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" Power may justly be compared to a great river : while kept within its due bounds, it is both beautiful and useful ; but when it overflows its banks it is then too impetuous to be stemmed, it bears down all before it, and brings destruction and desolation... "
John Peter Zenger: His Press, His Trial and a Bibliography of Zenger Imprints - Page 117
by Livingston Rutherfurd - 1904 - 275 pages
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A Letter Concerning Libels, Warrants, and the Seizure of Papers: With a View ...

Father of Candor (pseud.), John Almon - 1764 - 330 pages
...of the realm, and calculated to upport arbitrary government) no bounds or limits could be fet, lor could any other hand remove the evil but a parliament, Power may juftly be compared to a great river, which, kept within due bounds, is both beautiful and ufeful ;...
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Essays on the Trade, Commerce, Manufactures, and Fisheries of Scotland..

David Loch - 1779 - 276 pages
...men of the realm, and calculated to iupport arbitrary government), no bounds or limits could be fet, nor could any other hand remove the evil but a parliament. Power may juftly be compared to a great river ; while kept within its due bounds, it is both beautiful and ufeful...
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A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High ..., Volume 17

1816 - 748 pages
...arbitrary and terrible court of Star- Chamber ; to whose arbitrary proceedings (•t beinsr composed of the principal men of the realm, and calculated...a great river ; while kept within its due bounds, it is h'ith beautiful and useful; but when it overflows its banks, it is then too impetuous to be stemmed...
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A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High ..., Volume 17

1816 - 752 pages
...that arbitrary anil terrible court of Slar-Chamber ; to whose arbitrary proceedings (it being composed of the principal men of the realm, and calculated to support arbitrary gotermnent) но bounds or limits could be set, nor could any other hand remove the evil but a parliament....
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The Rights of an American Citizen: With a Commentary on State Rights, and on ...

Benjamin Lynde Oliver - 1832 - 428 pages
...manly sentiments, and partly as a specimen of the eloquence of the Philadelphia Bar, a century ago. ' Power may justly be compared to a great river; while kept within its due bounds, it is both beautiful and useful; but when it overflows its banks, it is then too impetuous to be stemmed;...
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American Criminal Trials, Volume 1

Peleg Whitman Chandler - 1841 - 462 pages
...that arbitrary and terrible court of star chamber, to whose arbitrary proceedings, (it being composed of the principal men of the realm, and calculated...parliament. Power may justly be compared to a great river, which, while kept within its due bounds, is both beautiful and useful; but when it overflows its banks,...
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Long Island. -: Read Before the Long Island Historical Society ..., Volume 14

William Alfred Jones - 1868 - 354 pages
...Chamber, to " whose arbitrary proceedings, (it being com" posed of the principal men of the Realm, and I' calculated to support arbitrary government) '' no...nor could . " any other hand remove the evil but a Parlia' " ment. Power may justly be compared to a "great river, which while kept within its due " bounds,...
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The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Volume 16

1892 - 588 pages
...that arbitrary and terrible Court of Star Chamber, to whose arbitrary proceedings, (it being composed of the principal men of the Realm, and calculated...Parliament. Power may justly be compared to a great river, which while kept within its due bounds, is both beautiful and useful; but when it overflows its banks,...
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The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Volume 16

1892 - 588 pages
...that arbitrary and terrible Court of Star Chamber, to whose arbitrary proceedings, (it being composed of the principal men of the Realm, and calculated...Parliament. Power may justly be compared to a great river, which while kept within its due bounds, is both beautiful and useful ; but when it overflows its banks,...
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The World's Best Orations: From the Earliest Period to Ư the ..., Volume 6

David Josiah Brewer - 1899 - 464 pages
...that arbitrary and terrible court of Star Chamber; to whose arbitrary proceedings (it being composed of the principal men of the realm and calculated to...be compared to a great river; while kept within its bounds, it is both beautiful and useful, but when it overflows its banks, it is then too impetuous...
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