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Page vi
... that instinct by which man in the depth of his rudeness and ignorance is so powerfully in- fluenced by a longing for better things , and a consciousness of other powers than his own interests and passions . This vi Preface .
... that instinct by which man in the depth of his rudeness and ignorance is so powerfully in- fluenced by a longing for better things , and a consciousness of other powers than his own interests and passions . This vi Preface .
Page vii
other powers than his own interests and passions . This agency was that love of order and of progress inherent in man's ... power nevertheless glorious and salutary , for it gives to humanity and with the hand of man a vigorous impulse ...
other powers than his own interests and passions . This agency was that love of order and of progress inherent in man's ... power nevertheless glorious and salutary , for it gives to humanity and with the hand of man a vigorous impulse ...
Page ix
... power , his love of literature , it is no part of our present work to speak . But of his fame as a codifier of Law we may say something . Doubtless his method of codifying was not in all respects sound . Doubt- less a Corpus Juris , if ...
... power , his love of literature , it is no part of our present work to speak . But of his fame as a codifier of Law we may say something . Doubtless his method of codifying was not in all respects sound . Doubt- less a Corpus Juris , if ...
Page x
... powers of Europe are now living ? But for Justinian's labours where would have been that strong and auspicious ray of intellectual life which Dugald Stewart so eloquently describes as shot through the civilized world across the ...
... powers of Europe are now living ? But for Justinian's labours where would have been that strong and auspicious ray of intellectual life which Dugald Stewart so eloquently describes as shot through the civilized world across the ...
Page xi
... power and his might . Yet , strange reading upon the vanity of human glory , his titles are laughed at , his military fame is despised , his grandeur and magnificence are forgotten , bronze and brass have long ago crumbled into dust ...
... power and his might . Yet , strange reading upon the vanity of human glory , his titles are laughed at , his military fame is despised , his grandeur and magnificence are forgotten , bronze and brass have long ago crumbled into dust ...
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Page 459 - Conubium habent cives Romani cum civibus Romanis ; cum Latinis autem et peregrinis ita, si concessum sit ; cum servis nullum est conubium.
Page 86 - Et post multas Sabinianorum et Proculianorum ambiguitates placuit media sententia existimantium, si ea species ad materiam reduci possit, eum videri dominum esse, qui materiae dominus fuerat, si non possit reduci, eum potius intellegi dominum qui fecerit: ut ecce vas conflatum potest ad rudem massam...