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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... Governments. то His MAJESTY THE KING OF PRUSSIA . SIRE , ΤΗ HE Analogy between the Design of this Work , and your Majesty's Paternal Care for your People , is fo great A 2 great and fo manifest , that every Reader muft immediately.
... Governments. то His MAJESTY THE KING OF PRUSSIA . SIRE , ΤΗ HE Analogy between the Design of this Work , and your Majesty's Paternal Care for your People , is fo great A 2 great and fo manifest , that every Reader muft immediately.
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... manifest , that every Reader muft immediately perceive your Majesty to have an exclufive Right and Title to it . WHAT your Majefty has recently undertaken and at- chieved , in regard to the Re- formation and Execution of the Laws in ...
... manifest , that every Reader muft immediately perceive your Majesty to have an exclufive Right and Title to it . WHAT your Majefty has recently undertaken and at- chieved , in regard to the Re- formation and Execution of the Laws in ...
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... manifest a Defign and a fuperior Law , to which the whole Machine is to correspond and obey , in order to preserve itself , and produce its Effect , by an admirable Harmony . Without this it would deftroy itself ; and each Part that did ...
... manifest a Defign and a fuperior Law , to which the whole Machine is to correspond and obey , in order to preserve itself , and produce its Effect , by an admirable Harmony . Without this it would deftroy itself ; and each Part that did ...
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... manifest Contradiction ; and fo far , that a Will without fome Reafon is to me an Impoffibility in Nature ; excepting that original Will of being happy , antecedent to all human Reflections , and which to renounce is alfo an ...
... manifest Contradiction ; and fo far , that a Will without fome Reafon is to me an Impoffibility in Nature ; excepting that original Will of being happy , antecedent to all human Reflections , and which to renounce is alfo an ...
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... manifest Influence among Men ; as there are even Vices which are sometimes pro- ductive of advantageous Effects . Yet thefe Ef- fects are only temporary , and to repair a greater Evil : For , no fooner is that done , than the ...
... manifest Influence among Men ; as there are even Vices which are sometimes pro- ductive of advantageous Effects . Yet thefe Ef- fects are only temporary , and to repair a greater Evil : For , no fooner is that done , than the ...
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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.