 The vain titles of the victories of Justinian are crumbled into dust ; but the name of the legislator is inscribed on a fair and everlasting monument. Under his reign, and by his care, the civil jurisprudence was digested in the immortal works of the...  The Calcutta Review Volume XLIII - Page 298by R.C. Lepage - 1866Full view - About this book
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1805 - 506 pages
...and Punishments. CHAP, XLIV. The Civil or Roman law. THE vain titles of the victories of Justinian are crumbled into dust : but the name of the legislator is inscribed on a fair and everlasting monument. Under his reign, and by his care, the civil jurisprudence was digested in the immortal works of the... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1820 - 398 pages
...injuries and actions — IV. Crimes and punishments. THE vain titles of the victories of Justinian THAP. are crumbled into dust: but the name of the legislator is inscribed on a fair and everlasting The civil monument. Under his reign, and by his care, I°arw. °" ""'" the civil jurisprudence was... | |
 | North American review and miscellaneous journal - 1826 - 558 pages
...but is supported by facts. ' The vain titles of the victories of Justinian,' says the historian, ' are crumbled into dust ; but the name of the legislator is inscribed on a fair and everlasting monument. Under his reign, and by his care, the civil jurisprudence was digested in the immortal works of the... | |
 | Jared Sparks, James Russell Lowell, Edward Everett, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1826 - 538 pages
...but is supported by facts. ' The vain titles of the victories of Justinian,' says the historian, ' are crumbled into dust ; but the name of the legislator is inscribed on a fair and everlasting monument. Under his reign, and by his care, the civil jurisprudence was digested in the immortal works of the... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1826 - 462 pages
...Actions — IV. Crimes and Punishments. THE vain titles of the victories of Justinian are crumbled CHAP. into dust : but the name of the legislator is inscribed on a fair XLIV. and everlasting monument. Under his reign, and by his care, the civil jurisprudence was digested... | |
 | Alfred Addis - Prophecy - 1830 - 602 pages
...of the civil law. " The vain titles," says Gibbon, vm. xliv. nu 1, " of the victories of Justinian are crumbled into dust : but the name of the legislator is inscribed on a fair and everlasting monument. Under his reign, and by his care, the civil jurisprudence was digested in the immortal works. of the... | |
 | Joseph Story - Constitutional law - 1835 - 558 pages
...but is supported by facts. " The vain titles of the victories of Justinian," says the historian, " are crumbled into dust ; but the name of the legislator is inscribed on a fair and everlasting monument. Under his reign, and by his care, the civil jurisprudence was digested in the immortal works of the... | |
 | John George Cochrane - 1837 - 582 pages
...Emperor Napoleon, of whom it may be said, as of Justinian, that " the vain titles of his victories are crumbled into dust; but the name of the legislator...is inscribed on a fair and everlasting monument." This code, established throughout the vast extent of the French empire and its vassal kingdoms, is... | |
 | Books - 1837 - 556 pages
...he Emperor Napoleon, of whom it may be said, as of Justinian, that "the vain titles of his victories are crumbled into dust ; but the name of the legislator is inscribed on af;,ir and everlasting monument." This code, cstab- j lished throughout the vast extent of the French... | |
 | Timothy Walker - History - 1838 - 40 pages
...written constitution. "While the vain titles of the victories of Justinian are crumbled into dust, the name of the LEGISLATOR is inscribed on a fair and everlasting monument!" Thus Gibbon speaks of the Roman Legislator, and thus may our historian then be able to speak of our... | |
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