 | Enos Bronson - 1811 - 456 pages
...general approaching to them more nearly than the codes of most other nations. When we pass, indeed, from the ravings of the Zendavesta, or the Puranas,...seem to be passing from darkness to light; from the drivelings of dotage to the exercises of an improved understanding. And, redundant and absurdly minute... | |
 | 1812 - 470 pages
...general approaching to them more nearly than the codes of most other nations. When we pass, indeed, from the ravings of the Zendavesta, or the Puranas,...seem to be passing from darkness to light; from the drivelings of dotage to the exercises of an improved understanding. And, redundant and absurdly minute... | |
 | Sir George Thomas Staunton - 1822 - 458 pages
...general approaching to them more nearly than the codes of most other nations. When we pass, indeed, from the ravings of the Zendavesta, or the Puranas,...to light,— from the drivellings of dotage to the exercises of an improved understanding : And, redundant and absurdly minute as these laws are, in many... | |
 | Sir George Thomas Staunton - 1828 - 364 pages
...genera] approaching to them more nearly than the codes of most other nations. When we turn, indeed, from the ravings of the Zendavesta, or the Puranas,...to the exercise of an improved understanding : and redundant and minute as these laws are, in many particulars, we scarcely know any European code that... | |
 | sir John Francis Davis (1st bart.) - 1836 - 390 pages
...towards them. The able critique on the code, which we have already quoted, proceeds to say, " When we turn from the ravings of the Zendavesta, or the...to the exercise of an improved understanding : and redundant and minute as these laws are, in many particulars, we scarcely know any European code that... | |
 | John Francis Davis - 1836 - 420 pages
...The able critique on the code, which we have aiready quoted, proceeds to say, " When we turn frotn the ravings of the Zendavesta, or the Puranas, to...to the exercise of an improved understanding : and redundant and minute aa these laws are, in many particulars, we scarcely know any European code that... | |
 | Sir John Francis Davis - 1836 - 446 pages
...towards them. The able critique on the code, which we have already quoted, proceeds to say, " When we turn from the ravings of the Zendavesta, or the...to be passing from darkness to light — from the drive!lings of dotage to the exercise of an improved understanding : and redundant and minute as these... | |
 | 1837
...supply much below that average, and the true total may therefore be 40 millions, as above. Laws. — We possess a translation of the Tartar-Chinese penal...to the exercise of an improved understanding ; and redundant and minute as these laws are, in many particulars, we scarcely know any European code that... | |
 | Walter Henry Medhurst - 1838 - 646 pages
...turn from the ravings of the Zend Avesta, or the Puranas, to the tone of sense and business of the Chinese collection, we seem to be passing from darkness...to the exercise of an improved understanding ; and redundant and minute as these laws are, in many particulars, we scarcely know any eastern code, that... | |
 | Enoch Cobb Wines - 1839 - 112 pages
...distinct series of enactments, savouring throughout of practical judgment and European good sense. When we turn from the ravings of the Zendavesta, or the...to the exercise of an improved understanding : and, redundant and minute as these laws are in many * Davis. 12 89 particulars, we scarcely know any European... | |
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When we turn from the ravings of the Zendavesta, or the Puranas, to the tone of sense and of business of this Chinese collection, we seem to be passing from darkness to light — from the drivellings of dotage to the exercise of an improved understanding... 
