"The matter of jurisprudence is positive law: law, simply and strictly so called : or law set by political superiors t…"

"Since the term command comprises the term law the first is the simpler as well as the larger of the two. But simple a…"

"A command is distinguished from other significations of desire, not by the style in which the desire is signified, bu…"

"Every positive law, or every law simply and strictly so called, is set, directly or circuitously, by a sovereign pers…"

"To the ignorant and bawling fanatics who stun you with their pother about liberty, political or civil liberty seems t…"

"The existence of a law is one thing, its merits or demerits is are another thing. Whether a law be, is one inquiry; w…"

"The more I thought about it, the more obsessed I became with the idea of a swimming journey. I started to dream ever …"

"From water level, I observed the mating joined in flight like refuelling aircraft, and the random progress of the clo…"

"It is through trees that we see and hear the wind: woodland people can tell the species of a tree from the sound it m…"

"Waterlog (1999), Roger's now-classic account of swimming through Britain, published twenty years ago this year, opens…"