 | Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain) - 1833 - 584 pages
...revenue, and arms, and whatever else it the object of law ; and to trace, in this way, those invariable principles which ought to run through, and be the foundation of the laws of all nations. In the " Wealth of Nations " lie undertook to redeem this pledge, as far as regards police, revenue, and... | |
 | Lives - 1833 - 588 pages
...revenue, and arms, and whatever else is the object of law ; and to trace, in this way, those invariable principles which ought to run through, and be the foundation of the laics of all nations. In the " Wealth of Nations" he undertook to redeem this pledge, as far as regards... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1834 - 376 pages
...Grotius seems to have been the first who attempted to give the world any thing like a system ot those principles which ought to run through, and be the foundation of the laws of all nations ; and his treatise of the laws of War and Peace is, perhaps, ai this day, the most complete work that... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1853 - 616 pages
...aim at establishing a system of what might properly be called natural jurisprudence, or a theory of the general principles which ought to run through,...and be the foundation of, the laws of all nations. But though the reasonings of lawyers did produce something of this kind, and though no man has treated... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1858 - 548 pages
...government under which they live. It is evident, therefore, that the most important branch of I>olitical science is that which has for its object to ascertain...run through and be the foundation of the laws of all nations."1 In countries where the prejudices of the people are widely at variance with these principles,... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1854 - 660 pages
...Grotius seems to have been the first who attempted to give the world anything like a system of those principles which ought to run through, and be the foundation of the laws of ah1 nations ; and his Treatise of the Laws of Peace and War. with all its imperfections, is perhaps,... | |
 | 1853 - 460 pages
...own fault.1 Not that he ever contemplated what Smith meant by natural jurisprudence, a theory of the principles which ought to run through and be the foundation of the laws of all nations. But he knew that the judge in the tribunal, and the inward judge in the breast, even where their necessity... | |
 | Travers Twiss - 1856 - 96 pages
...Grotius, as of one who was the first " to attempt to give to the world anything like a system of those principles which ought to run through and be the foundation of the laws of all nations ; and his treatise on the laws of peace and war, with all its imperfections, is perhaps at this day... | |
 | 1857 - 388 pages
...Smith regards Grotius as the first who attempted to give the world anything like a system of those principles which ought to run through and be the foundation of the laws of all nations. Grotius placed the science on a sure and sound footing, and may justly be regarded as the parent of... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1858 - 556 pages
...government is interesting chiefly to the small mmilx.T of men whose object is the attainment of political I importance ; but the equity and expediency of the...through and be the foundation of the laws of all, nations."1 In countries where the prejudices of the people are widely at variance with these principles,... | |
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... a theory of the general principles which ought to run through, and be the foundation of, the laws of all nations. 
