 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1805 - 506 pages
...centuries, the infinite vaAD 1^527 rlcty of laws anll legal opinions had filled many thousand In:. volumes, which no fortune could purchase and no capacity...reduced to the exercise of their illiterate discretion. The subjects of the Greek provinces were ignorant of the language that disposed of their lives and... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1806 - 410 pages
...had filled many thousand volumes, which no fortune eould purchase and no capacity could digest. Boots could not easily be found ; and the judges, poor in...reduced to the exercise of their illiterate discretion. The subjects of the Greek provinces were ignorant of the language that disposed of their lives and... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1811 - 416 pages
...variety of lawsand legal opinions AD S?T, had filled many thousand volumes, which no for- &c' tune could purchase and no capacity could digest. Books...reduced to the exercise of their illiterate discretion. The subjects of the Greek provinces were ignorant of the language that disposed of their lives and... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1816 - 508 pages
...whir.li no fortune could purchase and no capacity could digest. Books could not easily be found ; aud the judges, poor in the midst of riches, were reduced to the exercise of their illiterate discretion. The subjects of the Greek provinces were ignorant of the language that disposed of thenlives and properties... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1820 - 398 pages
...centuries, the mfinite variety of laws and AM 527, legal opinions had filled many thousand vo-&c' lumes, which no fortune could purchase,, and no capacity...reduced to the exercise of their illiterate discretion. The subjects of the Greek provinces were ignorant of the language that disposed of their lives and... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1826 - 462 pages
...indispensable task. 'IM/A'D'.' In the space of ten centuries, the infinite variety of laws ami «¡т, ¿с. legal opinions had filled many thousand volumes, which...reduced to the exercise of their illiterate discretion. The subjects of the Greek provinces were ignorant of the language that disposed of their lives and... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1826 - 546 pages
...space often centuries, the ^"^ " D infinite variety of laws and legal opinions had filled 527,'&c. many thousand volumes, which no fortune could purchase...reduced to the exercise of their illiterate discretion. The subjects of the Greek provinces were ignorant of the language that disposed of their lives and... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1828 - 598 pages
...the whole body of those actually in operation was full of obscurity and wholly destitute of order. ' In the space of ten centuries,' says Gibbon, ' the...reduced to the exercise of their illiterate discretion.' These are the evils which the statutory digests of Justinian were originally designed to remove. A... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1828 - 598 pages
...the whole body of those actually in operation was full of obscurity and wholly destitute of order. ' In the space of ten centuries,' says Gibbon, ' the...reduced to the exercise of their illiterate discretion.' These are the evils which the statutory digests of Justinian were originally designed to remove. A... | |
 | Caroline Frances Cornwallis - Civilization, Ancient - 1852 - 312 pages
...so complex that the administration of justice was almost impossible: "in the space of ten centuries the infinite variety of laws and legal opinions had...reduced to the exercise of their illiterate discretion. The subjects of the Greek provinces were ignorant of the language which disposed of their lives and... | |
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In the space of ten centuries the infinite variety of laws and legal opinions had filled many thousand volumes, which no fortune could purchase and no capacity could digest. Books could not easily be found; and the judges, poor in the midst of riches,... 
