Montesquieu

1 book on BookJumpr, mentioned 5 times in other books.

Books by Montesquieu

Napoleon: A Life on The Spirit of the Laws: “including Captain Cook's three-volume Voyages, Montesquieu's The Spirit of the Laws, Goethe's Sorrows of Young Werther and books by Livy, Thucydides, Plutarch, Tacitus and, of course, Julius Caesar.”
Emile on The Spirit of the Laws: “The necessary relations between character and government have been so clearly pointed out in the book of L'Esprit des Lois, that one cannot do better than have recourse to that work for the study of those relations.”
The Social Contract on The Spirit of the Laws: “The author of _The Spirit of the Laws_ has shown with many examples by what art the legislator directs the constitution towards each of these objects.”
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire on The Spirit of the Laws: “Esprit des Loix, l. xxx. c. 3. The brilliant imagination of Montesquieu is corrected, however, by the dry, cold reason of the Abbe de Mably.”
Sartor Resartus on The Spirit of the Laws: “"As Montesquieu wrote a Spirit of Laws," observes our Professor, "so could I write a Spirit of Clothes; thus, with an Esprit des Lois, properly an Esprit de Coutumes”