 | James Wilson - 1804 - 514 sider
...the sentence of the law. But at Rome, the son held his life by the tenure of his father's pleasure. In the forum, -the senate, or the camp, the adult son of a Roman citizen enjoyed the publick and private rights of a person : in his father's house, he was a mere thing ; z confounded,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1826 - 546 sider
...reason c fnculcates to the human species the returns of filial piety. But the exclusive, absolute, and perpetual dominion of the father over his children, is peculiar to the Roman jurisprudence*, and seems to be coeval with the foundation of the city. The paternal power was" instituted... | |
 | Jean Louis de Lolme, Archibald John Stephens - 1838 - 674 sider
...reason inculcates to the human species the returns of that piety. But the exclusive, absolute, nud perpetual dominion of the father over his children, is peculiar to the Roman jurisprudence", and seems to be coeval with the foundation of the city'2. The paternal power was instituted... | |
 | Seven ages - 1842 - 154 sider
...of reason inculcates to the human species the returns of filial piety. But the exclusive, absolute, and perpetual dominion of the father over his children, is peculiar to the Roman jurisprudence, and seems to be coeval with the foundation of the city. The paternal power was instituted... | |
 | William Hague - 1847 - 66 sider
...his history of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Gibbon remarks, " The exclusive, absolute, and perpetual dominion of the father over his children, is peculiar to the Roman jurisprudence, and seems to be coeval with the foundation of the city. The paternal power was instituted... | |
 | Horace Thomas Love - 1851 - 56 sider
...history of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, says : — " The exclusive, absolute, and the perpetual dominion of the father over his children, is peculiar to the Roman jurisprudence, and seems to be coeval with the foundation of the city. The paternal power was instituted... | |
 | Jonas Hartzel - 1854 - 330 sider
...of reason inculcates to the human vpecies the returns of filial piety. But the exclusive, absolute, and perpetual dominion of the father over his children, is peculiar to the Roman jurisprudence, and seems to be coeval with the foundation 3f the city. The paternal power was instituted... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1854 - 440 sider
...inculcates to the faiiim w& human species the returns of filial piety. But the exclusive, cbildreuabsolute, and perpetual dominion of the father over his children is peculiar to the Roman jurisprudence,101 and seems to be coeval with the foundation of the city.103 The paternal power was... | |
 | Jonas Hartzel - 1854 - 340 sider
...of reason inculcates to the human species the returns of filial piety. But the exclusive, absolute, and perpetual dominion of the father over his children, is peculiar to the Roman jurisprudence, and seems to be coeval with the foundation of the city. The paternal power was instituted... | |
 | Thomas Whitcombe Greene - 1872 - 258 sider
...of reason inculcates to the human species the returns of filial piety. But the exclusive, absolute and perpetual dominion of the father over his children is peculiar to the Roman jurisprudence."' (Gibbon, c. 44). Gaius includes the jus naturale in the jus gentium, as the law of... | |
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The law of nature instructs most animals to cherish and educate their infant progeny. The law of reason inculcates to the human species the returns of filial piety. But the exclusive, absolute, and perpetual dominion of the father over his children, is... 
