 | William Goodell - Enslaved persons - 1853 - 458 pages
...dictated by God himself, is, of course, superior in obligation to every other. It is binding all over the globe, in all countries, and at all times. No human laws have ANY VALIDITY if contrary to THIS ; and such of them as are valid derive all their force, mediately... | |
 | George E. Baker - 1855 - 436 pages
...course superior to any other. It is binding over all the globe, in all countries, and at all time. No human laws are of any validity if contrary to this ; and such of them as are valid derive all their authority mediately or immediately from this original." Then, as if despising to stand on any mere... | |
 | George E. Baker - 1855 - 424 pages
...course superior to any other. It is binding over all the globe, in all countries, and at all time. jSTo human laws are of any validity if contrary to this ; and such of them as are valid derive all their authority mediately or immediately from this original." Then, as if despising to stand on any mere... | |
 | Aristotle - 1857 - 532 pages
...which is the duty of every individual in society. Oral. i. contr. Aristogit. Notes on Blackstone. 3 This law of nature, being coeval with mankind, and...himself, is of course superior in obligation to any intuitively divine, even should no intercourse with each other, nor any compact have existed4; which... | |
 | William Gannaway Brownlow, Abram Pryne - History - 1868 - 322 pages
...homage; the least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power."—Hooker. " This law of nature being coeval with mankind, and...their authority, mediately, or immediately, from this original."—Blackstone, Vol. I, p. 41. " Jurisprudence is the science of what is just and unjust."... | |
 | American Home Missionary Society - Congregational churches - 1859 - 752 pages
...British authority, said : " The law of nature being coeval with God himself, is of course superior to any other. It is binding over all the globe, in...this ; and such of them as are valid derive all their authority from this original." Said Washington, when announcing the treaty of peace to the army : "... | |
 | William Blackstone, George Sharswood - Law - 1860 - 874 pages
...(and all men possess this in a sufficient degree of strength,) the only conceivable difference between This law of nature, being coeval with mankind, and...obligation to any other. It is binding over all the «rlobe in all countries, and at all times: no human laws are of any validity, if contrary to this... | |
 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - United States - 1863 - 878 pages
...law, and then adds, that this law, which he calls " the law of nature," or the law of the creature, is " binding over all the globe, in all countries,...laws are of any validity if contrary to this." And further, that God has also made a revelation of this same will to man, and that "upon these two foundations,... | |
 | Charles Tennant - Utilitarianism - 1864 - 486 pages
...Sir William Blackstone wrote: " No human laws are of any validity if contrary to the law of nature; and such of them as are valid derive all their force...authority mediately or immediately from this original." This is good for teaching that a legislature does not necessarily exercise a divine right, but only... | |
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Commentaries remarks, that this law of Nature being coeval with mankind, and dictated by God himself, is of course superior in obligation to any other. It is binding over all the globe, in all countries and at all times; no human laws are of any validity... 
