 the authority of British law, as he found it written down by Blackstone: " The law of nature being coeval with God himself is of 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...  The Works of William H. Seward - Page 127by William Henry Seward - 1884Full view - About this book
 | Aristotle - 1857 - 532 pages
...injuries some individual; a F'". ns ^. but he who will not bear arms injures the commu- \^"^' nity. other. It is binding over all the globe, in all countries, and at all times: no human laws are of any validity, if contrary to this; and such of them as are valid derive... | |
 | William Gannaway Brownlow - History - 1858 - 310 pages
...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, if contrary to this j and such of them as are valid, derive... | |
 | Lysander Spooner - Fugitive slaves - 1860 - 312 pages
...nature being coeval with mankind, and dictated by God himself, is cf 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, if contrary to this ; and such of them as are valid, derive... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin Morris - United States - 1864 - 842 pages
...course, superior in obligation to any other. No human laws are of any validity if contrary to this. It is binding over all the globe, in all countries, and at all times." In reference to the death of Washington, Hamilton said, " If virtue can secure happiness in... | |
 | William Blackstone - Law - 1865 - 642 pages
...of what we call ethics or natural law; which, being coeval with mankind, is 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, if contrary to its precepts; and such of them as are valid... | |
 | Augustus Choate Hamlin - Nazi concentration camps - 1866 - 290 pages
...superior in obligation to any other. It is binding all over the globe, in all countries and at all times: no human laws are of any validity if contrary to this; and such of them as are valid, derive all their force and all their authority, mediately or immediately, from this original. Human laws originate... | |
 | William Blackstone - Law - 1869 - 694 pages
...of what we call ethics or natural law; which, being coeval with mankind, is 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, if contrary to its precepts; and such of them as are valid... | |
 | James Mill - Ethics - 1870 - 478 pages
...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, if contrary to this: and such of them as are valid derive... | |
 | John Burley Waring - 1873 - 466 pages
...in obligation to every other. It is binding all over the globe, in all countries, and at all times; no human laws are of any validity if contrary to this, and such of them as are valid derive all their force and all their authority, mediately or immediately, from this original.''—^. Bucke, "... | |
 | Herbert Broom, Edward Alfred Hadley - Law - 1875 - 966 pages
...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, if contrary to this; and many of them derive their force... | |
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