Institutes of Natural Law: Being the Substance of a Course of Lectures on Grotius De Jure Belli Et Pacis |
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... reason why permissions , even in respect Why permissions have been thought of those persons , who claim a liberty of acting in virtue of them , have been mistaken for laws , has probably been , that where they arise from express ...
... reason why permissions , even in respect Why permissions have been thought of those persons , who claim a liberty of acting in virtue of them , have been mistaken for laws , has probably been , that where they arise from express ...
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... reason of duty , they concur in establishing the same rules of duty . The moralists of one sect derive our obligation to observe the law of nature from in- stinctive affections , or an innate moral sense . Those of another sect maintain ...
... reason of duty , they concur in establishing the same rules of duty . The moralists of one sect derive our obligation to observe the law of nature from in- stinctive affections , or an innate moral sense . Those of another sect maintain ...
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... reason , which is likewise a principle of his nature , informs him , that he cannot effectually obtain this end without endeavouring to advance the common good of man- kind ; but must either be contented to enjoy his own happiness , as ...
... reason , which is likewise a principle of his nature , informs him , that he cannot effectually obtain this end without endeavouring to advance the common good of man- kind ; but must either be contented to enjoy his own happiness , as ...
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... reason discovers to us , and that upon this account revelation cannot fairly be made the foundation of it . But whoever is disposed to make such an objection as this , should consider in what sense reason is said to discover the law of ...
... reason discovers to us , and that upon this account revelation cannot fairly be made the foundation of it . But whoever is disposed to make such an objection as this , should consider in what sense reason is said to discover the law of ...
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... reason can be no guide to us . For certainly reason can never distinguish the duties from the crimes , without some express declaration of the will of the law - maker , where nothing but his will makes any apparent difference between ...
... reason can be no guide to us . For certainly reason can never distinguish the duties from the crimes , without some express declaration of the will of the law - maker , where nothing but his will makes any apparent difference between ...
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Page 430 - For ye have the poor with you always, and whensoever ye will, ye may do them good ; but me ye have not always.
Page 475 - Thinkest thou that I cannot now pray to my Father, and he shall presently give me more than twelve legions of angels ? But how then shall the scriptures be fulfilled, that thus it must be?
Page 133 - Thou shalt not lend upon usury to thy brother; usury of money, usury of victuals, usury of any thing that is lent upon usury: unto a stranger thou mayest lend upon usury; but unto thy brother thou shalt not lend upon usury...
Page 474 - But when they persecute you in this city, flee ye into another: for verily I say unto you, Ye shall not have gone over the cities of Israel, till the Son of man be come.
Page 469 - For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil. Wilt thou then not be afraid of the power? do that which is good. and thou shalt have praise of the same: for he is a minister of God to thee for good.
Page 425 - As when a man goeth into the wood with his neighbour to hew wood, and his hand fetcheth a stroke with the axe to cut down the tree, and the head slippeth from the helve, and lighteth upon his neighbour, that he die ; he shall flee unto one of those cities, and live...
Page 226 - If a man shall steal an ox, or a sheep, and kill it, or sell it; he shall restore five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep.
Page 471 - Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake: whether it be to the king, as supreme; or unto governors, as unto them that are sent by him for the punishment of evildoers, and for the praise of them that do well.
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Page 422 - And if a man shall open a pit, or if a man shall dig a pit...