 | Edward Gibbon - 1806 - 410 sider
...had filled many thousand volumes, which no fortune eould purchase and no capacity could digest. Boots could not easily be found ; and the judges, poor in...properties'; and the Barbarous dialect of the Latins was imper* fectly studied in the academies of Berytus and Constantinople. As an Illyrian soldier, that... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1811 - 416 sider
...variety of lawsand legal opinions AD S?T, had filled many thousand volumes, which no for- &c' tune could purchase and no capacity could digest. Books...barbarous dialect of the Latins was imperfectly studied m the academies of Berytus and Constantinople. As an Illyrian soldier, that idiom was 1 See the Thcodosian... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1816 - 508 sider
...Justinian, infinite variety of laws and legal opinions had filled tj. ' 27'many thousand volumes, whir.li no fortune could purchase and no capacity could digest. Books could not easily be found ; aud the judges, poor in the midst of riches, were reduced to the exercise of their illiterate discretion.... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1820 - 398 sider
...centuries, the mfinite variety of laws and AM 527, legal opinions had filled many thousand vo-&c' lumes, which no fortune could purchase,, and no capacity...Latins was imperfectly studied in the academies of • See the Theodosian Code, 1. i, tit. iv, with Godefroy's Commentary, tom, i, p. 30-35. This decree... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1828 - 598 sider
...space of ten centuries,' says Gibbon, ' the infinite variety of laws and legal opinions had filled many thousand volumes, which no fortune could purchase,...reduced to the exercise of their illiterate discretion.' These are the evils which the statutory digests of Justinian were originally designed to remove. A... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1828 - 598 sider
...space of ten centuries,' says Gibbon, ' the infinite variety of laws and legal opinions had filled many thousand volumes, which no fortune could purchase,...reduced to the exercise of their illiterate discretion.' These are the evils which the statutory digests of Justinian were originally designed to remove. A... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1843 - 550 sider
...task. In the space of ten centuries, the infinite variety of laws and legal opinions had filled manv thousand volumes, which no fortune could purchase...easily be found ; and the judges, poor in the midst of (64) Justinian (Institut. I. HI. tit. \\i\\. and Theophil. Vera, finer, p. 077. G80,) tas commemorated... | |
 | Caroline Frances Cornwallis - 1852 - 312 sider
...impossible: "in the space of ten centuries the infinite variety of laws and legal opinions had filled many thousand volumes, which no fortune could purchase,...the Greek provinces were ignorant of the language which disposed of their lives and properties,"* and Justinianus saw the necessity of putting the legal... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1857 - 720 sider
...indispensable task. In the space of ten centuries the infinite variety of laws and legal opinions had filled many thousand volumes, which no fortune could purchase...judges, poor in the midst of riches, were reduced t<> the exercise of their illiterate discretion. The subjects of the Greek provinces were ignorant... | |
 | New York (State). Commissioners of the Code - 1858 - 130 sider
...Roman historian complained so justly, when "the infinite variety of laws and legal opinions had filled many thousand volumes, which no fortune could purchase, and no capacity could digest." How far, in the preparation of a Code, changes should be recommended, is a question of much delicacy.... | |
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In the space of ten centuries the .infinite variety of laws and legal opinions had filled many thousand volumes, which no fortune could purchase and no capacity could digest. Books could not easily be found; and the judges, poor in the midst of riches,... 
