 | 1760 - 556 pages
...and receive from nature the fame obligations and rights. Power or weaknefs does not in this refpe£t produce any difference. A dwarf is as much a man as a giant ; a fmall republic is as much a fovereign ftate as the moft powerful kingdom. * From a neceflary confequence... | |
 | Emer de Vattel - 1797 - 1216 pages
...and inherit from nature the fame obligations and rights. Power or weakneis does not in this rcfpect produce any difference. A dwarf is as much a man as a giant; a ;mall republic is no ¡els a fovcrcun ftatc than the moil powerful kingdom. By a neceifary conlequencc... | |
 | Enoch Lewis - 1828 - 390 pages
...proceeding from nature, nations composed of men, and considered as so many free men living together in a state of nature, are naturally equal, and inherit...dwarf is as much a man as a giant, a small republic is no less a sovereign state than the most powerful kingdom. By a necessary consequence of that equality,... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1849 - 790 pages
...whatever might be their territorial limits. This principle is fully recognised in Vattel. who says : " A dwarf is as much a man as a giant ; a small Republic is as much a sovereign Slate as the most powerful Kingdom." Upon this principle was the old Confederation... | |
 | 1846 - 416 pages
...considered as so many free persons living together in the state of nature, are naturally equal, and receive from nature the same obligations and rights. Power...dwarf is as much a man as a giant — a small republic is as much a sovereign state as the most powerful kingdom." It would be exceedingly gratifying to me,... | |
 | Travers Twiss - 1846 - 304 pages
...footing of perfect equality as to their obligations and rights. " Power or weakness," observes Vattel, "does not in this respect produce any difference....dwarf is as much a man as a giant : a small republic is no less a sovereign state than the most powerful kingdom ;" so that every argument which rests on... | |
 | Emer de Vattel - 1852 - 666 pages
...nafrom nature — Nations composed of men, and considered as so many free persons living together in a state of nature, are naturally equal, and inherit...dwarf is as much a man as a giant ; a small republic is no less a sovereign state than the most powerful kingdom. By a necessary consequence of that equality,... | |
 | Emer de Vattel, Edward Duncan Ingraham - 1852 - 670 pages
...from nature — Nations composed of men, and considered as so many free persons living together in a state of nature, are naturally equal, and inherit...dwarf is as much a man as a giant ; a small republic is no less a sovereign state than the most powerful kingdom. By a necessary consequence of that equality,... | |
 | Henry Allon - 1852 - 620 pages
...same obligations and the same rights. Powerfulness or weakness makes no difference in this respect. A dwarf is as much a man as a giant ; a small republic is no less a sovereign state than the most powerful kingdom. It is a necessary consequence of this... | |
 | George White - 1854 - 750 pages
...proceeding from nature; nations composed of men, and considered as so many free persons living together in a state -of nature, are naturally equal, and inherit...dwarf is as much a man as a giant ; a small republic is no less a sovereign State than the most powerful kingdom/' The thirteen States of this Union, then,... | |
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A dwarf is as much a man as a giant; a small republic is no less a sovereign state than the most powerful kingdom. 
