Institutes of Natural Law: Being the Substance of a Course of Lectures on Grotius De Jure Belli Et Pacis |
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Page 424 - with at all. When some of our Saviour's disciples were displeased with the woman, who had poured a box of precious ointment on his head, which, as they urged, might have been sold for much, and given to the poor, he defends her upon this principle. Jesus said, let her alone, why trouble ye her? she hath wrought a good work on roe:
Page 22 - destroyed no part of the portion of goods that belonged to others, so long as nothing perished uselessly in his hands. Again, if he would give his nuts for a piece of metal, pleased with its colour, or exchange his sheep for shells or wool, for a sparkling pebble or a diamond, and keep
Page 22 - But how far has he given it us? To enjoy. As much as any one can make use of, to any advantage of life, before it spoils, so much he may, by his labour, fix a property in: whatever is beyond this, is more than his share, and belongs to others. Nothing was made by God for man to spoil or destroy.
Page 424 - for ye have the poor with you always, and whensoever ye will, ye may do them good; but me ye have not always. The reasonableness
Page 53 - such heiresses should marry to whom they think best, only to the family of the tribe of their father. XI. Though the order of succession, which we have Order of succesbeen describing, is called a natural one, yet it is not for
Page 162 - shalt thou take a wife to her sister to vex her, to uncover her nakedness besides the other in her life-time.—This passage is rendered in the margin—Thou shalt not take one wife to another,
Page 22 - by him all his life, he invaded not the rights of others; he might heap up as much of these durable things as he pleased; the exceeding the bounds of his just property not lying in the largeness of his
Page 22 - And if he also bartered away plums that would have rotted in a week, for nuts that would last good for his eating a whole year, he did no injury; he wasted not the common stock;
Page 314 - power to transfer their authority of making laws, and place it in other hands." But, then, though a king with legislative power, cannot, in virtue of such legislative power, alienate his kingdom, so that sovereignty
Page 540 - should otherwise have a right to take, if they did not happen to be in such places as he has an exclusive right to. In like manner, though we have a general right to take the goods of an enemy, when they are out at sea, yet there is some reason to doubt, whether the