 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
 | Law - 1885 - 544 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." (Advancement of Learning.) We believe that the constant tendency of modern law is toward... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Logic - 1885 - 438 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...run, so do civil laws vary according to the regions \ 7 and governments where they are planted, though they proceed from the same fountains. Again, the... | |
 | Robert Freke Gould - 1885 - 304 pages
...Masonry. The probability, not to put the case any higher, is, indeed, quite the other way, but " as waters take tinctures and tastes from the soils through which they run," so may the Masonic customs, though proceeding from the same source, have varied according to the regions... | |
 | Edwin Percy Whipple - English literature - 1886 - 382 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...planted, though they proceed from the same fountain." The Advancemen't of Learning, afterwards translated and expanded into the Latin treatise De Augmentis,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1887 - 882 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...run, so do civil laws vary according to the regions nnd governments where they are planted, though they proceed from the same fountains. Again, the wisdom... | |
 | William Henry Seward - Legislators - 1888 - 714 pages
...certain fountains of justice, from which all pure civil laws flow, varying only in this, that as waters take tinctures and tastes from the soils through which they run, so do civil laws differ according to the regions and governments where they are planted." Luther had already summoned... | |
 | Alexander Robertson - England - 1889 - 464 pages
...justice, whence all civil laws are derived but as streams; and like as waters do tincture and taste from the soils through which they run, so do civil...they are planted, though they proceed from the same fountains." The law of nature suitable toman. — Now, this law of nature as regards man is such that... | |
 | Alexander Robertson - England - 1889 - 468 pages
...waters do tincture and taste from the soils through which they run, so do civil laws 10 LECTURE OX THE vary according to the regions and governments where...they are planted, though they proceed from the same fountains." The law of nature suitable to man.—Now, this law of nature as regards man is such that... | |
 | Edmund Burke - France - 1890 - 568 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, Adv. ii. 23. 49. 1. 36. institution, training. A Latinism. Cf. p. Ill, 1. 32.... | |
 | David Nasmith - Humanities - 1892 - 316 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." " He that will reduce a knowledge into an art, will make it round and uniform : but in... | |
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