 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1816 - 574 pages
...easily account for so material a defect in our academical character not having been sooner corrected. would it not be better humbly to investigate the desires,...fears, passions, and opinions of the human being; ami to discover from thence what means an able legislator can employ to connect the private happiness... | |
 | James Paterson - Civil rights - 1877 - 538 pages
...ifc was so contrived that the very place, which any offence is made to occupy, 1 " Blackstone pursues a metaphysical inquiry upon the nature of laws in...those laws which secure the well-being of the whole ? "—5 Gibbon, Misc. Works, 546. 2 3 Bentham, 157. suggests the reason of its being put there. Lastly,... | |
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I have entirely omitted a metaphysical inquiry upon the nature of laws in general, eternal and positive laws, and a number of sublime terms, which I admire as much as I can without understanding them. Instead of following this high priori road, would... 