| 1912 - 404 Seiten
...true and substantial happiness.' Blackstone, in his Commentaries, remarks, that this law of Nature being coeval with mankind and dictated by God himself, is of course superior in obllgation to any other. It is binding over all the globe, in all countries, and at all times; no human... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1912 - 644 Seiten
...After this, he says of- "Ethics, or Natural Law" : "This -kw of nature being coeval with maritind, and dictated by God himself, is of course superior in obligation to any other. It is binding all over the globe in all countries and at all times. No human laws are of... | |
| 1916 - 804 Seiten
...and can never be erased or obscured by human power. That is what is called the law of nature, which, being coeval with mankind and dictated by God himself, is, of course, superior in obligation to any other. No human laws are of any validity if contrary to this. It is binding over all the globe,... | |
| Albert Benedict Wolfe - 1916 - 826 Seiten
...own true and substantial happiness." Blackstone in his Commentaries remarks, that this law of Nature being coeval with mankind, and dictated by God himself, is of course superior in obligation to any other. It is binding over all the globe, in all countries and at all times ; no human laws are... | |
| Elliot N. Dorff, Arthur I. Rosett, Jewish Theological Seminary of America - 1988 - 622 Seiten
...dictates of private or public morality. Thus Blackstone lays down in so many words that the "law of nature being coeval with mankind, and dictated by God himself, is of course superior in obligation to any other. It is binding over all the globe, in all countries, and at all times: no human laws are... | |
| Daniel Patrick Moynihan - 1990 - 228 Seiten
...his introduction to Commentaries on the Laws of England (1765-1769), has it thus: This law of nature, being co-eval with mankind and dictated by God himself, is of course superior in obligation to any other. It is binding over all the globe, in all countries, and at all times: no human laws are... | |
| Charles Joseph Adams, Wael B. Hallaq, Donald Presgrave Little - 1991 - 292 Seiten
...conform to his Maker's will. This will of his Maker is called the law of nature. ... This law of nature, being coeval with mankind, and dictated by God himself, is of course superior in obligation to any other. It is binding over all the globe in all countries, and at all times: no human laws are of... | |
| Beryl Harold Levy - 192 Seiten
...mind, and so he was not deterred from paradoxically echoing Cicero and Aquinas: "The law of nature being coeval with mankind and dictated by God himself is of course, superior in obligation to any other. It is binding over all the globe, in all countries and at all times; no human laws are of... | |
| James Mill - 1992 - 366 Seiten
...destructive of man's real happiness, and therefore, that the law of nature forbids it. This law of nature, being coeval with mankind, and dictated by God himself, is of course superior in obligation to any other. It is binding over all the globe, in all countries, and at all times. No human laws are... | |
| Harvey Flaumenhaft - 1992 - 340 Seiten
...mankind, prior to any human institution whatever." This is "what is called the law of nature, 'which, being coeval with mankind, and dictated by God himself is, of course, superior in obligation to any other. It is binding over all the globe, in all countries, and at all times. No human laws are... | |
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