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
Such are some of the arguments that Vattel puts forth with all the strength of reason and eloquence, against all unnecessary cruelty, and all mean and perfidious warfare.
From The Laws Of War, Affecting Commerce And Shipping by Thomson, H. Byerley
They will be found in the authoritative texts of Public Law,—in the works of Grotius, Vattel, and Wheaton.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 72, October, 1863 by Various
Some seem to identify it with treaties; others with "Vattel."
From Letters to "The Times" upon War and Neutrality (1881-1920) by Holland, Thomas Erskine, Sir
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