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Henry Dagge. proper cognizance of their firft advances to guilt . With refpect to punishments ; in general , I have likewife endeavoured to fhew , that the apprehension of death is not a fufficient motive of terror ; that the ftrongeft ...
Henry Dagge. proper cognizance of their firft advances to guilt . With refpect to punishments ; in general , I have likewife endeavoured to fhew , that the apprehension of death is not a fufficient motive of terror ; that the ftrongeft ...
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... refpect to human laws , the fupreme magiftrate , or fovereign body- politic , whether fole or aggregate , in whom the power of legiflation is vested by the confent , either tacit or expreffed , per- fonal or representative , of the ...
... refpect to human laws , the fupreme magiftrate , or fovereign body- politic , whether fole or aggregate , in whom the power of legiflation is vested by the confent , either tacit or expreffed , per- fonal or representative , of the ...
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... refpect to ourselves , is antece- dent to that by which we difcover our obligations with regard to others . + The fame reasoning may be applied to the other diftinctions , for internal and ex- ternal , moral and political , perfect and ...
... refpect to ourselves , is antece- dent to that by which we difcover our obligations with regard to others . + The fame reasoning may be applied to the other diftinctions , for internal and ex- ternal , moral and political , perfect and ...
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... refpect to others , they retained their natural liberty ; and confequently remained in a State of Na- ture . 1 With regard to our first parents , the wife , by reafon of the imbecillity of her fex , was in fubjection to her husband ...
... refpect to others , they retained their natural liberty ; and confequently remained in a State of Na- ture . 1 With regard to our first parents , the wife , by reafon of the imbecillity of her fex , was in fubjection to her husband ...
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... refpect to religious orders of men , they cannot properly be faid to live in a State of Nature ; neither are these com- munities confiderable enough to illuftrate this queftion . Add to this , that Grotius has not given any precife ...
... refpect to religious orders of men , they cannot properly be faid to live in a State of Nature ; neither are these com- munities confiderable enough to illuftrate this queftion . Add to this , that Grotius has not given any precife ...
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Page 9 - Of law there can be no less acknowledged, than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world ; all things in heaven and earth do her homage, the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power...
Page 254 - The centre mov'd, a circle straight succeeds, Another still, and still another spreads ; Friend, parent, neighbour, first it will embrace ; His country next, and next all human race ; Wide and more wide, th...
Page 132 - ... leaving the law to the court, but find for the plaintiff or defendant upon the issue to be tried, wherein they resolve both law and fact complicately, and not the fact by itself ; so as though they answer not singly to the question what is the law, yet they determine the law in all matters, where issue is joined and tried in the principal Dissenting Opinion: Gray, Shiras, JJ. case, but [ie except] where the verdict is special.
Page 223 - I am one, , Whom the vile blows and buffets of the world Have fo incens'd, that I am recklefs what I do, to fpite the world. 1 Mur. And I another, So weary with difafters, tugg'd with fortune, That I would fet my life on any chance, To mend it, or be rid on't.
Page xxiv - ... What a lamentable case it is to see so many Christian men and women strangled on that cursed tree of the gallows ; insomuch as if in a large field a man might see together all the Christians, that but in one year throughout England come to that untimely and ignominious death, if there were any spark of grace or charity in him, it would make his heart to bleed for pity and compassion.
Page 46 - For as many as have sinned without law, shall also perish without law ; and as many as have sinned in the law, shall be judged by the law ; (for not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified.
Page 291 - If a man counterfeit the King's money; and if a man bring false money into the realm counterfeit to the money of England, knowing the money to be false, to merchandise and make payment withal.
Page 417 - Statutes in that case made and provided, and against the peace of our Sovereign Lord the King, his crown, and dignity.
Page xxix - ... happily force their way to the thrones of princes be it known to them, that they come attended with the...
Page 134 - L not not guilty : for, to fay the truth, it were the moft unhappy cafe that could be t6 the Judge, if he at his peril muft take upon him the guilt or innocence of the prifoner; and if the Judge's opinion muft rule the matter of fact, the trial by Jury would be ufelefs.