The most excellent Hugo Grotius, his three books treating of the rights of war & peace in the first is handled, whether any war be just : in the second is shewed, the causes of war, both just and unjust : in the third is declared, what in war is lawful, that is, unpunishable : with the annotations digested into the body of every chapter / translated into English by William Evats ...

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Title: The most excellent Hugo Grotius, his three books treating of the rights of war & peace in the first is handled, whether any war be just : in the second is shewed, the causes of war, both just and unjust : in the third is declared, what in war is lawful, that is, unpunishable : with the annotations digested into the body of every chapter / translated into English by William Evats ...
Author: Grotius, Hugo, 1583-1645.
Publication: London :: Printed by M.W. for Thomas Basset ... and Ralph Smith ...,; 1682.
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XXIII. I mean such as are permitted by the Right of nature, not out of grace and favour.

But this is to be understood of such Acts only, as are permitted, as it were, by ver∣tue of that liberty which nature gives, being restrained or taken away by no Law: but not of such as are indulged to any Nation as acts of Grace, dispensing with the Laws; For to deny a Courtesie is no Injury.