THE
LAW OF NATIONS,
OR,
PRINCIPLES
OF THE
LAW OF NATURE,
Applied to the Conduct and Affairs
OF NATIONS AND SOVEREIGNS.
FROM THE FRENCH OF MONSIEUR DE VATTEL.
Nihil est enim illi principi Deo qui omnem hunc mundum regit, quod
quidem in terris fiat, acceptius, quam concilia coetusque hominum jure
sociati, quae civitates, appellantur.1 Cicero, Som. Scip.2
A NEW EDITION
Revised, corrected, and enriched with many valuable Notes never
before translated into English.
LONDON:
PRINTED FOR G.G. AND J. ROBINSON, PATERNOSTER-ROW.
1797.
1. “For to the Supreme God who governs this whole universe nothing is more
pleasing than those companies and unions of men that are called cities.”
2. Somnium Scipionis (Scipio’s Dream) in Cicero, De republica.
