Essays in Political and Moral PhilosophyHodges, Foster & Figgis, 1879 - 483 páginas |
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... rise of individuals such as Marius , Sylla , Catiline , and Cæsar , and of such as Cato , the representative of an ancient cause . When the conquests of the Romans had spread beyond Italy , and no formidable rival kept the safety of the ...
... rise of individuals such as Marius , Sylla , Catiline , and Cæsar , and of such as Cato , the representative of an ancient cause . When the conquests of the Romans had spread beyond Italy , and no formidable rival kept the safety of the ...
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... rise to problems of which no peaceful solution has yet been found possible for the most part - knots , as it were , which must be cut with the sword . The efforts of the English sovereigns in the middle ages for the annexation of Wales ...
... rise to problems of which no peaceful solution has yet been found possible for the most part - knots , as it were , which must be cut with the sword . The efforts of the English sovereigns in the middle ages for the annexation of Wales ...
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... rise in arms against the intrusion of western civilization , and that a war of hemispheres may precede the submission by mankind of all their differences to legal arbitration . In societate civili aut lex aut vis valet . The existence ...
... rise in arms against the intrusion of western civilization , and that a war of hemispheres may precede the submission by mankind of all their differences to legal arbitration . In societate civili aut lex aut vis valet . The existence ...
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... rise to a perfectly different system of jurisprudence , had nations themselves , instead of despots , determined their relations towards each other . We hope to show , indeed , that the germs of interna- tional law , in the true sense ...
... rise to a perfectly different system of jurisprudence , had nations themselves , instead of despots , determined their relations towards each other . We hope to show , indeed , that the germs of interna- tional law , in the true sense ...
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... rise to law , even before man- kind have made any considerable advances in the other sciences . On the contrary , in a monarchy law arises not necessarily from the forms of government . Monarchy , when absolute , contains even something ...
... rise to law , even before man- kind have made any considerable advances in the other sciences . On the contrary , in a monarchy law arises not necessarily from the forms of government . Monarchy , when absolute , contains even something ...
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Página 154 - ... greatest value, he intends only his own gain, and he is in this, as in many other cases, led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention.
Página 154 - By preferring the support of domestic to that of foreign industry, he intends only his own security ; and by directing that industry in such a manner as its produce may be of the greatest value, he intends only his own gain; and he is in this, as in many other cases, led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention.
Página 53 - All systems, either of preference or of restraint, therefore, being thus completely taken away, the obvious and simple system of natural liberty establishes itself of its own accord. Every man, as long as he does not violate the laws of justice, is left perfectly free to -pursue his own interest his own way, and to bring both his industry and capital into competition with those of any other man, or order of men.
Página 44 - Of two pleasures, if there be one to which all or almost all who have experience of both give a decided preference irrespective of any feeling of moral obligation to prefer it, that is the more desirable pleasure.
Página 45 - The heart knoweth its own bitterness ; and a stranger intermeddleth not with its joy.
Página 166 - The natural effort of every individual to better his own condition, when suffered to exert itself with freedom and security, is so powerful a principle that it is alone, and without any assistance, not only capable of carrying on the society to wealth and prosperity, but of surmounting a hundred impertinent obstructions with which the folly of human laws too often incumbers its operations...
Página 36 - And after more than two thousand years the same discussions continue, philosophers are still ranged under the same contending banners, and neither thinkers nor mankind at large seem nearer to being unanimous on the subject...
Página 32 - I have been told by an eminent bookseller, that in no branch of his business, after tracts of popular devotion, were so many books as those on the law exported to the plantations. The colonists have now fallen into the way of printing them for their own use. I hear that they have sold nearly as many of Blackstone's Commentaries in America as in England.
Página 44 - It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied ; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied. And if the fool, or the pig, are of a different opinion, it is because they only know their own side of the question. The other party to the comparison knows both sides.
Página 55 - It is a manifest encroachment upon the just liberty both of the workman, and of those who might be disposed to employ him. As it hinders the one from working at what he thinks proper, so it hinders the others from employing whom they think proper.