 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 299edited by - 1847Full view - About this book
 | National Association for the Promotion of Social Science (Great Britain) - Great Britain - 1863 - 998 pages
...fountains of * Adv. of Learning, Book ii. H 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." These principles are learned by attentive study of human nature, of the rules of morality... | |
 | John Codman Hurd - Law - 1858 - 678 pages
...like as waters do take tinctures and tastes from the soil through which they run, so do civil lawt vary according to the regions and governments where they are planted, though they proceed from the s*rne fountain." Bacoa Adv. Learn. B. II. c 8. Works, voL L 238. Am. Ed. 1 See «/<•, g§ 53-6S.... | |
 | Sir James Mackintosh - 1858 - 616 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 soils through which they run, во do civil laws vary according to the regions and governments wher.- they are planted, though they... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1859 - 856 pages
...certain fountains of justice, whence all civil laws are derived but as streams ; and like as \naters do take tinctures and tastes from the soils through...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... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - Readers (Secondary) - 1861 - 562 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. CLVL— PASSAGES FROM JEREMY TAYLOR. I.TKBKHY TAYIOR WM born at Cambridge, in England, in... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1861 - 862 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 consisteth not only in a platform of justice, but in the... | |
 | Lyttleton Forbes Winslow - Forensic psychiatry - 1863 - 788 pages
...nature," says he, "certain fountains of justice whence all civil laws are derived; but as streams and like as waters do take tinctures and tastes from the...the regions and governments where they are planted, and through which they proceed from the same fountains." But in the same manner as we cannot far trace... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1864 - 464 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 consisteth not only in a platform of justice, but in the... | |
 | Law - 1864 - 410 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." Bacon's Dig. and Advt. of Learning Works, vol. 1, p. 101. It is in the same spirit that... | |
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