A Discourse on the Study of the Law of Nature and Nations: Introductory to a Course of Lectures on that Science, to be Commenced in Lincoln's Inn Hall, on Wednesday, Feb. 13, 1799, in Pursuance of an Order of the Honourable Society of Lincoln's InnT. Cadell [and 4 others], 1799 - 68 頁 |
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... writers who have treated the fci- ence of which I now fpeak . It is because they have claffed ( in a manner which feems peculiar to modern times ) the duties of individuals with thofe of nations , and established their obligation on ...
... writers who have treated the fci- ence of which I now fpeak . It is because they have claffed ( in a manner which feems peculiar to modern times ) the duties of individuals with thofe of nations , and established their obligation on ...
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... writer , Mr. Bentham , Princ . of Morals and Pol . p . 324. Perhaps thefe learned wri- ters do employ a phrafe which expreffes the fubject of this law with more accuracy than our common language ; but I doubt , whether innovations in ...
... writer , Mr. Bentham , Princ . of Morals and Pol . p . 324. Perhaps thefe learned wri- ters do employ a phrafe which expreffes the fubject of this law with more accuracy than our common language ; but I doubt , whether innovations in ...
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... writers on general jurifprudence have confidered ftates as moral perfons ; a mode of expreffion which has been called a fiction of law , but which * This remark is fuggefted by an objection of Vattel , which is more fpecious than folid ...
... writers on general jurifprudence have confidered ftates as moral perfons ; a mode of expreffion which has been called a fiction of law , but which * This remark is fuggefted by an objection of Vattel , which is more fpecious than folid ...
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... writers to the vagueness of the language ) appears to have been styled with great propriety , " the law of nature . " It may with fufficient correctnefs , or at least by an easy meta- phor , be called a " law , " inafmuch as it is a fu ...
... writers to the vagueness of the language ) appears to have been styled with great propriety , " the law of nature . " It may with fufficient correctnefs , or at least by an easy meta- phor , be called a " law , " inafmuch as it is a fu ...
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... writers of ancient and modern times , in thofe fublime de- fcriptions , where they have exhaufted all the powers of language , and furpaffed all the other exertions , even of their own eloquence , in the C display difplay of the beauty ...
... writers of ancient and modern times , in thofe fublime de- fcriptions , where they have exhaufted all the powers of language , and furpaffed all the other exertions , even of their own eloquence , in the C display difplay of the beauty ...
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第 6 頁 - For there are in nature certain fountains of justice, whence all civil laws are derived but as streams ; and, like as waters do take tinctures and tastes 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.
第 63 頁 - Le droit des gens règle les relations entre les différents États. «Il est naturellement fondé sur ce principe, dit Montesquieu (Esprit des Lois, livre I, chap. m), que les diverses nations doivent se faire , dans la paix, le plus de bien , et, dans la guerre , le moins de mal possible , sans nuire à leurs véritables intérêts.
第 17 頁 - ... his enemies when they were weak. In times of the most furious, civil and religious faction, he preserved his name unspotted; and he knew how to reconcile fidelity to his own party, with moderation towards his opponents.
第 17 頁 - The sagacity of his numerous and fierce adversaries could not discover a blot on his character ; and in the midst of all the hard trials and galling provocations of a turbulent political life, he never once deserted his friends when they were unfortunate, nor insulted his enemies when they were weak.
第 18 頁 - He was not of such a stupid and servile cast of mind, as to quote the opinions of poets or orators, of historians and philosophers, as those of judges, from whose decision there was no appeal. He quotes them, as he tells us himself, as witnesses whose conspiring testimony, mightily strengthened and confirmed by their discordance on almost every other subject, is a conclusive proof of the unanimity of...
第 16 頁 - 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.
第 19 頁 - ... not in unison with those of their readers. No system of moral philosophy can surely disregard the general feelings of human nature and the according judgment of all ages and nations.
第 5 頁 - Under this comprehensive title are included the rules of morality, as they prescribe the conduct of private men towards each other in all the various relations of human life ; as they regulate both the obedience of citizens to the laws, and the authority of the magistrate in framing laws, and...
第 17 頁 - It has, however, been the fashion of the last half century to depreciate his work as a shapeless compilation, in which reason lies buried under a mass of authorities and quotations. This fashion originated among French wits and declaimers, and it has been, I know not for what reason, adopted...
第 20 頁 - Even virtue and wisdom themselves acquire new majesty in my eyes, when I thus see all the great masters of thinking and writing called together, as it were, from all times and countries, to do them homage, and to appear in their train.