 Normans, they must have insensibly introduced and incorporated many of their own customs with those that were before established ; thereby, in all probability, improving the texture and wisdom of the whole, by the accumulated wisdom of divers particular...  Mediaeval and Modern History - Page 41by Philip Van Ness Myers - 1905 - 751 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Blackstone - 1793 - 686 pages
...and wifdom of the whole, by the accumulated wifdom of divers particular countries. Our laws, faith lord Bacon', are mixed as our language : and as our language is fo much the richer, the laws are the more completeAND indeed our antiquaries and early hiftorians do... | |
 | William Herbert - 1804 - 454 pages
...accumulated wisdom of divers particular countries. Our laws by this means, says lord Bacon, becoming " as mixed as our language : and as our language is so much the richer, the laws are the more complete V Leaving the uncertain conjectures of antiquaries, who endeavour to trace the origin of the English... | |
 | Edward Shippen, William Hamilton - 1805 - 590 pages
...and wifdom of the whole, by the accumulated wifdom of divers particular countries. Our laws, faith Lord Bacon, are mixed as our language : and, as our language is lo much the richer, the laws are the more complete. And, indeed, our antiquarians, and early hiflorians... | |
 | Sir William Blackstone - 1807 - 686 pages
...the whole, by the accumulated wisdom of divers particular countries. Our laws, saith lord Bacon d, are mixed as our language : and as our language is...so much the richer, the laws are the more complete. And indeed our antiquaries and early historians do all positively assure us, that our body of laws... | |
 | William Hutchinson - 1823 - 798 pages
...accumulated wisdom of divers particular countiics. Our laws, saith Lord Bacon, arc mixed like our languags ; and as our language is so much the richer, the laws are the more compleat." " And indeed our antiquaries and first historians do all positively assure us, that our... | |
 | William Blackstone - 1825 - 572 pages
...of the whole by the accumulated wisdom of divers particular countries. Our laws, saith Lord Bacon d, are mixed as our language : and as our language is...so much the richer, the laws are the more complete. AND, indeed, our antiquaries and early historians do all positively assure us, that our body of laws... | |
 | Sir William Blackstone - 1825 - 660 pages
...of the whole by the accumulated wisdom of divers particular countries. Our laws, saith Lord Bacon d, are mixed as our language : and as our language is...so much the richer, the laws are the more complete. AND, indeed, our antiquaries and early historians do all positively assure us, that our body of laws... | |
 | Sir John Fortescue, Andrew Amos - 1825 - 304 pages
...situation, "toto divisos orbe Britannos." But Bacon takes a pride in observing, "that our laws are as mixed as our language; and as our language is so much the richer on that account, so are the laws more complete." No writers have viewed more philosophically than Lord... | |
 | Abner Kneeland, Samuel Dunn Parker - 1834 - 282 pages
...these different nations would be impossible at this distmnce of time. " Our laws, says Bacon, are as mixed as our language, and as our language is so much the richer, the laws are more complete." The early history of the Island of Great Britain shows it first in the possession of... | |
 | Andrew Dunlap - 1834 - 278 pages
...these different nations would be impossible at this distance of time. "Our laws, say» Bacon, are as mixed as our language, and as our language is so much the richer, the laws are more complete." The early history of the Island of Great Britain shows it first in the possession of... | |
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