The Spirit of Laws, Volume 1J. Nourse and P. Vaillant, 1750 - Jurisprudence |
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... those things as alike , which are really different ; and left I should miss the difference of those which appear to be alike . I have not drawn my principles from my prejudices , but from the nature of things , Here Here a great many ...
... those things as alike , which are really different ; and left I should miss the difference of those which appear to be alike . I have not drawn my principles from my prejudices , but from the nature of things , Here Here a great many ...
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... Those who affert that a blind fatality produced the various effects we behold in this world , are guilty of a very great abfurdity ; for can any thing be more abfurd than to pretend thar a blind fatality could be productive of ...
... Those who affert that a blind fatality produced the various effects we behold in this world , are guilty of a very great abfurdity ; for can any thing be more abfurd than to pretend thar a blind fatality could be productive of ...
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... those by which he preferves them . He acts according to thefe rules because he knows them he knows them because he has made them ; and he made them because they are relative to his wifdom and power . As we see that the world , tho ...
... those by which he preferves them . He acts according to thefe rules because he knows them he knows them because he has made them ; and he made them because they are relative to his wifdom and power . As we see that the world , tho ...
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... those who were to chufe , but those who were capable of being chofen ; wherefore leaving to each citizen the right of election , he made ( 8 ) the judges eligi- ble from each of those four claffes ; but the magif- ( ) Dio- trates he ...
... those who were to chufe , but those who were capable of being chofen ; wherefore leaving to each citizen the right of election , he made ( 8 ) the judges eligi- ble from each of those four claffes ; but the magif- ( ) Dio- trates he ...
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... those who prefented themselves fhould be elected ; that the perfon elect- ( * ) See the ed fhould be examined by judges ( h ) , and that every oration of one fhould have a right to accufe him if he were thenes de unworthy of the office ...
... those who prefented themselves fhould be elected ; that the perfon elect- ( * ) See the ed fhould be examined by judges ( h ) , and that every oration of one fhould have a right to accufe him if he were thenes de unworthy of the office ...
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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...