 | Enos Bronson - 1811 - 456 Seiten
...the drivelings of dotage to the exercises of an improved understanding. And, redundant and absurdly minute as these laws are, in many particulars, we...nearly so free from intricacy, bigotry, and fiction. In every thing relating to political freedom or individual independence, it is, indeed, wofully defective;... | |
 | 1812 - 470 Seiten
...the drivelings of dotage to the exercises of an improved understanding. And, redundant and absurdly minute as these laws are, in many particulars, we...copious and so consistent, or that is nearly so free fr.-iii intricacy, bigotry, and fiction. In every thing relating to political freedom or individual... | |
 | 1867 - 810 Seiten
...Review,' in an article on Sir George Staunton's translation of that code, said — " We scarcely know a European code that is at once so copious and so consistent, or is nearly so freed from intricacy, bigotry, and fiction." has had to perform operations on Chinamen,... | |
 | Sir George Thomas Staunton - 1822 - 458 Seiten
...the drivellings of dotage to the exercises of an improved understanding : And, redundant and absurdly minute as these laws are, in many particulars, we...nearly so free from intricacy, bigotry, and fiction. In every thing relating to political freedom or individual independence, it is indeed wofully defective... | |
 | Sir George Thomas Staunton - 1828 - 364 Seiten
...genera] approaching to them more nearly than the codes of most other nations. When we turn, indeed, from the ravings of the Zendavesta, or the Puranas,...nearly so free from intricacy, bigotry, and fiction. In every thing relating to political freedom or individual independence, it is, indeed, woefully defective... | |
 | sir John Francis Davis (1st bart.) - 1836 - 390 Seiten
...justice towards them. The able critique on the code, which we have already quoted, proceeds to say, " When we turn from the ravings of the Zendavesta, or...nearly so free from intricacy, bigotry, and fiction. Jn every thing relating to political freedom, or individual independence, it is indeed wofully defective;... | |
 | Sir John Francis Davis - 1836 - 446 Seiten
...business of this Chinese collection, we seem to be passing from darkness to light — from the drive!lings of dotage to the exercise of an improved understanding...know any European code that is at once so copious and fo consistent, or that is nearly so free from intricacy, bigotry, and fiction. In every thing relating... | |
 | John Francis Davis - 1836 - 420 Seiten
...the drivellings of dotage to the exercise of an improved understanding : and redundant and minute aa these laws are, in many particulars, we scarcely know...nearly so free from intricacy, bigotry, and fiction. In every thing relating to political freedom, or individual independence, it is indeed wofully defective... | |
 | 1837
...other Asiatic systems has been made by an able critic in the ' Edinburgh Review.' ' When (says he) we turn from the ravings of the Zendavesta, or the...nearly so free from intricacy, bigotry, and fiction. In everything relating to political freedom or individual independence, it is, indeed, wofully defective... | |
 | 1837 - 1040 Seiten
...other Asiatic systems has been made by an able critic in the ' Edinburgh Review." ' When (says he) we turn from the ravings of the Zendavesta, or the...nearly so free from intricacy, bigotry, and fiction. In everything relating to political freedom or individual independence, it is, indeed, wofully defective... | |
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When we turn from the ravings of the Zendavesta, or the Puranas, to the tone of sense and of business of this Chinese collection, we seem to be passing from darkness to light — from the drivellings of dotage to the exercise of an improved understanding... 
