 | American Academy of Arts and Sciences - 1883 - 512 páginas
...questions as the damage caused by hydraulic mining, and even the extent to which volcanic action may be subject to man's control. And lest the consideration...and great are terms of comparison only ; she knows DO trifles, and her laws are as inflexible in dealing with an atom as with a continent or a planet."... | |
 | George Perkins Marsh - 1864 - 592 páginas
...law concerneth not itself with trifles," de minimus non curat lex ; but in the vocabulary of nature, little and great are terms of comparison only ; she...her laws are as inflexible in dealing with an atom as with a continent or a planet.* The human opera* One of the sublimest, and at the same time most... | |
 | George Perkins Marsh - 1874 - 702 páginas
...law concerneth not itself with trifles," de minimis nan curat lei ; but in the vocabulary of nature, little and great are terms of comparison only ; she...her laws are as inflexible in dealing with an atom as with a continent or a planet.* The human operaor modified by cosmical dust or matter in a very attenuated... | |
 | 1883 - 524 páginas
...questions as the damage cansed by hydranlic mining, and even the extent to which volcanic action may lie subject to man's control. And lest the consideration...little agencies repeatedly brought into action, the anthor concludes his work with this eminently philosophical remark. " In the vocabulary of Nature,"... | |
 | American Academy of Arts and Sciences - 1883 - 508 páginas
...questions as the damage caused by hydraulic mining, and even the extent to which volcanic action may lie subject to man's control. And lest the consideration...her laws are as inflexible in dealing with an atom as with a continent or a planet." This last remark is but one of many keen and clever bits of philosophy... | |
 | 1900 - 490 páginas
...lex"—[the law does not concern itself with trifles] "is a legal maxim; but in the vocabulary of Nature, 'little' and 'great' are terms of comparison only....her laws are as inflexible in dealing with an atom as with a continent or a planet. No atom can be disturbed in space, or undergo any change of temperature,... | |
 | Max Oelschlaeger - 1991 - 506 páginas
...law concerneth not itself with trifles," de minimis non curât lex; but in the vocabulary of nature, little and great are terms of comparison only; she...her laws are as inflexible in dealing with an atom as with a continent or a planet. The human operations mentioned [above] . . . , therefore, do not act... | |
 | Robert V. Percival, Dorothy C. Alevizatos - 1997 - 468 páginas
...lex, Marsh notes that, even if law does not concern itself with trifles, "in the vocabulary of nature, little and great are terms of comparison only; she...her laws are as inflexible in dealing with an atom as with a continent or a planet." Thus, although humans may be unable to fully comprehend the range... | |
 | George Perkins Marsh - 2001 - 252 páginas
...law concerneth not itself with trifles," de minimus non curat lex; but in the vocabulary of nature, little and great are terms of comparison only; she...her laws are as inflexible in dealing with an atom as with a continent or a planet. The human operations mentioned in the last few paragraphs, therefore,... | |
 | 1869 - 624 páginas
...minimus non curat lex, but, in the hands of nature, little and great are terms of comparison only. Nature knows no trifles, and her laws are as inflexible in dealing with an atom as with a planet. "We assert, without fear of contradiction, that the drugs recorded in Ilahnemann's... | |
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little and great are terms of comparison only ; she knows no trifles, and her laws are as inflexible in dealing with an atom as with a continent or a planet. 