...feems to have been the firft " who attempted to give the world any thing like *' a Jyft em °f thofe principles which ought to run " through, and be the foundation of, the lavas of all t' nations; and his treatife of the Laws of War and " Peace, with all its imperfections,...

...Grotius was the first, and perhaps the only writer, who had given any thing like a system of those principles which ought to run through, and be the foundation of the law of nations, Mr Smith promised, in another discourse, ' to give an account of the general principles...

...aim at eftablifliing a fyftem of what might properly be called natural jurifprudence, or a theory of the general principles which ought to run through and be the foundation of the laws of all nations. But though the VOL. i. » K reafonings PART reafonings of lawyers did produce fomething of vn< this...

...Grotius seems to have been the first who attempted to give the world any thing like a system of those principles which ought to run through, and be the foundation of the laws of all nations ; and his treatise of the laws of War and Peace is, perbaps, at this day, the most complete work that...

...Grotius seems to have been the first who attempted to give ihe world any thing like a system of those principles which ought to run through, and be the foundation of the laws of all nations ; and his Treatise of the Laws of Peace and War, with all its imperfections, is perhaps, at this day,...

...Grotius seems to have been the first who attempted to give the world any thing like a system of those principles which ought to run through, and be the foundation of the laws of all nations ; and his Treatise of the Laws of Peace and War, with all its imperfections, is perhaps, at this day,...

...Grotius seems to have been the first who attempted to give the world any thing like a system of those principles which ought to run through, and be the foundation of the laws of all nations ; and his Treatise of the Laws of Peace and War, with all its imperfections, is perhaps, at this day,...

...general principles which,1" as has been observed by a writer of the highest class and authority,* " ought to run through and be the foundation of the laws of all nations.1^ It will be observed from what has been now stated, that political science takes cognizance...

...revenue, and arms, and whatever else is the object of law ; and to trace, in this way, those invariable principles which ought to run through, and be the foundation of the laws of all nations. In the " Wealth of Nations " he undertook to redeem this pledge, as far as regards police, revenue, and...

...positive institution,' to which Adam Smith refers in a passage already quoted ; ' that theory of the principles which ought to run through, and be the foundation of the laws of all nations.' This is that ' right reason ' described by Cicero as ' itself a law ; congenial to the feelings of...