 | Sir James Mackintosh - International law - 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 governments where they are " planted, though they proceed from the fame " fountains*." Bacon's Dig. and Adv. of Learn.— Works, vol. ip... | |
 | England - 1842 - 850 pages
...of legislation which Lord Bacon has described with such magnificence : — " For there are in nature certain fountains of justice whence all civil laws...and tastes from the soils through which they run, so the civil laws vary according to the regions and governments where they are planted, though they proceed... | |
 | Samuel Phelps - Great Britain - 1818 - 634 pages
...; for the wisdom of a law-maker is one thing, and that of a lawyer is another. There are in nature certain fountains of justice, whence all civil laws are derived; but as streams, or waters, take their tinctures and tastes from the soils through which they run, so civil laws vary... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 648 pages
...be law; for the wisdom of a law -maker is one, and of a lawyer is another. For there are in nature certain fountains of justice, whence all civil laws...the regions and governments where they are planted, though they proceed from the same fountains. Again, the wisdom of a law-maker consisteth not only in... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1824 - 642 pages
...be Jaw ; for the wisdom of a law-maker is one, and of a lawyer is another. For there are in nature certain fountains of justice, whence all civil laws...the regions and governments where they are planted, though they proceed from the same fountains. Again, the wisdom of a law-maker consisteth not only in... | |
 | Thomas Hancock - Instinct - 1824 - 578 pages
...but lie plainly alludes to an original not a factitious source of law. " For there D are in nature certain fountains of Justice, whence all civil laws...the regions and governments where they are planted, though they proceed from the same fountains."* Causabon, who is styled by Lord Shaftesbury, " one of... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Logic - 1825 - 432 pages
...to be law : for the wisdom of a lawmaker is one, and of a lawyer is another. For there are in nature certain fountains of justice, whence all civil laws...the regions and governments where they are planted, though they proceed 'from the same fountains. Again, the wisdom of a lawmaker cpnsisteth not only in... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 524 pages
...to be law : for the wisdom of a lawmaker is one, and of a lawyer is another. For there are in nature certain fountains of justice, whence all civil laws...the regions and governments where they are planted, though, they proceed from the same fountains. Again, the wisdom of a lawmaker consisteth not only in... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1834 - 784 pages
...be law ; for the wisdom of a law-maker is one, and of a lawyer is another. For there are in nature certain fountains of justice, whence all civil laws...the regions and governments where they are planted, though they proceed from the same fountains. Again, the wisdom of a law-maker consisteth not only in... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1826 - 626 pages
...be law ; for the wisdom of a law-maker is one, and of a lawyer is another. For there are in nature certain fountains of justice, whence all civil laws...the regions and governments where they are planted, though they proceed from the same fountains. Again, the wisdom of a law-maker consisteth not only in... | |
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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... 
