The inquiries of the jurist are in truth prosecuted much as inquiry in physic and physiology was prosecuted before observation had taken the place of assumption.

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• Henry James Sumner Maine:

  The members of such a society consider that the transgression of a religious ordinance should be pu

• Henry James Sumner Maine:

  The most celebrated system of jurisprudence known to the world begins, as it ends, with a Code.

• Henry James Sumner Maine:

  The most superficial student of Roman history must be struck by the extraordinary degree in which t

• Henry James Sumner Maine:

  The Roman Code was merely an enunciation in words of the existing customs of the Roman people.

• Henry James Sumner Maine:

  The Roman jurisprudence has the longest known history of any set of human institutions.

• Henry James Sumner Maine:

  When primitive law has once been embodied in a Code, there is an end to what may be called its spon

• Thomas de Quincey:

  Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.

• Thomas de Quincey:

  It was a Sunday afternoon, wet and cheerless; and a duller spectacle this earth of ours has not to

• Thomas de Quincey:

  The public is a bad guesser.

• Thomas de Quincey:

  Cows are amongst the gentlest of breathing creatures; none show more passionate tenderness to their