The Source, the Strength, and the True Spirit of Laws: In which the Errors of M. de Montesquieu, and Some Other Eminent Writers, are Occasionally Considered, to which are Added, Essays on the Natural Origin of Political Governments |
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... Justice and Temperance , the only Virtues that can make us happy . Those Men who contend for nothing but Licentiousness , speed no better with the Pre - existence of Souls and their Metempsychofis , than with the System generally ...
... Justice and Temperance , the only Virtues that can make us happy . Those Men who contend for nothing but Licentiousness , speed no better with the Pre - existence of Souls and their Metempsychofis , than with the System generally ...
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... Justice is gene- rally acknowledged as the fupreme Law , and the Source of Laws : Though , in their Turn , the Laws derived from it fometimes make Things juft , or lawful , which , under dif- ferent Circumftances , were not fo before ...
... Justice is gene- rally acknowledged as the fupreme Law , and the Source of Laws : Though , in their Turn , the Laws derived from it fometimes make Things juft , or lawful , which , under dif- ferent Circumftances , were not fo before ...
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... Justice ? Don't we proceed in the fame Manner , when we inquire into the Laws of Sight and of all the other Senfes ? We attend only to what is common and invariable in all Eyes , without minding all the Variations , Particularities and ...
... Justice ? Don't we proceed in the fame Manner , when we inquire into the Laws of Sight and of all the other Senfes ? We attend only to what is common and invariable in all Eyes , without minding all the Variations , Particularities and ...
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... Justice and Manners , I must gradually return to it , and make the following Confiderations thereon . I. A MAN overwhelm'd with Pain , and labouring under extreme Terrors , a Burthen to himself and to others , being weary of groan- ing ...
... Justice and Manners , I must gradually return to it , and make the following Confiderations thereon . I. A MAN overwhelm'd with Pain , and labouring under extreme Terrors , a Burthen to himself and to others , being weary of groan- ing ...
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... Algerine or Tunifian Civilians , they would find Arguments that there is some Honesty and Justice to prove in Piracy and Depredation . F 4 IT It is also very hard to guard against an Equivoque CHAP . 13 . 71 The Source of Laws .
... Algerine or Tunifian Civilians , they would find Arguments that there is some Honesty and Justice to prove in Piracy and Depredation . F 4 IT It is also very hard to guard against an Equivoque CHAP . 13 . 71 The Source of Laws .
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Page 73 - I was alive without the law once : but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died. 10 And the commandment which was ordained to life, I found to be unto death. 11 For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me.
Page 72 - What (hall we (ay then ? Is the law fin ? God forbid ! Nay, I had not known fin, but by the law ; for I had not known luft except the law had faid, Thou (halt not covet.
Page 72 - I had not known sin, but by the law; for I had not known lust, except the law had said, "Thou shalt not covet." But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead. For I was alive without the law once, but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.
Page 72 - Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin ; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned : (For until the law sin was in the world : but sin is not imputed when there is no law.
Page 64 - And the LORD came down in a cloud, and spake unto him, and took of the spirit that was upon him, and gave it unto the seventy elders: and it came to pass that when the spirit rested upon them, they prophesied, and did not cease.
Page 104 - This means that you must attempt the very difficult task of seeing them as they are, and not as they ought to be or as you think they are.