 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...  Christian Pamphlets - Page 191844Full view - About this book
 | Alexander Wilson M'Clure - Universalism - 1838 - 132 pages
...derive their authority from their conformity with the requirements of heaven. Says Blackstone; — 'This law of nature being coeval with mankind, and...their force and all their authority, mediately or immediateIv from this original.' On this ground the statute < often inflicts the penalty of death or... | |
 | William Blackstone - Great Britain - 1838 - 910 pages
...that action is destructive of man's real happiness, and therefore that the law of nature forbids it. This law of nature, being coeval with mankind, and...superior in obligation to any other. It is binding over afl the globe, in all countries, and at all times : no human laws are of any validity, if contrary... | |
 | William Blackstone, James Stewart - Civil rights - 1839 - 556 pages
...mankind and die- which is su. tated by God himself, is of course superior in obligation to othe"1 oany any other. It is binding over all the globe in all...human laws are of any validity, if contrary to this : 1 and such of them as are valid derive all their force, and all their authority, mediately or immediately,... | |
 | United States - 1841 - 640 pages
...shall pursne his own true and substantial happiness." And Blackstone in his Commentaries remarks, "that this law of nature, being coeval with mankind, and...their authority, mediately or immediately, from this original." Now the man of the highest mental endowment and culture naturally perceives and adopts that... | |
 | 1842 - 840 pages
...pursue his own true and substantial happiness.'''' And Blackstone, in his Commentaries, remarks, " That this law of Nature, being coeval with mankind, and...their authority, mediately or immediately, from this original.1" Now the man of the highest mental endowment and culture naturally perceives and adopts... | |
 | Fitzwilliam Byrdsall - New York (State) - 1842 - 200 pages
...and restrained, and gave him also the faculty of reason to discover the purport of those laws.' " ' This law of nature being coeval with mankind, and...obligation to any other. It is binding over all the glob^ and in all countries and at all times ; NO HUMAN LAWS ARE OF ANY VALIDITY, IF CONTRARY TO THIS;... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton - United States - 1842 - 512 pages
...mankind, prior to any human institution whatever. This is what is called the law of nature, " which, being coeval with mankind, and dictated by God himself, is, of course, superior in obligations to any other. It is binding over all the globe, in all countries, and at all times. No... | |
 | Fitzwilliam Byrdsall - New York (State) - 1842 - 204 pages
...and in all countries and at all times; x: HUMAN LAWS ARE OF ANY VALIDITY, IF CONTRARY TO THIS; att such of them as are valid derive all their FORCE and all their ATJTHOB ITY MEDIATELY or IMMEDIATELY from this original.' — BlackstoK'i Com. Vol. I. pp. 39, 40,... | |
 | Phrenology - 1843 - 454 pages
...pursue his own true and substantial happiness.'' And Blackstone, in his Commentaries, remarks, " That this law of Nature, being coeval with mankind, and...their authority, mediately or immediately, from this original.'" Now the man of the highest mental endowment and culture naturally perceives and adopts... | |
 | Criticism - 1850 - 676 pages
...either in nature or in the Bible, it is null and void. This is his language. The italics are ours. " This law of nature being coeval with mankind, and...their authority, mediately or immediately, from this original." "Divine Providence in compassion to the frailty, the imperfection, and the blindness of... | |
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