that of a democracy.
He appeals to the custom and usage of the Mogul empire; and the constitution of that empire is, he says, arbitrary power.
The whole history of Asia is nothing more than precedents to prove the invariable exercise of arbitrary power.
After having vomited out his vile, bilious stuff of arbitrary power, and afterwards denied it to be his, he gets his counsel in this place to resort to the loathsome mess again.
Whilst the clamour of French intrigue, arbitrary power, popery, and wooden shoes could be kept up, the nation was easily allured and alarmed into taxes.
Emetics were good for the health of individuals, and there could be no better preparative for a healthy constitutional government than another experience of arbitrary power.
In one number we find the writer, ever daring and alert, setting out with an eulogium on "the wonderful benefit of arbitrary power" in France.
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