 | 1856 - 428 pages
...feeling, the eminent Cotton, an oracle of his day, says, in a letter to Lord Say and Sele, in 1636 — " Democracy, I do not conceyve that ever God did ordeyne...fitt government eyther for church or commonwealth. If the people be governors, who shall be governed ? As for monarchy and aristocracy, they are both... | |
 | 1856 - 414 pages
...feeling, the eminent Cotton, an oracle of his day, says, in a letter to Lord Say and Sele, in 1636 — " Democracy, I do not conceyve that ever God did ordeyne as a fitt government eytlier for church or commonwealth. If the people be governors, who shall be governed ? AS for monarchy... | |
 | Charles Wyllys Elliott - 1857 - 488 pages
...time in the Bay, in his letter to Lord Say (1636), stated clearly :—" Democracy, I do not conceive that ever God did ordeyne as a fitt Government, eyther for Church or Commonwealth. If the people be governors, who shall be governed ?" It is a question of some consequence to ask, and... | |
 | Charles Wyllys Elliott - 1857 - 502 pages
...time in the Bay, in his letter to Lord Say (1636), stated clearly : — " Democracy, I do not conceive that ever God did ordeyne as a fitt Government, eyther for Church or Commonwealth. If the people be governors, who shall be governed ?" It is a question of some consequence to ask, and... | |
 | Charles Wyllys Elliott - 1857 - 496 pages
...time in the Bay, in his letter to Lord Say (1636), stated clearly :—" Democracy, I do not conceive that ever God did ordeyne as a fitt Government, eyther for Church or Commonwealth. If the people be governors, who shall be governed ?" It is a question of some consequence to ask, and... | |
 | Henry Martyn Dexter - 1865 - 350 pages
...quality " might be induced to furor New England with their presence : " Democracy, 1 do not conceyre that ever God did ordeyne as a fitt government eyther for Church or Commonwealth. If the people be governors, who shall be governed ? " [Hutehinson, Vol. ip 497.] So we find Thomas... | |
 | Henry Martyn Dexter - 1871 - 426 pages
...they, and other "persons of quality " might be induced to favor New England with their presence: " Democracy, I do not conceyve that ever God did ordeyne...fitt government eyther for Church or Commonwealth. If the people be governors, who Bhall be governed ? " [Hutcliinson, Vol. ip 497.] So we find Thomas... | |
 | Henry Martyn Dexter - 1874 - 446 pages
...they, and other " persons of quality " might be induced to favor New England with their presence : " Democracy, I do not conceyve that ever God did ordeyne as a fltt government eyther for Church or Commonwealth. If the people be governors, who shall be governed?"... | |
 | May Alden Ward - 1897 - 304 pages
...ruler and the Bible the statute book." They had no thought of founding a democracy. Said Cotton: " Democracy I do not conceyve that ever God did ordeyne...fitt government eyther for church or commonwealth. If the people be governors, who shall be governed?" They could conceive of no circumstances in which... | |
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Democracy, I do not conceyve that ever God did ordeyne as a fitt government eyther for church or commonwealth. If the people be governors, who shall be governed? 
