A Discourse on the Study of the Law of Nature and NationsH. Goode and Company, 1828 - 89 oldal |
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... European nations much of the precision and certainty of positive law , and the particulars of that law are chiefly to be found in the works of those writers who have treated the science of which I now speak . It is because they have ...
... European nations much of the precision and certainty of positive law , and the particulars of that law are chiefly to be found in the works of those writers who have treated the science of which I now speak . It is because they have ...
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... Europe into a closer so- ciety ; which linked them together by the firmest bands of mutual dependence , and which thus , in process of time , gave to the law that regulated their intercourse greater importance , higher improvement , and ...
... Europe into a closer so- ciety ; which linked them together by the firmest bands of mutual dependence , and which thus , in process of time , gave to the law that regulated their intercourse greater importance , higher improvement , and ...
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Sir James Mackintosh. The same empire , it became almost as essential that Europe should have a precise and com- prehensive code of the law of nations , as that each country should have a system of muni- cipal law . The labours of the ...
Sir James Mackintosh. The same empire , it became almost as essential that Europe should have a precise and com- prehensive code of the law of nations , as that each country should have a system of muni- cipal law . The labours of the ...
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... Europe , and the bounds which Nature herself has prescribed to the progress of that improvement ; beyond which , every pretended advance will be a real degradation . III . Having established the principles of private duty , I shall ...
... Europe , and the bounds which Nature herself has prescribed to the progress of that improvement ; beyond which , every pretended advance will be a real degradation . III . Having established the principles of private duty , I shall ...
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... Europe , but in other countries lost or obscured , were in this more fortunate island preserved , matured , and adapted to the progress of civilization . I shall attempt to exhibit this most complicated machine , as our history and our ...
... Europe , but in other countries lost or obscured , were in this more fortunate island preserved , matured , and adapted to the progress of civilization . I shall attempt to exhibit this most complicated machine , as our history and our ...
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12. oldal - Wherefore that here we may briefly end : of Law there can be no less acknowledged, than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world : all things in heaven and earth do her homage, the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power : both Angels and men and creatures of what condition soever, though each in different sort and manner, yet all with uniform consent, admiring her as the mother of their peace and joy.
81. oldal - Le droit des gens est naturellement fondé sur ce principe , que les diverses nations doivent se faire dans la paix le plus de bien , et dans la guerre le moins de mal qu'il est possible , sans nuire à leurs véritables intérêts.
65. oldal - Pour former un gouvernement modéré, il faut combiner les puissances, les régler, les tempérer, les faire agir; donner, pour ainsi dire, un lest à l'une pour la mettre en état de résister à une autre : c'est un chef-d'œuvre de législation que le hasard fait rarement, et que rarement on laisse faire à la prudence.
19. oldal - ... of my readers only by name. Yet, if we fairly estimate both his endowments and his virtues, we may justly consider him as one of the most memorable men who have done honour to modern times. He combined the discharge of the most important duties of active and public life with the attainment of that exact and various learning which is generally the portion only of the recluse student. He was distinguished as an advocate and a magistrate, and he composed the most valuable works on the law of his...
66. oldal - It were good therefore that men in their innovations would follow the example of time itself, which indeed innovateth greatly, but quietly and by degrees scarce to be perceived...
3. oldal - Rev. iv. 6. from the soils through which they run, so do civil laws vary according to the regions and governments where they are planted, though they proceed from the same fountains.
7. oldal - Commonwealths, as well as private men, are liable to injury, and capable of benefit, from each other; it is, therefore, their interest, as well as their duty, to reverence, to practise, and to enforce those rules of justice which control and restrain injury, — which regulate and augment benefit, — which, even in their present imperfect observance, preserve...
11. oldal - Romae, alia Athenis, alia nunc, alia posthac, sed et omnes gentes et omni tempore " una lex et sempiterna et immutabilis continebit unusque erit communis quasi " magister et imperator omnium deus: ille legis hujus inventor, disceptator, lator, cui " qui non parebit, ipse se fugiet ac naturam hominis aspernatus hoc ipso luet maximas " poenas, etiam si caetera supplicia quae putantur, effugerit.
20. oldal - ... materials were scattered over the writings of those who had gone before him. By tracing the laws of his country to their principles, he was led to the contemplation of the law of nature, which he justly considered as the parent of all municipal law...
36. oldal - In the present century a slow and silent, but very substantial mitigation has taken place in the practice of war; and in proportion as that mitigated practice has received the sanction of time, it is raised from the rank of mere usage, and becomes part of the law of nations.