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... they even tremble , while conferring the greatft bleffings . They perceive the ancient abufes ; they fee how they must be reformed ; but they are fenfible alfo of the abuses of the reformation . They let the evil continue , viii PREFACE .
... they even tremble , while conferring the greatft bleffings . They perceive the ancient abufes ; they fee how they must be reformed ; but they are fenfible alfo of the abuses of the reformation . They let the evil continue , viii PREFACE .
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... must certainly be directed by invariable laws : and could we imagine another world , it must alfo have conftant rules , or muft inevitably perish . Thus the creation , which feems an arbitrary act , fup- pofeth laws as invariable as the ...
... must certainly be directed by invariable laws : and could we imagine another world , it must alfo have conftant rules , or muft inevitably perish . Thus the creation , which feems an arbitrary act , fup- pofeth laws as invariable as the ...
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... must confider man before the establishment of fociety ; the laws received in such a state would be thofe of nature . The law which by imprinting on our minds the idea of a Creator inclines us to him , is the first in importance , though ...
... must confider man before the establishment of fociety ; the laws received in such a state would be thofe of nature . The law which by imprinting on our minds the idea of a Creator inclines us to him , is the first in importance , though ...
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... must be properly fupported , they have laws relative to the governors and the governed ; and this we call POLITICAL LAW . They have also another fort of laws relating to the mutual communication of citizens : by which is understood the ...
... must be properly fupported , they have laws relative to the governors and the governed ; and this we call POLITICAL LAW . They have also another fort of laws relating to the mutual communication of citizens : by which is understood the ...
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... must examine now which are those laws that follow this nature directly , and confequently are the first funda- mental laws . CHA P. 11 . Of the republican government , and the laws relative to Democracy . WHEN the body of the people in ...
... must examine now which are those laws that follow this nature directly , and confequently are the first funda- mental laws . CHA P. 11 . Of the republican government , and the laws relative to Democracy . WHEN the body of the people in ...
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Page 182 - Were it joined with the legislative, the life and liberty of the subject would be exposed to arbitrary control ; for the judge would then be the legislator. Were it joined to the executive power, the judge might behave with violence and oppression.
Page 188 - ... have the means of examining in what manner its laws have been executed; an advantage which this government has over that of Crete and Sparta, where the cosmi and the ephori gave no account of their administration.
Page 181 - When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner.
Page 185 - ... in the diets of Germany. True it is that by this way of proceeding the speeches of the deputies might with greater propriety be called the voice of the nation; but, on the other hand, this would...
Page 181 - In every government there are three sorts of power: the legislative; the executive in respect to things dependent on the law of nations; and the executive in regard to matters that depend on the civil law. By virtue of the first, the prince or magistrate enacts temporary or perpetual laws, and amends or abrogates those that have been already enacted. By the second, he makes peace or war, sends or receives embassies, establishes the public security, and provides against...
Page 358 - We have said that the laws were the particular and precise institutions of a legislator, and manners and customs the institutions of a nation in general. Hence it follows that when these manners and customs are to be changed, it ought not to be done by laws; this would have too much the air of tyranny: it would be better to change them by introducing other manners and other customs.
Page 191 - ... a perpetual right, it would be a matter of indifference whether it held it of itself or of another.
Page 267 - Author of nature has made it an established rule that this pain should be more acute in proportion as the laceration is greater: now it is evident that the large bodies and coarse fibres of the people of the north are less capable of laceration than the delicate fibres of the inhabitants of warm countries; consequently the soul is there less sensible of pain. You must flay a Muscovite alive to make him feel.
Page 192 - It is natural for mankind to set a higher value upon courage than timidity, on activity than prudence, on strength than counsel. Hence the army will ever despise a senate, and respect their own officers. They will naturally slight the orders sent them by a body of men whom they look upon as cowards, and therefore unworthy to command them.
Page 328 - Persians were masters of Asia, they permitted those who conveyed a spring to any place which had not been watered before to enjoy the benefit for five generations; and as a number of rivulets flowed from Mount Taurus, they spared no expense in directing the course of their streams. At this day, without knowing how they came thither, they are found in the fields and gardens.