The Spirit of Laws, Том 2

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J. Nourse and P. Vaillant, 1750 - 483 страници
 

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Of the commerce of the Greeks and that of Egypt after the conqueft of Alexander
33
Of Carthage and Marſeilles
43
Of the genius of the Romans as to mari time affairs
49
Of the commerce of the Romans with the Barbarians
51
Of the commerce of the Romans with Ara bia and the Indies
52
Of commerce after the deftruction of the Western empire
54
A particular regulation
55
Another of Mr Bayles paradoxes pag
150
Of the laws of perfection in religion
151
Of the connection between the moral laws and thofe of religion
152
Of the Effenes ibid Chap X Of the fect of ftoics
153
Of contemplation
154
Of penance ibid Chap XIII Of inexpiable crimes
155
In what manner religion has an influence on civil laws
156
How falſe religions are ſometimes corrected by the civil laws
158
How the laws of religion correct the in conveniencies of a political conftitution
159
The fame ſubject continued
160
How the laws of religion have the effect of civil laws
161
The fame fubjet continued
163
Of the metempsychosis ibid Chap XXII That it is dangerous for religion to in Spire an averfion for things in themselves indifferent
164
Of feftivals
165
Of the local laws of religion
166
The inconveniency of transplanting a re ligion from one country to another
167
The fame fubject continued
168
Of temples
172
Of the luxury of fuperftition
178
Why the Chriftian religion is fo odious
186
The fame fubject continued
193
That things which ought to be regulated
199
In what inftances marriages between
205
That we ought not to decide by the rules
212
The fame fubject continued pag
213
That the regulations of the police
220
That the laws of the barbarians were
237
The fame ſubject continued
244
The fame fubject continued
250
Another difference
256
Of the ordeal or trial by boiling water eftablished by the Salic law pag
258
Particular notions of our ancestors
259
In what manner the custom of judicial combats gained ground
262
A new reafon of the difufe of the Salic and Roman laws as alſo of the capitularies
268
Origin of the point of honour
270
A new reflection upon the point of honour among the Germans
272
Of the manners relative to judicial com bats
273
Of the code of laws on judicial com bats
275
The fame fubject continued
300
In what manner the proceedings at law became fecret
301
Of the cofts
302
Of the public profecutor
304
In what manner the inftitutions
307
In what manner the judiciary forms were
315
The fame fubject continued
321
BOOK XXIX
327
That laws which feem contrary proceed
334
That laws which appear the fame are Sometimes really different
335
of the Roman laws on theft
336
That we must not feparate the laws from the circumftances in which they were made
339
That fometimes it is proper the law fhould amend itself
340
ibid
344
A bad method of giving laws
346
Of the ideas of uniformity
347
Of legiſlators
348
BOOK XXX
349
Of the fource of feudal laws
350
The origin of vaffalage
351
The fame ſubject continued
352
Of the conqueft of the Franks
353
Of the Goths Burgundians and Franks
354
Different ways of dividing the lands
355
The fame fubject continued
356
A just application of the law of the Burgun dians and of that of the Vifigoths in relation to the divifion of lands
357
Of fervitudes pag
358
Chap
359
Of taxes paid by the Romans and Gauls
365
Of the feudal lords or vaffals
374
Of compofitions among the barbarous
382
Of what was afterwards called the jurif
388
That the jurifdictions were established
395
Of the French nobility
405
BOOK XXXI
413
How the civil government was reformed
418
Of the genius of the nation in regard to
425
In what manner the allodial eftates were
431
State of Europe at the time of Charles
438
Of the elections of bishops and abbots
445
Charlemain
451
The fame fubject continued ibid
460
Changes in the fiefs pag
465
The fame fubject continued
471
The fame fubject continued
482

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Страница 208 - Egyptian religion, which consecrated these marriages in honour of Isis. As the spirit of religion leads us to attempt whatever is great and difficult, we cannot infer that a thing is natural from its being consecrated by a false religion. The principle which informs us that marriages between fathers and children, between brothers and sisters, are prohibited in order to preserve natural modesty in families will help us to the discovery of those marriages that are forbidden by the law of nature, and...
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Страница 344 - ... because the king's crown is round. I shall not examine here into the king's rights, or whether in this case the reason of the civil or ecclesiastic law ought to submit to that of the law of politics ; I shall only say, that those august rights ought to be defended by grave maxims. Was there ever such a thing known as the real rights of a dignity founded on the figure of that dignity's sign ? Davila...
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Страница 120 - ... cities.^ Thus, with the enjoyment of a small territory and great happiness, it was easy for the number of the citizens to increase to such a degree as to become burdensome. This obliged them incessantly to send out colonies,' and, as the Swiss do now, to let their men out to war. Nothing was neglected that could hinder the too great multiplication of children. They had among them republics, whose constitution was very remarkable. The nations they had subdued were obliged to provide subsistence...
Страница 24 - ... and only defend their liberty to sell themselves by piecemeal to the Turks and Persians, one could never imagine that this country had ever, in the time of the Romans, been full of cities, where commerce convened all the nations of the world. We find no monument of these facts in the country itself; there are no traces of them, except in Pliny1 and Strabo.2 The history of commerce is that of the communication of people.

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