 For there are in nature certain fountains of justice, whence all civil laws are derived but as streams ; and, like as waters do take tinctures and tastes from the soils through which they run, so do civil laws vary according to the regions and governments...  Blackwood's Magazine - Side 2201842Fuld visning - Om denne bog
 | 1833 - 370 sider
...streams ; and like as waters do tajte tinctures and tastes from the soils through which they run, so do civil laws vary according to the regions and governments...planted, though they proceed from the same fountains. — UACOX. No schism in the body politic can be more fatal than that which alienates the hands from... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1825 - 538 sider
...streams: and like as waters do take tinctures and tastes from the soils through which they run, so do civil laws vary according to the regions and governments...planted, though, they proceed from the same fountains. Again, the wisdom of a lawmaker consisteth not only in a platform of justice, but in the application... | |
 | 1847 - 608 sider
...streams ; and like as waters do take tinctures and tastes from the soils through which they run, во do civil laws vary according to the regions and governments...planted, though they proceed from the same fountains." And Montesquieu, — who of all writers had most profoundly studied the causes which influence national... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1838 - 898 sider
...streams : and like as waters do take tinctures and tastes from the soils through which they run, so do civil laws vary according to the regions and governments...planted, though they proceed from the same fountains. Again, the wisdom of a law-maker consisteth not only in a platform of justice, but in the application... | |
 | George Ensor - 1838 - 638 sider
...streams ; and like as waters do take tinctures and tastes from the soils through which they run, so do civil laws vary according to the regions and governments...planted, though they proceed from the same fountains."* — Bacon's Dig. and Adv. of Learn. Works, vol. ip 101. * I have not been deterred by some petty incongruity... | |
 | John L. Carey - 1838 - 126 sider
...Bacon's simile, 'like as waters do take tinctures and tastes from the soils through which they run, so do civil laws vary according to the regions and governments...they are planted; though they proceed from the same fountain.' In view of this truth how were it possible that two distinct nations, each possessing its... | |
 | John L. Carey - 1838 - 126 sider
...Bacon's simile, 'like as waters do take tinctures and tastes from the soils through which they run, so do civil laws vary according to the regions and governments where they are planted j though they proceed from the same fountain.' In view of this truth how were it possible that two... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1840 - 244 sider
...: and like as waters do take j tinctures and tastes from the soils through , which they run, so do civil laws vary according to the regions and governments where they are planted, though they proceed from i the same fountains. Again, the wisdom of a lawmaker consisteth not only in a platform of justice,... | |
 | 1842 - 1552 sider
...solely upon immemorial usage for their support and regulation. That branch of law, therefore, so far from being, as Mr Lewis asserts, subordinate and indirect,...observations may apply to the Roman law, to which Mr Lewis bas alluded. Mr Lewis is altogether mistaken in the peculiar and fantastical meaning be would affix... | |
 | Sir James Mackintosh - 1846 - 614 sider
...streams ; and like as waters do take tinctures and tastes from the soils through which they run, so do civil laws vary according to the regions and governments...planted, though they proceed from the same fountains."* On the great questions of morality, of politics, and of municipal law, it is the object of this science... | |
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