The Works of Sir William Jones, Volumen7J. Stockdale and J. Walker, 1807 |
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... hands of men will fometimes be abused , and ought al- ways , if possible , to be restrained ; but the restric- tions of general laws imply no particular blame . How many precautions have from time to time been used to render judges and ...
... hands of men will fometimes be abused , and ought al- ways , if possible , to be restrained ; but the restric- tions of general laws imply no particular blame . How many precautions have from time to time been used to render judges and ...
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... hand this terrible catalogue of griev- ous offences , which must come under your confi- deration , I have ample materials for my addrefs to you , without enlarging on such cases , as may probably be brought before you , but have not yet ...
... hand this terrible catalogue of griev- ous offences , which must come under your confi- deration , I have ample materials for my addrefs to you , without enlarging on such cases , as may probably be brought before you , but have not yet ...
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... hands of Summary conviction , which the legislature has not yet given , and which it al- ways gives with reluctance ; and I perfuade my- felf , that the gentlemen of this fettlement are too publick - fpirited to decline the trouble ...
... hands of Summary conviction , which the legislature has not yet given , and which it al- ways gives with reluctance ; and I perfuade my- felf , that the gentlemen of this fettlement are too publick - fpirited to decline the trouble ...
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... hand so long a catalogue of terrible offences , which are believed to have been committed within the last fix months by perfons under our jurifdiction ; of- fences , which comprize nearly all , that can be committed against the publick ...
... hand so long a catalogue of terrible offences , which are believed to have been committed within the last fix months by perfons under our jurifdiction ; of- fences , which comprize nearly all , that can be committed against the publick ...
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... hand of a thief or a forger ; while the Mohammedan punish- ments , inflicted at this day in the Afiatick domi- nions of Britain , are not lefs horrid , but have lefs appearance of reafon . Happily we can fee no fuch horrors in Calcutta ...
... hand of a thief or a forger ; while the Mohammedan punish- ments , inflicted at this day in the Afiatick domi- nions of Britain , are not lefs horrid , but have lefs appearance of reafon . Happily we can fee no fuch horrors in Calcutta ...
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Página 96 - From THAT WHICH is, the first cause, not the object of sense, existing everywhere in substance, not existing to our perception, without beginning or end, was produced the divine male, famed in all worlds under the appellation of BRAHMA'.
Página 79 - ... system of duties, religious and civil, and of law in all its branches, which the Hindus firmly believe to have been promulged in the beginning of time by MENU, son or grandson of BRAHMA', or, in plain language, the first of created beings, and not the oldest only, but the holiest, of legislators...
Página 116 - ... 14. But, when there are two sacred texts, apparently inconsistent, both are held to be law ; for both are pronounced by the wise to be valid and reconcilable ; 15. Thus in the Veda are these texts : " let the sacrifice be when the sun has arisen...
Página 91 - The work, now presented to the European world, contains abundance of curious matter extremely interesting both to speculative lawyers and antiquaries, with many beauties, which need not be pointed out, and with many blemishes, which cannot be justified or palliated. It is a system of despotism and priestcraft, both indeed limited by law, but artfully conspiring to give mutual support...
Página 296 - A king, even though a child, must not be treated lightly, from an idea that he is a mere mortal: no, he is a powerful divinity, who appears in a human shape.
Página 84 - Apis; and, though we should be constantly on our guard against the delusion of etymological conjecture, yet we cannot but admit that MINOS and MNEUES, or Mneuis, have only Greek terminations, but that the crude noun is composed of the same radical letters both in Greek and in Sanscrit. ' That APIS and MNEUIS, ' says the Analyst of ancient Mythology, ' were both representations of some per...
Página 128 - The act of repeating his Holy Name is ten times better than the appointed sacrifice ; an hundred times better when it is heard by no man ; and a thousand times better when it is purely mental : 86.
Página 111 - The Brahman who studies this book, having performed sacred rites, is perpetually free from offence in thought, in word and in deed. " He confers purity on his living family, on his ancestors, and on his descendants as far as the seventh person, and he alone deserves to possess this whole earth.
Página 393 - SHOULD a wife, proud of her family and the great qualities of her kinsmen, actually violate the duty, which she owes to her lord, let the king condemn her to be devoured by dogs in a place much frequented ; 372.