| John Leland - 1764 - 470 pages
...cenfurer has offered on this fubject. He firft layeth it down as a principle, that " God cannot command in particular what he forbids in general. He who has...lies wholly in the words rob and murder, both which carry the idea of depriving others of their lives and properties, without a juft caufe, and without... | |
| Henry St. John Bolingbroke (Viscount) - 1809 - 530 pages
...system to which we belong are unknown to us ; but this we know most certainly, that he cannot command in particular, what he forbids in general. He who...the fundamental law of our nature, can never command some to rob, or to murder others ; to usurp on the rights of their fellow creatures, and to to exterminate... | |
| Henry St. John Bolingbroke (Viscount) - 1841 - 540 pages
...system to which we belong are unknown to us; but this we know most certainly, that he cannot command in particular, what he forbids in general. He who...the fundamental law of our nature, can never command some to rob, or to murder others; to usurp on the rights of their fellowcreatures, and to exterminate... | |
| Henry St. John Bolingbroke (Viscount) - 1841 - 546 pages
...system to which we belong are unknown to us; but this we know most certainly, that he cannot command in particular, what he forbids in general. He who...the fundamental law of our nature, can never command some to rob, or to murder others; to usurp on the rights of their fellowcreatures, and to exterminate... | |
| Henry St. John Bolingbroke (Viscount) - 1841 - 550 pages
...system to which we belong are unknown to us; but this we know most certainly, that he cannot command in particular, what he forbids in general. He who...the fundamental law of our nature, can never command some to rob, or to murder others; to usurp on the rights of their fellowcreatures, and to exterminate... | |
| Henry St. John Bolingbroke (Viscount) - 1841 - 544 pages
...system to which we belong are unknown to us; but this we know most certainly, that he cannot command in particular, what he forbids in general. He who has made benevolence to all rational buings the fundamental la\v of our nature, can never command some to rob, or to murder others; to usurp... | |
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