 | 1917 - 622 páginas
...unwarrantableness and unsafeness of referring matters of council or judicature to the body of the people. The best part is always the least, and of that best part the wiser part is always the lesser." A dictum of vast importance, except that the Massachusetts people passed quietly over the prostrate... | |
 | Willis Mason West - 1918 - 846 páginas
...stated admirably the case for democracy. Winthrop wrote to him that democracy was " unwarrantable " because " the best part is always the least, and of...that best part the wiser part is always the lesser " ; but Hooker replied : " In matters . . . that concern the common good, a general council iThis term... | |
 | 1920 - 886 páginas
...were forming a government, he wrote them a letter in which he said that "the best part of a community is always the least, and of that best part the wiser part is always the lesser." But he was attached to civil liberty, disinterested, pure and conscientious. "It would be erroneous,9... | |
 | 1920 - 434 páginas
...members. In 1638 Winthrop wrote to Hooker that it was unsafe to bestow political power on the hoi polloi, because ' the best part is always the least, and of...best part the wiser ' part is always the lesser.' f Democracy he ' branded with ' reproachful epithets . . . ; and historians do record that it hath... | |
 | Andrew Cunningham McLaughlin - 1920 - 222 páginas
...of counsel and judicature," said Winthrop, ought not to be referred to the main body of the people; "the best part is always the least, and of that best part, the wiser part is always the lesser." Hooker, on the other hand, declared: "In matters of greater consequence, which concern the common good,... | |
 | Everett Kimball - 1920 - 656 páginas
...unwarrantableness ... of referring matters of counsel or judicature to the body of the people, quia the best part is always the least, and of that best part the wiser part is always the lesser." 1 1 Life and Letters of John Winthrop, Vol. II, p. 237 ; quoted by Edward Charming, History of the... | |
 | Everett Kimball - 1920 - 650 páginas
...unwarrantableness ... of referring matters of counsel or judicature to the body of the people, quid the best part is always the least, and of that best part the wiser part is always the lesser."1 REVOLUTIONARY EXPERIMENTS The separation from Great Britain involved a double task two problems... | |
 | 1920 - 892 páginas
...forming a government, he wrote them a letter in which he said that “the best part of. a community is always the least, and of that best part the wiser part is always the lesser.' But he was attached to civil liberty, disinterested, pure and conscientious. 1t would be erroneous,'... | |
 | Robert Henry Murray - 1921 - 104 páginas
...bestow political power on the hoi polloi, because "safety lies in the councils of the best people, which is always the least, and of that best part, the wiser part is always the lesser." 2 Democracy he '' branded with reproachful epithets . . . ; and historians do record that it hath been... | |
 | Robert Henry Murray - 1921 - 104 páginas
...political power on the hoi polloi, because ' ' safety lies in the councils of the best people, which is always the least, and of that best part, the wiser part is always the lesser."2 Democracy he ' ' branded with reproachful epithets . . . ; and historians do record that... | |
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... the best part is always the least, and of that best part the wiser part is always the lesser. 
