 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
 | René Descartes, Voltaire, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Thomas Hobbes - 1910 - 436 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... | |
 | 1910 - 470 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... | |
 | Singleton Waters Davis - 1910 - 170 pages
...so-called laws of nature — " the dictates of reason " — are not properly called laws, because " law> properly, is the word of him that by right hath command over others ;" but when considered not as conclusions of reason, but " as delivered in the word of God, that by... | |
 | Sir John Macdonell, Edward Manson - 1914 - 684 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... | |
 | Francis William Coker - 1914 - 608 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... | |
 | Henry Percy Farrell - 1917 - 238 pages
...guards himself by declaring that although generally called laws these are only the dictates of reason, " whereas Law, properly is the word of him, that by right hath command over others." Nevertheless if we consider that these dictates of reason come ultimately from God, " then are they... | |
 | James Mickel Williams - 1920 - 522 pages
...which represents the mandates of justice.8 Hobbes, also an apologist of absolutism, declared that " law, properly, is the word of him that by right hath command over others." T In case of a conflict between the will of the ruler and the alleged divine law " subjects are bound... | |
 | Robert Lansing - 1921 - 114 pages
...authority the law was first made, but by whose authority it continues to be a law.' " Austin, p. 220. "Law, properly, is the word of him that by right hath command over others." Hobbes, Leviathan, ch. xv. case the act of the sovereign is usually supplemented by a formal declaration,... | |
 | Sir William Searle Holdsworth - 1924 - 758 pages
...name of Lawes ; but improperly : for they are but Conclusions, or Theoremes concerning what conduced] 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 theoremes, as delivered in the word of God, that by right commandeth... | |
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