The complete works of M. de Montesquieu : translated from the French.

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Montesquieu, Charles de Secondat, baron de, 1689-1755 [Browse]
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Language
English
Published/​Created
London : Printed for T. Evans, in the Strand and W. Davis, in Piccadilly, 1777.
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1 online resource (4 volumes, plate)

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Contents
  • volume I. The spirit of laws. book I. Of laws in general
  • book II. Of laws directly derived from the nature of government
  • book III. Of the principles of the three kinds of government
  • book IV. That the laws of education ought to be relative to the principles of government
  • book V. That the laws, given by the legislator, ought to be relative to the principle of government
  • book VI. Consequences of the principles of different governments with respect to the simplicity of civil and criminal laws, the form of judgements, and the inflicting of punishments
  • book VII. Consequences of the different principles of the three governments, with respect to sumptuary laws, luxury, and the condition of women
  • book VIII. Of the corruption of the principles of the three governments
  • book IX. Of laws, in the relation they bear to a defensive force
  • book X. Of laws, in the relation they bear to offensive force
  • book XI. Of the laws which establish political liberty, with regard to the constitution
  • book XII. Of the laws that form political liberty, as relative to the subject
  • book XIII. Of the relation which the levying of taxes and the greatness of the public revenues have to liberty
  • book XIV. Of laws as relative to the nature of the climate
  • book XV. In what manner the laws of civil slavery are relative to the nature of the climate
  • book XVI. How the laws of domestic slavery have a relation to the nature of the climate
  • book XVII. How the laws of political servitude have a relation to the nature of the climate
  • book XVIII. Of laws in the relation they bear to the nature of the soil
  • book XIX. Of laws, in relation to the principles which form the general spirit, the morals, and customs, of a nation.
  • volume II. book XX. Of laws in relation to commerce, considered in its nature and distinctions
  • book XXI. Of laws relative to commerce, considered in the revolutions it has met with in the world
  • book XXII. Of laws in relation to the use of money
  • book XXIII. Of laws in the relation they bear to the number of inhabitants
  • book XXIV. Of laws as relative to religion, considered in itself, and in its doctrines
  • book XXV. Of laws as relative to the establishment of religion and its external polity
  • book XXVI. Of laws, as relative to the order of things on which they determine
  • book XXVII. Of the origin and revolutions of the Roman laws on successions
  • book XXVIII. Of the origin and revolutions of the civil laws among the French
  • book XXIX. Of the manner of composing laws
  • book XXX. Theory of the feudal laws among the Franks, in the relation they bear to the establishment of the monarchy
  • book XXXI. Theory of the feudal laws among the Franks, in the relation they bear to the revolutions of their monarchy.
  • volume III. Considerations on the causes of the grandeur and declension of the Roman Empire
  • A dialogue between Sylla and Eucrates
  • Persian letters / by M. de Montesquieu.
  • volume IV. Familiar letters / by President de Montesquieu - Miscellaneous pieces of M. de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu.
References
English Short Title Catalog, T89067
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Great Britain England London.
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  • 9781570850905 ((web))
  • 1570850909
OCLC
642722742
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