| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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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