 | 1821 - عدد الصفحات: 608
...an arduous, but indispensable task. In the space of ten centuries, an infinite variety of laws and legal opinions had filled many thousand 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... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1828 - عدد الصفحات: 598
...destitute of order. ' In the space of ten centuries,' says Gibbon, ' the infinite variety of laws and legal opinions had filled many thousand volumes, which...reduced to the exercise of their illiterate discretion.' These are the evils which the statutory digests of Justinian were originally designed to remove. A... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1828 - عدد الصفحات: 598
...destitute of order. ' In the space of ten centuries,' says Gibbon, ' the infinite variety of laws and legal opinions had filled many thousand volumes, which...reduced to the exercise of their illiterate discretion.' These are the evils which the statutory digests of Justinian were originally designed to remove. A... | |
 | Louis Raymond Véricour - 1850 - عدد الصفحات: 524
...Antoniny could not have been preserved. In the space of ten centuries, the infinite variety of laws and legal opinions had filled many thousand volumes which...fortune could purchase, and no capacity could digest. Justinian had the glory of achieving the Reformation of the Roman law, assisted by sages and legislators;... | |
 | Caroline Frances Cornwallis - 1852 - عدد الصفحات: 312
...administration of justice was almost impossible: "in the space of ten centuries the infinite variety of laws and legal opinions had filled many thousand volumes, which...the Greek provinces were ignorant of the language which disposed of their lives and properties,"* and Justinianus saw the necessity of putting the legal... | |
 | New York (State). Commissioners of the Code - 1858 - عدد الصفحات: 130
...the period of which the Roman historian complained so justly, when "the infinite variety of laws and legal opinions had filled many thousand volumes, which...fortune could purchase, and no capacity could digest." How far, in the preparation of a Code, changes should be recommended, is a question of much delicacy.... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1859 - عدد الصفحات: 750
...state at which the Roman historian complained when he said, ' tliat the infinite variety of laws and legal opinions had filled many thousand volumes which no fortune could purchase, and no capacity digest.' Yet we doubt whether the remedy is a code. The Commissioners of New York, who are now entrusted... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1859 - عدد الصفحات: 584
...state at which the Roman historian complained when he said, ' that the infinite variety of laws and legal opinions had filled many thousand volumes which no fortune could purchase, and no capacity digest.' Vet we doubt whether the remedy is a code. The Commissioners of JVew York, who are now entrusted... | |
 | 1859 - عدد الصفحات: 578
...state at which the Roman historian complained when he said, ' that the infmite variety of laws and legal opinions had filled many thousand volumes which no fortune could purchase, and no capacity digest.' \et we doubt whether the remedy is a code. The Commissioners of New York, who are now entrusted... | |
 | 1863 - عدد الصفحات: 858
...in his 44th chapter, tells us that " in the space of ten centuries the infinite variety of laws and legal opinions had filled many thousand volumes, which...reduced to the exercise of their illiterate discretion." We in England are not in so bad a case as this, for, although by no figure of speech could the term... | |
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In the space of ten centuries the infinite variety of laws and legal opinions had filled many thousand volumes, which no -fortune could purchase and no capacity could digest. Books could not easily be found ; and the judges, poor .in the midst of riches,... 
