Vattel
Americannoun
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Even George Washington neglected to return The Law of Nations by Emer de Vattel and a volume of debates from the English Parliament to the elites-only New York Society Library.
From Slate ● Mar. 28, 2016
As much perhaps as anyone else, Carr Vattel Van Anda made the New York Times the grey eminence it has become.
From Time Magazine Archive
He was arraigned for the offense before the Cabinet of Mr. Monroe, and Mr. Adams, the Secretary of State, defended him on the high ground of international law as expounded by Grotius, Vattel, and Puffendorf.
From Perley's Reminiscences, v. 1-2 of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis by Benjamin Perley Poore
To these principles of the law of nations Mr. Genet answers, by calling them 'diplomatic subtleties,' and 'aphorisms of Vattel and others.'
From Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 3 by Thomas Jefferson Randolph
He could turn from Grotius to Dickens, from Vattel to Thackeray.
From The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II by Various
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