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Page 16 - Now this was the manner in former time in Israel concerning redeeming and concerning changing, for to confirm all things ; a man plucked off his shoe, and gave it to his neighbour : and this was a testimony in Israel Therefore the kinsman said unto Boaz, Buy it for thee.
Page 9 - Of law there can be no less acknowledged than that her seat " is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world : all " things in heaven and earth do her homage, the very least as " feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her
Page 75 - Cicero, and by him found wanting ; yet majestic in its bareness, impressive in its conciseness ; the true language of history, instinct with the spirit of nations, and not with the passions of individuals ; breathing the maxims of the world, and not the tenets of the schools ; one and uniform in its air and spirit, whether touched by the stern and haughty Sallust, by the open and discursive Livy, by the reserved and thoughtful Tacitus.
Page 9 - Wherefore, that here we may briefly end : of law there can be no less acknowledged, than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world : all things in heaven and earth do her homage, the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power; both angels and men and creatures of what condition soever, though each in different sort and manner, yet all with uniform consent, admiring her as the mother of their peace and their joy.
Page 31 - The gulph of a great revolution completely separates the new from the old system. No such chasm divides the existence of the English nation into two distinct parts. Our laws and customs have never been lost in general and irreparable ruin. With us the precedents of the middle ages are still valid precedents, and are still cited, on the gravest occasions, by the most eminent statesmen.
Page 41 - Thus while you speak in your own element, the law, no man ordinarily equals you ; but when you •wander, as you often delight to do, you wander indeed, and give never such satisfaction as the curious time requires. This is not caused by any natural defect, but first for want of election, when you having a large and fruitful mind, should not so much labour what to speak, as to find what to leave unspoken : rich soils are often to be weeded.
Page 16 - THE chief object of the following pages is to indicate some of the earliest ideas of mankind, as they are reflected in Ancient Law, and to point out the relation of those ideas to modern thought.
Page 76 - No avocations of professional labour will make him abandon their wholesome study ; in the midst of a thousand cares he will find an hour to recur to his boyish lessons — to reperuse them in the pleasurable consciousness of old associations, and in the clearness of manly judgment, and to apply them to himself and to the world with superior profit. " The more extended his sphere of learning in the literature of modern Europe, the more deeply, though the more wisely, will he reverence that of classical...
Page 34 - ... one half of which sum is to be given to the informer, and the other half to the poor of the parish, to be levied by distress...