 | John Winthrop - Massachusetts - 1853 - 538 pages
...desired to be made a corporation, etc. But the council, considering (from the example of the Pretorian band among the Romans, and the Templars in Europe)...men, which might easily, in time, overthrow the civil powder, thought fit to stop it betimes. Yet they were allowed to be a company, but subordinate to all... | |
 | John Warner Barber - New England - 1856 - 636 pages
...company, desired to be made a corporation, but the council considering from the example of the Praetorian band among the Romans and the templars in Europe,...which might easily in time overthrow the civil power, thought fit to stop it betimes, yet they were allowed to be a company, but subordinate to all authority.... | |
 | John Warner Barber - New England - 1856 - 644 pages
...company, desired to be made a corporation, but the council considering from the example of the Praetorian band among the Romans and the templars in Europe,...which might easily in time overthrow the civil power, thought fit to stop it betimes, yet they were allowed to be a company, but subordinate to all authority.... | |
 | Charles Wyllys Elliott - New England - 1857 - 502 pages
...to be incorporated as a military company, they were refused, in view of the Pretorian Guard, and " how dangerous it might be to erect a standing authority...which might easily in time overthrow the civil power." The company then formed was the " Ancient and Honorable Artillery." If " Training day" had not become... | |
 | Charles Wyllys Elliott - New England - 1857 - 488 pages
...to be incorporated as a military company, they were refused, in view of the Pretorian Guard, and " how dangerous it might be to erect a standing authority...which might easily in time overthrow the civil power/' The company then formed was the " Ancient and Honorable Artillery." If " Training day" had not become... | |
 | Charles Wyllys Elliott - America - 1857 - 496 pages
...to be incorporated as. a military company, they were refused, in view of the Pretorian Guard, and " how dangerous it might be to erect a standing authority...which might easily in time overthrow the civil power." The company then formed was the " Ancient and Honorable Artillery." If " Training day" had not become... | |
 | John Gorham Palfrey - New England - 1858 - 696 pages
...two hundred and twenty years ago, when " the Council, considering, from the example of the Pretorian Band among the Romans, and the Templars in Europe,...which might easily in time overthrow the civil power, thought fit to stop it betimes." (Winthrop, I. 253.) 9 Mass. Col. Rec., I. 197. 3 Ibid., 239. 4 Ibid.,... | |
 | Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts - 1887 - 994 pages
...desired to be made a corporation ; but the council, considering from the example of the Praetorian band among the Romans and the Templars in Europe how...authority of military men, which might easily in time overtop the civil power, thought fit to stop it betimes, yet they were allowed to be a company, but... | |
 | Arthur Gilman - Boston (Mass.) - 1889 - 538 pages
...company desired to be made a corporation, but the council, considering from the example of the Prastorian Band among the Romans and the Templars in Europe,...authority of military men, which might easily in time overtop the civil power, thought fit to stop it betimes ; yet they were allowed to be a company, but... | |
 | John Austin Stevens, Benjamin Franklin DeCosta, Henry Phelps Johnston, Martha Joanna Lamb, Nathan Gillett Pond - United States - 1889 - 694 pages
...corporation. But the council, considering (from the example of the Pretorian band among the Romans and Templars in Europe) how dangerous it might be to erect...might easily, in time, overthrow the civil power, thought fit to stop it betimes." The governor, however, soon perceived that such a company would strengthen... | |
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Divers gentlemen and others being joined in a military company, desired to be made a corporation, but the council considering from the example of the Praetorian band among the Romans and the templars in Europe, how dangerous it might be to erect a standing... 
