 For there are in nature certain fountains of justice, whence all civil laws are derived but as streams ; and, like as waters do take tinctures and tastes from the soils through which they run, so do civil laws vary according to the regions and governments...  Blackwood's Magazine - Page 2201842Full view - About this book
 | Sir James Mackintosh - 1799 - 84 pages
...ftreams; and like as waters do take tincte tures and taftes from the foils through which " they run, fo do civil laws vary according to " the regions and governments...where they are " planted, though they proceed from the fame " fountains*." Bacon's Dig. and Adv. of Learn.— Works, vol. ip 101. On the great queftions of... | |
 | Samuel Phelps - 1818 - 634 pages
...but as streams, or waters, take their tinctures and tastes from the soils through which they run, so civil laws vary according to the regions and governments where they are established. Again, the wisdom of a lawmaker does not consist in the form or show of justice, but in... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 648 pages
...streams : and like as waters do take tinctures and tastes from the soils through which they run, so do civil laws vary according to the regions and governments...planted, though they proceed from the same fountains. Again, the wisdom of a law-maker consisteth not only in a platform of justice, but in the application... | |
 | Thomas Hancock - 1824 - 574 pages
...streams; and like as waters do take tinctures and tastes from the soils through which they run, so do civil laws vary according to the regions and governments...planted, though they proceed from the same fountains."* Causabon, who is styled by Lord Shaftesbury, "one of the greatest and most learned of moderns," expresses... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1824 - 642 pages
...streams : and like as waters do take tinctures and tastes from the soils through which they run, so do civil laws vary according to the regions and governments...planted, though they proceed from the same fountains. Again, the wisdom of a law-maker consisteth not only in a platform of justice, but in the application... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1834 - 784 pages
...streams ; and, like as waters do take tinctures and tastes from the soils through which they run, so do civil laws vary according to the regions and governments...planted, though they proceed from the same fountains. Again, the wisdom of a lawmaker consisteth not only in a platform of justice, but in the application... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 524 pages
...streams : and like as waters do take tinctures and tastes from the soils through which they run, so do civil laws vary according to the regions and governments...planted, though, they proceed from the same fountains. Again, the wisdom of a lawmaker consisteth not only in a platform of justice, but in the application... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 432 pages
...streams : and like as waters do take tinctures and tastes from the soils through which they run, so do civil laws vary according to the regions and governments...planted, though they proceed 'from the same fountains. Again, the wisdom of a lawmaker cpnsisteth not only in a platform of justice, but in the application... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1826 - 626 pages
...streams : and like as waters do take tinctures and tastes from the soils through which they run, so do civil laws vary according to the regions and governments...planted, though they proceed from the same fountains. Again, the wisdom of a law-maker consisteth not only in a platform of justice, but in ihe application... | |
 | Sir James Mackintosh - 1828 - 108 pages
...streams ; and like as waters do take tinctures and tastes from the soils through which they run, so do civil laws vary according to the regions and governments...planted, though they proceed from the same fountains."* — Bacon's Dig. and Adv. of Learn. Works, vol. ip 101. On the great questions of morality, of politics,... | |
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