 | England - 1842 - 850 pages
...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...planted, though they proceed from the same fountains." The same observations may apply to the Roman law, to which Mr Lewis has alluded. Mr Lewis is altogether... | |
 | 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 - English essays - 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 - Logic - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - International law - 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,... | |
 | Antislavery movements - 1833 - 370 pages
...streams ; and like as waters do tajte 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. — UACOX. No schism in the body politic can be more fatal than that which alienates the hands from... | |
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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... 
