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Page xiii
... fecurity for the weak and timid , against thofe of fuperior ftrength and intrepidity , was certainly the end of all focial confede- racies . While focieties however were merely fe- derative , mankind retained their rational right of ...
... fecurity for the weak and timid , against thofe of fuperior ftrength and intrepidity , was certainly the end of all focial confede- racies . While focieties however were merely fe- derative , mankind retained their rational right of ...
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... fecurity . AN CHA P. III . Of Obligations . N obligation is a moral quality , by which we are bound to do or fuffer fomething ; and by the fubtlety of philo- fophers and lawyers , it has been refolved into various fpecies . Some have ...
... fecurity . AN CHA P. III . Of Obligations . N obligation is a moral quality , by which we are bound to do or fuffer fomething ; and by the fubtlety of philo- fophers and lawyers , it has been refolved into various fpecies . Some have ...
Page 51
... fecurity from with- out , which Nature prompts every man to defire , it is our intereft not to offend or injure each other . It is no argument , as has been faid , againft the Law of Nature , that many nations feem to have lived without ...
... fecurity from with- out , which Nature prompts every man to defire , it is our intereft not to offend or injure each other . It is no argument , as has been faid , againft the Law of Nature , that many nations feem to have lived without ...
Page 71
... fecurity against future at- tempts to his prejudice : for no man who has juft caufe to fufpect that an injury is meditated against him , is obliged to wait and poftpone the means of defence till the danger approaches . When , however ...
... fecurity against future at- tempts to his prejudice : for no man who has juft caufe to fufpect that an injury is meditated against him , is obliged to wait and poftpone the means of defence till the danger approaches . When , however ...
Page 125
... fecurity of property , which human wisdom is capable of contriving . A CHA P. XI . Of Furies . T what time this happy inftitution was first introduced into this coun- try , is difficult to determine . Some writers trace the inftitution ...
... fecurity of property , which human wisdom is capable of contriving . A CHA P. XI . Of Furies . T what time this happy inftitution was first introduced into this coun- try , is difficult to determine . Some writers trace the inftitution ...
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Page 9 - 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...
Page 254 - The centre mov'd, a circle straight succeeds, Another still, and still another spreads ; Friend, parent, neighbour, first it will embrace ; His country next, and next all human race ; Wide and more wide, th...
Page 132 - ... leaving the law to the court, but find for the plaintiff or defendant upon the issue to be tried, wherein they resolve both law and fact complicately, and not the fact by itself ; so as though they answer not singly to the question what is the law, yet they determine the law in all matters, where issue is joined and tried in the principal Dissenting Opinion: Gray, Shiras, JJ. case, but [ie except] where the verdict is special.
Page 223 - I am one, , Whom the vile blows and buffets of the world Have fo incens'd, that I am recklefs what I do, to fpite the world. 1 Mur. And I another, So weary with difafters, tugg'd with fortune, That I would fet my life on any chance, To mend it, or be rid on't.
Page xxiv - ... What a lamentable case it is to see so many Christian men and women strangled on that cursed tree of the gallows ; insomuch as if in a large field a man might see together all the Christians, that but in one year throughout England come to that untimely and ignominious death, if there were any spark of grace or charity in him, it would make his heart to bleed for pity and compassion.
Page 46 - For as many as have sinned without law, shall also perish without law ; and as many as have sinned in the law, shall be judged by the law ; (for not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified.
Page 291 - If a man counterfeit the King's money; and if a man bring false money into the realm counterfeit to the money of England, knowing the money to be false, to merchandise and make payment withal.
Page 417 - Statutes in that case made and provided, and against the peace of our Sovereign Lord the King, his crown, and dignity.
Page xxix - ... happily force their way to the thrones of princes be it known to them, that they come attended with the...
Page 134 - L not not guilty : for, to fay the truth, it were the moft unhappy cafe that could be t6 the Judge, if he at his peril muft take upon him the guilt or innocence of the prifoner; and if the Judge's opinion muft rule the matter of fact, the trial by Jury would be ufelefs.