 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...  Works - Page 289edited by - 1847Full view - About this book
 | Sir James Mackintosh - Electronic book - 1799 - 68 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...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... | |
 | England - 1842
...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 the civil laws vary according to the regions and governments where they are planted, though they proceed... | |
 | Samuel Phelps - Great Britain - 1818
...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
...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...they are 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... | |
 | Thomas Hancock - Instinct - 1824 - 551 pages
...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...they are planted, though they proceed from the same fountains."* Causabon, who is styled by Lord Shaftesbury, "one of the greatest and most learned of... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English literature - 1824
...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...they are 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1834
...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...they are 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Logic - 1825 - 402 pages
...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...they are 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825
...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...they are 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1826
...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...they are 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... | |
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