 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
 | James Fitzjames Stephen - 1892 - 440 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.' The laws of nature are, according to Hobbes, the terms upon which a compromise between the conflicting... | |
 | Patrick Francis Quigley - 1894 - 642 pages
...name of ' laws,' but improperly, for they are but conclusions or theorems concerning what couduceth to the conservation and defence of themselves. Whereas law, properly, is the word of him that hath by right command over others." John Locke, who opposed, and successfully, Hobbe's theory, that... | |
 | 1896 - 800 pages
...merely " conclusions or theorems concerning what conduceth to the conservation and defense " of men. " Law, properly, is the word of him that by right hath command over others." 2 The ultimate human right to command is vested in the sovereign by the contract through which the... | |
 | Thomas Hobbes - 1898 - 408 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 - 1903 - 444 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... | |
 | William Archibald Dunning - 1905 - 480 pages
...merely " conclusions or theorems concerning what conduceth to the conservation and defence " of men. " Law, properly, is the word of him that by right hath command over others." 1 The ultimate human right to command is vested in the sovereign by the contract through which the... | |
 | 1907 - 586 pages
...authority the law was first made, but by whose authority it continues to be a law." (Austin, p. 177.) Law, properly, is the word of him that by right hath command over others. (Hobbes: The Leviathan, ch. xv.) ment of a legislature. (4) By tacit acquiescence of the sovereign,... | |
 | 1907 - 590 pages
...authority the law was first made, but by whose authority it continues to be a law." (Austin, p. 177.) Law, properly, is the word of him that by right hath command over others. (Hobbes: The Leviathan, ch. xv.) ment of a legislature. (4) By tacit acquiescence of the sovereign,... | |
 | 1908 - 768 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... | |
 | Benjamin Rand - 1909 - 832 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... | |
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