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... Of the Advancement of Learning - Page 204by Francis Bacon - 1915 - 244 pagesFull view - About this book
| Sir James Mackintosh - 1799 - 84 pages
...ftreams; and like as waters do take tincte tures and taftes from the foils through which " they run, fo do civil laws vary according to " the regions and...where they are " planted, though they proceed from the fame " fountains*." Bacon's Dig. and Adv. of Learn.— Works, vol. ip 101. On the great queftions of... | |
| 1842 - 850 pages
...streams ; and like as waters do take tinctures and tastes from the soils through which they run, so the civil laws vary according to the regions and governments...planted, though they proceed from the same fountains." The same observations may apply to the Roman law, to which Mr Lewis has alluded. Mr Lewis is altogether... | |
| Samuel Phelps - 1818 - 634 pages
...but as streams, or waters, take their tinctures and tastes from the soils through which they run, so civil laws vary according to the regions and governments where they are established. Again, the wisdom of a lawmaker does not consist in the form or show of justice, but in... | |
| Thomas Hancock - 1824 - 578 pages
...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...planted, though they proceed from the same fountains."* Causabon, who is styled by Lord Shaftesbury, " one of the greatest and most learned of moderns," expresses... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1825 - 432 pages
...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...the same fountains. Again, the wisdom of a lawmaker cpnsisteth not only in a platform of justice, but in the application thereof; taking into consideration... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1825 - 524 pages
...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...planted, though, they proceed from the same fountains. 5. Of the wisdom of a law maker .... 296 6. Bacon intends a work in aphorisms upon universal justice.*... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1826 - 626 pages
...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...consisteth not only in a platform of justice, but in ihe application thereof; taking into consideration, by what means laws may be made certain, and what... | |
| Sir James Mackintosh - 1828 - 108 pages
...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...planted, though they proceed from the same fountains."* — Bacon's Dig. and Adv. of Learn. Works, vol. ip 101. On the great questions of morality, of politics,... | |
| 1833 - 370 pages
...whence all civil laws are derived, but as streams ; and like as waters do tajte tinctures and tastes from the soils through which they run, so do civil...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 - 1834 - 376 pages
...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...platform of justice, but in the application thereof j taking into consideration, by what means laws may be made certain, and what are the causes and remedies... | |
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