| William Blackstone - 1838 - 910 страници
...LAWS IN GENERAL. LAW, in its most general and comprehensive sense, signifies a rule of action ; and is applied indiscriminately to all kinds of action,...whether animate or inanimate, rational or irrational. Thus we say, the laws of motion, of gravitation, of optics, or mechanics, as well as the laws of nature... | |
| Andrew White Young - 1840 - 348 страници
...Law — Law of Nations. § 19. LAW, in its widest sense, signifies a rule of action, and is applied to all kinds of action, whether animate or inanimate, rational or irrational. According to established principles in nature, all matter tends to decay ; all ponderous bodies determine... | |
| George Combe - 1841 - 464 страници
...observes, that ' Law, in its most general and comprehensive sense, signifies a rule of action; and is applied indiscriminately to all kinds of action,...whether animate or inanimate, rational or irrational. Thus we say, the laws of motion, of gravitation, of optics, or mechanics, as well as the laws of Nature... | |
| George Combe - 1841 - 454 страници
...observes, that ' Law, in its most general and comprehensive sense, signifies a rule of action ; and is applied indiscriminately to all kinds of action,...whether animate or inanimate, rational or irrational. Thus we say, the laws of motion, of gravitation, of optics, or mechanics, as well as the laws of nature... | |
| 1847 - 662 страници
...to Blackstone, " law, in its most general and comprehensive sense, signifies a rule of action ; and is applied indiscriminately to all kinds of action,...whether animate or inanimate, rational or irrational Thus we say, the laws of motion, of gravitation, of optics, or mechanics, as well as the laws of nature... | |
| George Combe - 1845 - 498 страници
...observes, that ' Law, in its most general and comprehensive sense, signifies a rule of action ; and is applied indiscriminately to all kinds of action,...whether animate or inanimate, rational or irrational. Thus we say, the laws of motion, of gravitation, of optics, or mechanics, as well as the laws of nature... | |
| Andrew White Young - 1839 - 384 страници
...Law — Law of Nations. § 19. LAW, in its widest sense, signifies a rule of action, and is applied to all kinds of action, whether animate or inanimate, rational or irrational. According to established principles in nature, all matter tends to decay ; all ponderous bodies determine... | |
| John Craig (F.G.S.) - 1849 - 1148 страници
...loi, Fr. ley, Span.) In its most general and comprehensivo sense, signifies a rule of action ; and is applied indiscriminately to all kinds of action,...whether animate or inanimate, rational or irrational. Thus we say, the law» of motion, of gravitation, of optics, of mechanics, as well as the laws of nature... | |
| George Combe - 1850 - 452 страници
...observes, that ' Law, in its most general and comprehensive sense, signifies a rule of action ; and is applied indiscriminately to all kinds of action,...whether animate or inanimate, rational or irrational. Thus we say, the laws of motion, of gravitation, of optics, or mechanics, as well as the laws of nature... | |
| George Combe - 1853 - 460 страници
...observes, that ' Law, in its most general and comprehensive sense, signifies a rule of action ; and is applied indiscriminately to all kinds of action, whether animate or inanimate, rational or irratwnal. Thus we say, the laws of motion, of gravitation, of opties, or mechanies, as well as the... | |
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