| Edward Gibbon - 1788 - 358 páginas
...of the Roman jurifprudence was an byj^ftLaT, arduous but indifpenfable talk. In the fpace of AD vlt ten centuries, the infinite variety of laws and / legal opinions had filled many thoufand volumes, which no fortune could purchafe and no capacity could digeft. Books could not eafily... | |
| 1821 - 608 páginas
...of the Roman Jurisprudence was an arduous, but indispensable task. In the space of ten centuries, an infinite variety of laws and legal opinions had filled...volumes, which no fortune could purchase, and no capacity digest. The spirit of Tribtwius (whose genius, observes Gibbon, like that of Bacon, embraced as his... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1805 - 506 páginas
...centuries, the infinite vaAD 1^527 rlcty of laws anll legal opinions had filled many thousand In:. volumes, which no fortune could purchase and no capacity...reduced to the exercise of their illiterate discretion. The subjects of the Greek provinces were ignorant of the language that disposed of their lives and... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1806 - 410 páginas
...ation 01 the Roman jurisprudence was an arduous but indispensable task. In the space of ten centuriea, the infinite variety of laws and legal opinions had filled many thousand volumes, which no fortune eould purchase and no capacity could digest. Boots could not easily be found ; and the judges, poor... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1811 - 416 páginas
...variety of lawsand legal opinions AD S?T, had filled many thousand volumes, which no for- &c' tune could purchase and no capacity could digest. Books...reduced to the exercise of their illiterate discretion. The subjects of the Greek provinces were ignorant of the language that disposed of their lives and... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1816 - 508 páginas
...Justinian, infinite variety of laws and legal opinions had filled tj. ' 27'many thousand volumes, whir.li no fortune could purchase and no capacity could digest. Books could not easily be found ; aud the judges, poor in the midst of riches, were reduced to the exercise of their illiterate discretion.... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1820 - 398 páginas
...centuries, the mfinite variety of laws and AM 527, legal opinions had filled many thousand vo-&c' lumes, which no fortune could purchase,, and no capacity...reduced to the exercise of their illiterate discretion. The subjects of the Greek provinces were ignorant of the language that disposed of their lives and... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1826 - 462 páginas
...indispensable task. 'IM/A'D'.' In the space of ten centuries, the infinite variety of laws ami «¡т, ¿с. legal opinions had filled many thousand volumes, which...reduced to the exercise of their illiterate discretion. The subjects of the Greek provinces were ignorant of the language that disposed of their lives and... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1826 - 546 páginas
...space often centuries, the ^"^ " D infinite variety of laws and legal opinions had filled 527,'&c. many thousand volumes, which no fortune could purchase...reduced to the exercise of their illiterate discretion. The subjects of the Greek provinces were ignorant of the language that disposed of their lives and... | |
| Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1828 - 598 páginas
...was full of obscurity and wholly destitute of order. ' In the space of ten centuries,' says Gibbon, ' the infinite variety of laws and legal opinions had...reduced to the exercise of their illiterate discretion.' These are the evils which the statutory digests of Justinian were originally designed to remove. A... | |
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