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To be copied Had our author attended to this, he might otherwise have merit. Even
though Montesquieu falls into the same
perhaps have told us, in the words of Montes error as our Author in confounding compacts
that, however; the mistakes of montesquieu <add>and principles with Laws,: still his mistakes <add>there is a difference</add> are the mistakes of a man of
Genius: whilst those of our Author speak only therewith
copyist. Thus Montesquieu has said:</add> "Le droit des gens est naturellement fondé <note>lèsprit des loix liv 1. C. III</note>
"sur ce principes que les diverses nations doivent
<foreign>se faire dans la paix le plus de bien, et
"<foreign>dans la guerre le moins de mal qu'il est
"<foreign>possible, sans nuire á leurs veritables interêts.
"— <foreign>L'objet de la guerre, c'est la victoire: celui
"<foreign>do la victoire, la conquete; celui de la conquête,
"<foreign>la conservation, De ce principe, et du precedents
"<foreign>doivent deriver toutes les loix qui forment les
"<foreign>droit des gens.
though these are not Laws. They are principles conformable to <add>— rules fairly deducible from
the great principle of imprest upon us by nature.
One then might have added, that however essentiel

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Category	collectanea	Number of Pages	4
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