 | Edward Gibbon - 1788 - 358 pages
...of the Roman jurifprudence was an byj^ftLaT, arduous but indifpenfable talk. In the fpace of AD vlt ten centuries, the infinite variety of laws and / legal opinions had filled many thoufand volumes, which no fortune could purchafe and no capacity could digeft. Books could not eafily... | |
 | 1821 - 608 pages
...of the Roman Jurisprudence was an arduous, but indispensable task. In the space of ten centuries, an infinite variety of laws and legal opinions had filled...volumes, which no fortune could purchase, and no capacity digest. The spirit of Tribtwius (whose genius, observes Gibbon, like that of Bacon, embraced as his... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1805 - 506 pages
...centuries, the infinite vaAD 1^527 rlcty of laws anll legal opinions had filled many thousand In:. volumes, which no fortune could purchase and no capacity...the Greek provinces were ignorant of the language that disposed of their lives and properties; and the barbarous dialect of the Latins was imperfectly... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1806 - 410 pages
...ation 01 the Roman jurisprudence was an arduous but indispensable task. In the space of ten centuriea, the infinite variety of laws and legal opinions 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... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1811 - 416 pages
...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...the Greek provinces were ignorant of the language that disposed of their lives and properties; and the barbarous dialect of the Latins was imperfectly... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1816 - 508 pages
...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 pages
...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...the Greek provinces were ignorant of the language that disposed of their lives and properties ; and the barbarous dialect of the Latins was imperfectly... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1826 - 462 pages
...indispensable task. 'IM/A'D'.' In the space of ten centuries, the infinite variety of laws ami «¡т, ¿с. legal opinions had filled many thousand volumes, which...the Greek provinces were ignorant of the language that disposed of their lives and properties ; and the barbarous dialect of the Latins was imperfectly... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1826 - 546 pages
...space often centuries, the ^"^ " D infinite variety of laws and legal opinions had filled 527,'&c. many thousand volumes, which no fortune could purchase...the Greek provinces were ignorant of the language that disposed of their lives and properties; and the barbarous dialect of the Latins was imperfectly... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1828 - 598 pages
...was full of obscurity and wholly destitute of order. ' In the space of ten centuries,' says Gibbon, ' the infinite variety of laws and legal opinions had...reduced to the exercise of their illiterate discretion.' These are the evils which the statutory digests of Justinian were originally designed to remove. A... | |
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When Justinian ascended the throne, the reformation of the Roman jurisprudence was an arduous but 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... 
