The Institutes of Law: A Treatise of the Principles of Jurisprudence as Determined by Nature |
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absolute accept Ahrens amongst Aristotle Aryan Aryan race ascribed assertion attainment believe Buddha Bunsen called character charity Christian Church conception Confucius conscience consciousness consequently creed direct distinction divine doctrine doubt duties entitled equality error ethics exhibited existence extent external fact faculties ground Hobbes human idea imperfect impossible individual jurisprudence jurist justice Justitia Universali Kant law of nature legislation liberty limits mankind Max Müller means moral nations natural law object opinion original pantheism perfect philosophy Plato political polytheism positive law possession practical present principle Protagoras quæs question race realization reason recognition recognized reference regarded relation religion result revealed rule says science of jurisprudence sense separate Sir Alexander Grant social Socrates Socratic school sphere Spinoza spirit Stoicism Stoics subjective teaching theology Thomas Aquinas thought tion true truth ultimate universal vindicate virtue whilst whole words
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Page 451 - More things are wrought by prayer Than this world dreams of. Wherefore, let thy voice Rise like a fountain for me night and day. For what are men better than sheep or goats That nourish a blind life within the brain, If, knowing God, they lift not hands of prayer Both for themselves and those who call them friend? For so the whole round earth is every way Bound by gold chains about the feet of God.
Page 45 - When one cultivates to the utmost the principles of his nature, and exercises them on the principle of reciprocity, he is not far from the path. What you do not like when done to yourself, do not do to others.
Page 337 - Trust not in oppression, and become not vain in robbery : if riches increase, set not your heart upon them.
Page 59 - Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, "Why hast thou made me thus ? " Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?
Page 110 - For hatred does not cease by hatred at any time: hatred ceases by love, this is an old rule.
Page 256 - All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory ; they may alter the mode and application, but have no power over the substance of original justice.
Page 176 - What is now called the Christian religion, has existed among the ancients, and was not absent from the beginning of the human race, until Christ came in the flesh : from which time the true religion, which existed already, began to be called Christian.
Page 177 - It may. In the Prayers it is said, ' Prayer has been made to the spirits of the upper and lower worlds.
Page 256 - It would be hard to point out any error more truly subversive of all the order and beauty, of all the peace and happiness, of human society, than the position, that any body of men have a right to make what laws they please ; or that laws can derive any authority from their institution merely and independent of the quality of the subject-matter.
Page 498 - Boards," delivered in 1872 hy Dr Lyon Playfair — himself a high authority — to the Philosophical Institution of Edinburgh. " Eecent events," he says,1 " have strengthened the conviction which De Tocqueville expressed twenty years ago, that there is a continually increasing poverty of eminent men in France. I will cite the evidence only of men of the highest eminence, members of the Institute, or professors in the University itself. Their opinions may be taken as answers to the question which...