Note 120 — LETTER. (continued 2)
Reading edition
No doubt there are persons whose habitual view is so absorbed in the majesty of human law, that they appear to forget there is any higher law with which we have to do. “Sir, I have had the honour to receive your letter, in which you intimate to me your intention of violating the law,” was an answer of some celebrity in its day. Perchance the question had not presented itself to the writer’s mind,