Samuelis Rachelii ... De jure naturae et gentium dissertationes, Issue 5, Part 2Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1916 - International law |
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Page 69 - And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: that they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
Page 52 - ... just before God, but the doers of a law shall be justified : for when Gentiles which have no law do by nature the things of the law...
Page 56 - May all the gods and goddesses destroy me more miserably than I feel myself to be daily perishing, if I know at know at this moment what to write to you, Senators, how to write it, or what, in short, not to write.
Page 70 - To this war of every man against every man, this also is consequent : that nothing can be unjust. The notions of right and wrong, justice and injustice have there no place. Where there is no common power, there is no law: where no law, no injustice.
Page 161 - As those (conditions), from first to last, have been recited openly from those tablets or wax without wicked fraud, and as they have been most correctly understood here this day, from those conditions the Roman people will not be the first to swerve. If they first swerve by public concert, by wicked fraud, on that day do thou, 0 Jupiter, so strike the Roman people, as I shall here this day strike this swine ; and do thou strike them so much the more, as thou art more able and more powerful.
Page 65 - I may define it, is the dictate of right reason,* conversant about those things which are either to be done or omitted for the constant preservation of life and members, as much as in us lies.
Page 70 - There are two things necessary for the people's defence; to be warned and to be forearmed. For the state of commonwealths considered in themselves, is natural, that is to say, hostile. Neither if they cease from fighting, is it therefore to be called peace, but rather a breathing time, in which one enemy observing the motion and countenance of the other, values his security not according to the pacts, but the forces and counsels of his adversary.
Page 7 - To these we may add the poets ; who, on account of the appearance they exhibit of learning and wisdom, are heard, read, and got by heart, and make a deep impression on our minds. But when to these are added the people, who are as it were one great body of instructors, and the multitude, who declare...
Page 179 - All slaves are in the power of their masters, which power is derived from the law of nations ; for it is equally observable among all nations, that masters have had the power of life and death over their slaves ; and that whatsoever is acquired by the slave, is acquired for the master.