Die Rechtsverhältnisse bei verschiedenen Völkern der Erde, Page 43

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Page 46 - Brazil. No sea but what is vexed by their fisheries. No climate that is not witness to their toils. Neither the perseverance of Holland, nor the activity of France, nor the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprise, ever carried this most perilous mode of hardy...
Page viii - La loi, en général, est la raison humaine, en tant qu'elle gouverne tous les peuples de la terre; et les lois politiques et civiles de chaque nation ne doivent être que les cas particuliers où s'applique cette raison humaine.
Page 46 - But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators, has succeeded ; and the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever.
Page 192 - Il est vrai que dans les démocraties le peuple paraît faire ce qu'il veut; mais la liberté politique ne consiste point à faire ce que l'on veut. Dans un Etat, c'est-à-dire dans une société où il ya des lois, la liberté ne peut consister qu'à pouvoir faire ce que l'on doit vouloir, et à n'être point contraint de faire ce que l'on ne doit pas vouloir.
Page 104 - Ceteris servis, non in nostrum morem descriptis per familiam ministeriis, utuntur. Suam quisque sedem, suos penates regit. Frumenti modum dominus, aut pecoris aut vestis, ut colono, injungit: et servus hactenus paret; cetera domus officia uxor ac liberi exsequuntur.
Page lxxx - But our knowledge does not urge us to search out the roots of it ; we do not try to see them ; if any one thinks ever so little, he soon gives it up, and passes on to what he sees with his eyes ; and he does not understand the real state of even what he sees.
Page 151 - Toute distinction ou appellation tendant à rendre une classe quelconque des sujets de mon Empire inférieure à une autre classe, à raison du culte, de la langue ou de la race , sera à jamais effacée du protocole administratif.
Page 135 - Sages who know former times consider this earth (Prit'hivi) as the wife of King Prithu; and thus they pronounce cultivated land to be the property of him who cut away the wood, or who cleared and tilled the land.
Page 280 - Cabin, and gave them so much wine and aqua vitae that they were all merrie; and one of them had his wife with him, which sate so modestly, as any of our Countrey women would do in a strange place.
Page lix - ... criminal appearing and submitting himself to the ordeal of having spears thrown at him by all such persons as conceive themselves to have been aggrieved, or by permitting spears to be thrust through certain parts of his body ; such as through the thigh, or the calf of the leg, or under the arm. The part which is to be pierced by a spear is fixed for all common crimes, and a native who has incurred this penalty sometimes quietly holds out his leg for the injured party to thrust his spear through...

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