The Spirit of Laws, Volume 1J. Nourse and P. Vaillant, 1750 - Jurisprudence |
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... obliged to look back into antiquity , I have endeavoured to affume the fpirit of the ancients , left I fhould confider those things as alike , which are really different ; and left I should miss the difference of those which appear to ...
... obliged to look back into antiquity , I have endeavoured to affume the fpirit of the ancients , left I fhould confider those things as alike , which are really different ; and left I should miss the difference of those which appear to ...
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... obliged to fubmit to another judgment in regard to the manner they had be- haved . People who were utterly unqualified , must by this means have been extremely backward in giving in their names to be drawn by lot . gat . and Timar- 77 ...
... obliged to fubmit to another judgment in regard to the manner they had be- haved . People who were utterly unqualified , must by this means have been extremely backward in giving in their names to be drawn by lot . gat . and Timar- 77 ...
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... obliged to take the reins into his own hands . It is therefore more na- tural for him to refign it to a vizir , and to invest him with the fame power as himself . The creation of a vizir is a fundamental law of this government . It is ...
... obliged to take the reins into his own hands . It is therefore more na- tural for him to refign it to a vizir , and to invest him with the fame power as himself . The creation of a vizir is a fundamental law of this government . It is ...
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... obliged to have recourse to the very government they had so odiously pro- fcribed . When Sylla wanted to restore Rome to its li- berty , this unhappy city was incapable of receiving it . She had only fome feeble remains of virtue , and ...
... obliged to have recourse to the very government they had so odiously pro- fcribed . When Sylla wanted to restore Rome to its li- berty , this unhappy city was incapable of receiving it . She had only fome feeble remains of virtue , and ...
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... obliged them next to furrender their arms and fhips , and then the declared war against them . By the ef- forts which this defenceless city made in her defperate condition , one may judge of what fhe might have done in her full ftrength ...
... obliged them next to furrender their arms and fhips , and then the declared war against them . By the ef- forts which this defenceless city made in her defperate condition , one may judge of what fhe might have done in her full ftrength ...
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Page 216 - 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 216 - 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 7 - That different nations ought, in time of peace, to do one another all the good they can, and, in time of war, as little harm as possible, without prejudice to their own real interests.
Page 183 - It is very probable," says he,* " that mankind would have been obliged, at length, to live constantly under the Government of a single person, had they not contrived a kind of Constitution, that has all the internal advantages of a Republican, together with the external force of a Monarchical Government.
Page 213 - In governments, that is, in societies directed by laws, liberty can consist only in the power of doing what we ought to will, and in not being constrained to do what we ought not to will.
Page 46 - Honor, therefore, has its supreme laws, to which education is obliged to conform. The chief of these are, that we are permitted to set a value upon our fortune, but are absolutely forbidden to set any upon our lives. " The second is, that when we are raised to a post or preferment, we should never...
Page 426 - 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 223 - ... it once corrupted would no longer expect any good from its laws; and of course they would either become desperate or fall into a state of indolence.
Page 421 - ... 9. Of the Vanity and Pride of Nations. Vanity is as advantageous to a government as pride is dangerous. To be convinced of this we need only represent, on the one hand, the numberless benefits which result from vanity, as industry, the arts, fashions, politeness, and taste; on the other, the infinite evils which spring from the pride of certain nations, as laziness, poverty, a total neglect of everything— in fine, the destruction of the...