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" The most remarkable thing in this code is its great reasonableness, clearness, and consistency ; the business-like brevity and directness of the various provisions, and the plainness and moderation of the language in which they are expressed. "
Things Chinese: Being Notes on Various Subjects Connected with China - Page 258
by James Dyer Ball - 1893 - 501 pages
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Select Reviews, and Spirit of the Foreign Magazines, Volume 5

Enos Bronson - 1811 - 456 pages
...And here we will confess, that by far the most remarkable thing in this code, appeared to us to be its great reasonableness, clearness, and consistency;...various provisions, and the plainness and moderation of the language in which they are expressed. There is nothing, here, of the monstrous verbiage of to...
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Select Reviews, Volume 5

1812 - 470 pages
...And here we will confess, that by far the most remarkable thing in this code, appeared to us to be its great reasonableness, clearness, and consistency;...various provisions, and the plainness and moderation of .the language in which they are expressed. There is nothing. here, of the monstrous verbiage of...
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Miscellaneous Notices Relating to China: And Our Commercial Intercourse with ...

Sir George Thomas Staunton - 1822 - 458 pages
...And here, we will confess, that by far the most remarkable thing in this code appeared to us to be its great reasonableness, clearness and consistency...various provisions, and the plainness and moderation of the language in which they are expressed. There is nothing, here, of the monstrous verbiage of most...
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View in the East, with historical and descriptive illustrations

Robert Elliot - 1833 - 396 pages
...institutions. And here we confess, that by far the most remarkable thing in this case, appeared to us to be, its great reasonableness, clearness, and consistency...various provisions, and the plainness and moderation of the language in which they are expressed," — comparing them with the monstrous verbiage of other...
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The Chinese, Volume 1

sir John Francis Davis (1st bart.) - 1836 - 390 pages
...critique* on Sir George Staunton's version of the Leu-lee, must be considered as praise of a high kind: — "The most remarkable thing in this code is its great...various provisions, and the plainness and moderation of the language in which they are expressed. There is nothing here of the monstrous verbiage of most...
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The Chinese: A General Description of the Empire of China and Its ..., Volume 1

John Francis Davis - 1836 - 420 pages
...on Sir George Staunton's version of the Leu-lee, must be considered as praise of a high kind : — " The most remarkable thing in this code is its great...various provisions, and the plainness and moderation of the language in which they are expressed. There is nothing here of the monstrous verbiage of most...
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The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B.: Letters from a citizen of ...

Oliver Goldsmith, Sir James Prior - 1837 - 582 pages
...the Chinese laws with admiration/1) An order for the (1) [" The most remarkable thing in the Chinese code is its great reasonableness, clearness, and consistency;...various provisions, and the plainness and moderation of the language in which they are expressed. There is nothing here of the monstrous verbiage of most...
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Letters from a citizen of the world, to his friend in the East. A familiar ...

Oliver Goldsmith - 1837 - 574 pages
...the Chinese laws with admiration/1' An order for the (1) [" The most remarkable thing in the Chinese code is its great reasonableness, clearness, and consistency;...brevity and directness of the various provisions, and tbe plainness and moderation of tlie language in which they are expressed. There is nothing here of...
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A Descriptive Catalogue of the Chinese Collection, in Philadelphia: With ...

Nathan Dunn, Philadelphia Museum of Art - 1839 - 140 pages
...criminal law, with the following testimony of an able writer in the Edinburgh Review. He says:—" The most remarkable thing in this code is its great...various provisions, and the plainness and moderation of the language in which they are expressed. It is a clear, concise, and distinct series of enactments,...
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..."Ten Thousand Chinese Things.": A Descriptive Catalogue of the Chinese ...

Nathan Dunn - 1839 - 158 pages
...criminal law, with the following testimony of an able writer in the Edinburgh Review. He says : — " The most remarkable thing in this code is its great...various provisions, and the plainness and moderation of the language in which they are expressed. It is a clear, concise, and distinct series of enactments,...
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