 that this law of nature, being coeval with mankind, and dictated by God himself, is of course superior in obligation to any other. It is binding over all the globe, in all countries, and at all times : no human laws are of any validity if contrary to...  The United States Democratic Review - Pàgina 5641841Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Several Hands - 1766 - 596 pàgines
...virtue, are adopted and enforced with great energy and concifenefs : and our Author proceeds to obferve, that ' this law of nature being coeval with mankind, and dictated by God himfelf, is of courfe fuperior in obligation to any other. It is binding over all the globe, in all... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, G. E. Griffiths - 1766 - 722 pàgines
...virtue, are adopted and enforced with great energy and concifencfs : and our Author proceeds to obferve that « this law of nature being coeval with mankind, and dic.tated by God himfelf, is of courfe fuperior in obligation to any other. It is binding over all the globe, in all... | |
 | Sir William Blackstone - 1791 - 516 pàgines
...that action is deftruftive of man's real happinefs, and therefore that the law of nature forbids it. THIS law of nature, being coeval with mankind and dictated by God himfelf, is of courfe fuperior in obligation to any other. It is binding over all the globe in all... | |
 | Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig - 1797 - 432 pàgines
...that aélion is deftruftive of man's real happinefa, and therefore that the law of nature forbids it. This law of nature, being coeval with mankind, and dictated by God himfelf, is of courfe fuperior in obligation to any other. It is binding over all the globe, in all... | |
 | John Poyer - 1808 - 716 pàgines
...selfdefence ; and no human jurisdiction has a legitimate power to deprive him of this sacred privilege. This law of nature, being coeval with mankind,, and dictated by God himself^ is of superior obligation to any other. No human laws ate of any .validity;, if contrary to this* Such a... | |
 | William Findley - 1812 - 380 pàgines
...pursue this line of conduct, so far as that our self-love comes frequently in aid of our duty. The law of nature being coeval with mankind, and dictated by God himself, is of course superior to, and the foundation of, all other laws. It is binding all over the globe, in all countries, and... | |
 | Charles Bucke - 1823 - 416 pàgines
...of reason to discover the purport of those laws. This law of Nature,*' he afterwards observes *, " being coeval with mankind, and dictated by God himself, is of course superior in obligation to every other. It is binding all over the globe, in all countries, and at all times : no human laws are... | |
 | James Peggs - 1830 - 556 pàgines
...own nature and essence invalid. Blackstone, speaking of the law of nature, says, 'this law of nature, coeval with mankind, and dictated by God himself,...superior in obligation to any other. It is binding all over the globe, in all countries, and at all times ; no human laws are of any validity if contrary... | |
 | James Peggs - 1830 - 560 pàgines
...nature and essence invalid. Blackstone, speaking of the law of nature, says, ' this law of nature, coeval with mankind, and dictated by God himself, is of course superior in obligation to any other. [t is binding all over the globe, in all countries, and at all times ; no human laws are of any validity... | |
 | George Coventry - 1830 - 232 pàgines
...trade, or the cause of oppression to a country; V for as Judge Blackstone truly observes, ' This ' law being coeval with mankind, and dictated ' by God himself, is of course superior in obli' gation to any other.—No human laws are of ' any validity if contrary to this; and such of '... | |
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