The Works of Sir William Jones, Volumen7J. Stockdale and J. Walker, 1807 |
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... learned , and good ones ge- nerally discontinued ; where a debtor , perhaps faultlefs , is with - holden from his occupations and from his family , whilft he remains miferable himself , and useless to the publick . " I cannot help ...
... learned , and good ones ge- nerally discontinued ; where a debtor , perhaps faultlefs , is with - holden from his occupations and from his family , whilft he remains miferable himself , and useless to the publick . " I cannot help ...
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... learned lawyers of his reli- gion , with whom I have conversed in different parts of India , have affured me with one voice , that an oath by a Musliman is not held binding on his confcience , unless it be taken in the express name of ...
... learned lawyers of his reli- gion , with whom I have conversed in different parts of India , have affured me with one voice , that an oath by a Musliman is not held binding on his confcience , unless it be taken in the express name of ...
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... learned Bráb- man at Nediya affured me we were empowered to do , without fhocking their prejudices ) to speak the whole truth and nothing but the truth : but fuch , after all , is the corrupt ftate even of their erroneous religion ...
... learned Bráb- man at Nediya affured me we were empowered to do , without fhocking their prejudices ) to speak the whole truth and nothing but the truth : but fuch , after all , is the corrupt ftate even of their erroneous religion ...
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... lately told the fenior judge , who agrees with me , rather with the light of the rifing , than with that of the meridian , fun ; and the learned argument of the judge , who differs from us , has rendered CHARGE TO THE GRAND JURY . 43.
... lately told the fenior judge , who agrees with me , rather with the light of the rifing , than with that of the meridian , fun ; and the learned argument of the judge , who differs from us , has rendered CHARGE TO THE GRAND JURY . 43.
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... learned and excellent judge , whom I always name with honour and cite with confidence . The pro- grefs of arbitrary power is commonly flow at first , and imperceptible to all but the vigilant , like the creeping of a tiger at night in a ...
... learned and excellent judge , whom I always name with honour and cite with confidence . The pro- grefs of arbitrary power is commonly flow at first , and imperceptible to all but the vigilant , like the creeping of a tiger at night in a ...
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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.