[9] Proavia juris civilis.—De Jur. Bell. ac Pac. Proleg. § 16. [Back to text]
[10] Dr. Paley, Princ. of Mor. and Polit. Philos. Pref. pp. xiv. and xv. [Back to text]
[11] Grot. Jur. Bell. et Pac. Proleg. § 40. [Back to text]
[12] I do not mean to impeach the soundness of any part of Puffendorff's reasoning founded on moral entities. It may be explained in a manner consistent with the most just philosophy. He used, as every writer must do, the scientific language of his own time. I only assert that, to those who are unacquainted with ancient systems, his philosophical vocabulary is obsolete and unintelligible. [Back to text]
[13] I cannot prevail on myself to pass over this subject without paying my humble tribute to the memory of Sir W. Jones, who has laboured so successfully in Oriental literature, whose fine genius, pure taste, unwearied industry, unrivalled and almost prodigious variety of acquirements, not to speak of his amiable manners and spotless integrity, must fill every one who cultivates or admires letters with reverence, tinged with a melancholy which the recollection of his recent death is so well adapted to inspire. I hope I shall be pardoned if I add my applause to the genius and learning of Mr. Maurice, who treads in the steps of his illustrious friend, and who has bewailed his death in a strain of genuine and beautiful poetry, not unworthy of happier periods of our English literature. [Back to text]
[14] Especially those chapters of the third book, entitled, Temperamentum circa Captivos, &c. &c. [Back to text]
[15] Natura enim juris explicanda est nobis, eaque ab hominis repetenda naturâ.—Cic. de Leg. lib i. c. 5. [Back to text]
[16] Est autem virtus nihil aliud quam in se perfecta atque ad summum perducta natura.—Cic. de Leg. lib. i. c. 8. [Back to text]
[17] Search's Light of Nature, by Abraham Tucker, esq., vol. i. pref. p. xxxiii. [Back to text]
[18] Bacon, Dign. and Adv. of Learn. book ii. [Back to text]