General, but it did not lead them to the commission of an act of injustice ; for, when a people from good reasons take up arms against an oppressor, it is but an act of justice and generosity to assist brave men in the defence of their liberties. Annual Register - Sivu 201muokkaaja - 1861Koko teos - Tietoja tästä kirjasta
| Sir Henry Drummond Wolff - 1908 - 442 sivua
...interests. Lord John Russell then quoted the maxim of Vattel, "That when a people from good reasons take up arms against an oppressor, it is but an act...assist brave men in the defence of their liberties.'" " Upon this grave matter," said the despatch, " Her Majesty's Government hold that the people in question... | |
| John Ruskin - 1909 - 830 sivua
...his arms to the Roman and Neapolitan States, and quoting Vattel : " When a people for good reasons take up arms against an oppressor, it is but an act of justice to yourselves to assist brave men in the defence of their liberties." " HM Government," he said, "turn... | |
| William Roscoe Thayer - 1911 - 594 sivua
...Vattel, who justified the revolution of 1688, on the ground that " when a people from good reasons take up arms against an oppressor, it is but an act...justice and generosity to assist brave men in the defense of their liberties." So Russell argued that if it was right for William of Orange to aid Englishmen... | |
| Robert Holmes Edleston - 1911 - 382 sivua
...justified in furnishing the assistance of his arms to the peoples of the Roman and Neapolitan States ? " Did the people of Naples and of the Roman States take up arms against their Government for good reasons? Upon this grave matter Her Majesty's Government hold that the people in... | |
| Walter Lyon Blease - 1913 - 388 sivua
...he supported the new Italian system. He quoted Vattel with point : "When a people from good reasons take up arms against an oppressor, it is but an act...assist brave men in the defence of their liberties." The question was whether the Italian rising had taken place for good reasons. " Upon this grave matter... | |
| 1883 - 538 sivua
...the commission of an act of injustice; for when a people from good reasons takes up arms against its oppressor, it is but an act of justice and generosity to assist brave men in the defense of their liberties.' " This Lord John Russel indorses ; and yet it must be remembered that... | |
| Hersch Lauterpacht - 1977 - 648 sivua
...Prince of Orange justified their attitude with equal emphasis : ' When a people from good reasons takes up arms against an oppressor, it is but an act of...generosity, to assist brave men in the defence of their liberties'.2 Grotius himself regarded it as a duty of a foreign nation not to stand aloof when 'a tyrant... | |
| Colin Bingham - 1982 - 376 sivua
...Republic, but in 1968, after twenty years of Communist rule, it came first. When a people for good reasons take up arms against an oppressor, it is but an act...assist brave men in the defence of their liberties. EMMANUEL DE VATTEL, 1758 refused the command of itself, it will assert its personality by attempting... | |
| 1897 - 988 sivua
...our Foreign Minister, avowedly based his position on Vattel : — " When a people, from good reasons, take up arms against an oppressor, it is but an act of justice and generosity to assist brave men in defence of their liberties " — and gave Garibaldi's enterprise all the encouragement in his power... | |
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