 These dictates of reason men used to call by the name of laws, but improperly; for they are but conclusions or theorems concerning what conduceth to the conservation and defence of themselves; whereas law, properly, is the word of him that by right hath...  Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature - Page 63edited by - 1848Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Hobbes - 1839 - 766 pages
...name of laws, but improperly : for they are but conclusions, or theorems concerning what conduceth to the conservation and defence of themselves ; whereas...word of him, that by right hath command over others. But yet if we consider the same theorems, as delivered in the word of God, that by right commandeth... | |
 | Thomas Hobbes - 1839 - 766 pages
...Phil°«°Phyname of laws, but improperly : for they are but conclusions, or theorems concerning what conduceth to the conservation and defence of themselves; whereas...word of him, that by right hath command over others. But yet if we consider the same theorems, as delivered in the word of God, that by right commandeth... | |
 | 1848 - 614 pages
...name of Jawes, but improperly; for they are but conclusions or theoremes concerning what conduceth to the conservation and defence of themselves, whereas...law properly is the word of him that by right hath command'over others." — Ibid. Yet being prescribed by reason, they become so far authoritative that... | |
 | Thomas Hobbes - 1845 - 294 pages
...laws of nature, improperly called laws. iii. 147, 253. ii. 49. iv. 109, 285. a law, properly speaking, is the word of him that by right hath command over others. iii. 147. ii. 49: — is a command. iv. 109, 205. vi. 26. the laws of nature, if considered as the... | |
 | Henry Allon - 1847 - 586 pages
...name of lawes, but improperly; for they are but conclusions or theoremes concerning what conduceth to the conservation and defence of themselves, whereas...; and, in summe, doing to others as they would be done to,' are the prescriptions of nature. With this understanding they are prepared for society. Having... | |
 | Alexander Bain - 1868 - 904 pages
...SUMMARY. 555 His last remark is, that these dictates of reason are improperly called laws, because ' law, properly, is the word of him that by right hath command over others.' But when considered not as mere conclusions or theorems concerning the means of conservation and defence,... | |
 | Alexander Bain - 1869 - 348 pages
...fortitude.' His last remark is, that these dictates of reason are improperly called laws, because l law, properly, is the word of him that by right hath command over others.' But when considered not as mere conclusions or theorems concerning the means of conservation and defence,... | |
 | 1874 - 1178 pages
...the name of laws, but improperly, for they are but conclusions or theorems concerning what conduceth to the conservation and defence of themselves, whereas...word of him that by right hath command over others. But yet if we consider the same theorems as delivered in the word of God that by right commandeth all... | |
 | Thomas Hobbes - 1886 - 328 pages
...name of laws, but improperly : for they are but conclusions, or theorems concerning what con. duceth to the conservation and defence of themselves; whereas...word of him that by right hath command over others. But yet if we consider the same theorems, as delivered in the word of God, that by right comraandeth... | |
 | Thomas Hobbes - 1889 - 932 pages
...name of laws, but improperly : for they are but conclusions, or theorems concerning what con. dnceth to the conservation and defence of themselves; whereas...word of him that by right hath command over others. But yet if we consider the same theorems, as delivered in the word of God, that by right commandeth... | |
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