 Europe, too closely pent up at home, finding land of which the savages stood in no particular need, and of which they made no actual and constant use, were lawfully entitled to take possession of it, and settle it with colonies.  Theologiae moralis: Tractatus I-VIII - Page 237by Francis Patrick Kenrick - 1841Full view - About this book
 | 1893 - 626 pages
...that the unsettled habitations of the Indians in the immense regions of America "can not be accounted a true and legal possession ; and the people of Europe, too closely pent up at home, finding land of which the savages stood in no particular need, and of which they made no actual... | |
 | Thomas Benton Edgington - 1904 - 368 pages
...able to settle and cultivate. Their unsettled habitation in those immense regions cannot be accounted a true and legal possession ; and the people of Europe, too closely pent up at home, finding land of which the savages stood in no particular need, and of which they made no actual... | |
 | George Washington Crichfield - 1908 - 698 pages
...able to settle and cultivate. Their unsettled habitation in those immense regions cannot be accounted a true and legal possession; and the people of Europe, too closely pent up at home, finding land of which the savages stood in no particular need and of which they made no actual... | |
 | George Washington Crichfield - 1908 - 704 pages
...able to settle and cultivate. Their unsettled habitation in those immense regions cannot be accounted a true and legal possession; and the people of Europe, too closely pent up at home, finding land of which the savages stood in no particular need and of which they made no actual... | |
 | 1913 - 578 pages
...able to settle and cultivate. Their unsettled habitation in those immense regions cannot be accounted a true and legal possession ; and the people of Europe, too closely pent up at home, finding land of which the savages stood in no particular need, and of which they made no actual... | |
 | Peter S. Schmalz - 1991 - 388 pages
...Assembly of Upper Canada: 'The unsettled habitation in those immense regions of Canada cannot be accounted a true and legal possession, and the people of Europe, too closely pent up at home, finding land of which the savage had no particular need, and of which they made no actual... | |
 | Francis Paul Prucha - 1995 - 1402 pages
...themselves more land than they have occasion for, and which they are unable to settle and cultivate. Their removing their habitations through these immense...lawfully possess it, and establish colonies there. We have already said, that the earth belongs to the human race in general, and was designed to furnish... | |
 | Norman G. Finkelstein - 2003 - 332 pages
...are unable to settle and cultivate. Their removing their habitations through these immense nations cannot be taken for a true and legal possession; and...lawfully possess it and establish colonies there. We have already said that the earth belongs to the human race in general, and was destined to furnish... | |
 | Henry Reynolds - 1996 - 244 pages
...found none but erratic nations, incapable, by the smallness of their numbers to people the whole? . . . Their removing their habitations through these immense...use, may lawfully possess it, and establish colonies there.47 But in establishing a right to colonisation Vattel does not provide the support for the British... | |
 | Henry Reynolds - 1996 - 244 pages
...settle and cultivate. Their removing their habitations through these immense regions cannot be accounted true and legal possession; and the people of Europe, too closely pent up at home, finding land of which savages stood in no particular need, and of which they made no actual... | |
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