The Rights of War and Peace: Including the Law of Nature and of Nations |
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... proper to treat all such quarrels , as commonly happen , between nations , as an article in the rights of war : and then war itself will lead us to peace , as to its proper end . II . In treating of the rights of war , the first point ...
... proper to treat all such quarrels , as commonly happen , between nations , as an article in the rights of war : and then war itself will lead us to peace , as to its proper end . II . In treating of the rights of war , the first point ...
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... proper sense , call it a right . This right com- prehends the power , that we have over ourselves , which is called liberty , and the power , that we have over others , as that of a father over his children , and of a master over his ...
... proper sense , call it a right . This right com- prehends the power , that we have over ourselves , which is called liberty , and the power , that we have over others , as that of a father over his children , and of a master over his ...
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... proper . We say OBLIGING US . For the best counsels or precepts , if they lay us under no obligation to obey them , cannot come under the denomination of law or right . Now as to permission , † it is no act of the law , but only the ...
... proper . We say OBLIGING US . For the best counsels or precepts , if they lay us under no obligation to obey them , cannot come under the denomination of law or right . Now as to permission , † it is no act of the law , but only the ...
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... proper , or better than things of an opposite kind , although not binding , are said to belong to natural right . We must farther remark , that natural right relates not only to those things that exist independent of the human will ...
... proper , or better than things of an opposite kind , although not binding , are said to belong to natural right . We must farther remark , that natural right relates not only to those things that exist independent of the human will ...
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... proper to add MANY , because scarce any right can be found common to all nations , except the law of nature , which itself too is generally called the law of nations . Nay , frequently in one part of the world , that is held for the law ...
... proper to add MANY , because scarce any right can be found common to all nations , except the law of nature , which itself too is generally called the law of nations . Nay , frequently in one part of the world , that is held for the law ...
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Page 28 - For what nation is there so great, who hath God so nigh unto them, as the LORD our God is in all things that we call upon him for?
Page 44 - I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men; For kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty.
Page 39 - And surely your blood of your lives will I require: at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man; at the hand of every man's brother will I require the life of man. 6 Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man.
Page 43 - Again ye have heard that it hath been said by them of old time, Thou shalt not, forswear thyself, but shalt perform unto the Lord thine oaths...
Page 88 - All these things, so long as they remain in possession, every man has a right to enjoy without disturbance ; but if once they escape from his custody, or he voluntarily abandons the use of them, they return to the common stock, and any man else has an equal right to seize and enjoy them afterwards.
Page 16 - Both for this reason and for others, it would be useful, and indeed it is almost necessary, that certain Congresses of Christian Powers should be held, in which the controversies which arise among some of them may be decided by others who are not interested ; and in which measures may be taken to compel the parties to accept peace on equitable terms.
Page 102 - Implied are such as reason and justice dictate, and which therefore the law presumes that every man undertakes to perform...
Page 5 - But at the close of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth centuries, they were so abundant that their insincerity can scarcely be doubted.
Page 29 - For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves: Which show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another;) In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel.
Page 63 - Wrongs are divisible into two sorts or species: private wrongs and public wrongs. The former are an infringement or privation of the private or civil rights belonging to individuals, considered as individuals ; and are thereupon frequently termed civil injuries; the latter are a breach and violation of public rights and duties, which affect the whole community, considered as a community ; and are distinguished by the harsher appellation of crimes and misdemeanors.