 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
 | Francis Bacon - Induction (Logic) - 1851 - 376 pages
...ftreams : and like as waters do take tinctures 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. Again, the wifdom of a Lawmaker confifteth not only in a platform of Juftice, but in... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1852 - 238 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... | |
 | Samuel Ware Fisher - Young men - 1852 - 394 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."* Rising from the same source, invested with the same authority, subordinate to the same... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1852 - 580 pages
...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 vjhich they run, so do civil laws vary according to the regions and governments where they are planted,... | |
 | William Mawdesley Best - Cross-examination - 1854 - 930 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 (a)." As therefore the study of natural law precedes that of municipal, so an inquiry into... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Ethics - 1854 - 894 pages
...are in nature certain fountains of justice, whence all civil laws are derived but as streams : and it suffereth from spirit, such one as it holdeth...authorized than itself; and so suffereth from tht fountains. Again, the wisdom of a law-maker consistcth not only in a platform of justice, but in the... | |
 | Sir James Mackintosh - Political science - 1854 - 898 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."* On the great questions of morality, of politics, and of municipal law, it is the object... | |
 | American essays - 1868 - 796 pages
...arc 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...planted, though they proceed from the same fountain." The Advancement of Learning, afterwards translated and expanded into the Latin treatise De Augmentis,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1857 - 854 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1859 - 852 pages
...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...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... | |
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