 | Edward Gibbon - 1826 - 538 pages
...was reduced to ashes by the author of the Pandects, from the vain persuasion, that it was now either false or superfluous. Without usurping an office so...reasonably be computed, that the price of books was a hundred fold their present value. Copies were slowly multiplied and cautiously renewed : the hopes... | |
 | Great Britain - 1836 - 1020 pages
...was reduced to ashes by the author of the Pandecte. from the vain persuasion, that it was now either false or superfluous. Without usurping an office so...and it may reasonably be computed, that the price of hooks was a hundredfold their present value. Copies were slowly multiplied, und cautiously renewed... | |
 | sir Francis Palgrave - 1847 - 690 pages
...was reduced to ashes by the author of the Pandects, from the vain persuasion that it was now either false or superfluous. Without usurping an office so...reasonably be computed that the price of books was an hundredfold their present value. Copies were slowly multiplied and cautiously renewed : the hopes of... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1854 - 440 pages
...the Pandects, JJ,0,1^. from the vain persuasion that it was now either false or dcl11*superfluous. Without usurping an office so invidious, the emperor...reasonably be computed that the price of books was an hundred-fold their present value."3 Copies 80 Nomiiiii quidem veteribus servavimus, legum autem veritatem... | |
 | John Murray (Firm) - 1854 - 430 pages
...was reduced to ashes by the author of the Pandects, from the vain persuasion that it was now either false or superfluous. Without usurping an office so...accomplishment of this destructive wish. Before the in- ' vention of printing and paper, the labour and the materials of writing could be purchased only... | |
 | John Timbs - 1857 - 444 pages
...was reduced to ashes by the author of the Pandects, from the vam persuasion that it was now either false or superfluous. Without usurping an office so...wish. Before the invention of printing and paper, the labor and the materials of writing could bo purchased only by the rich ; and it may reasonably be computed... | |
 | John Murray (Firm) - 1858 - 466 pages
...was reduced to ashes by the author of the Pandects, from the vain persuasion that it was now either false or superfluous. "Without usurping an office...reasonably be computed that the price of books was an hundredfold their present value. Copies were slowly multiplied and cautiously renewed : the hopes of... | |
 | John Timbs - 1858 - 272 pages
...was reduced to ashes by the author of the Pandects, from the vain persuasion that it was now either false or superfluous. Without usurping an office so...reasonably be computed that the price of books was a hundredfold their present value. Copies were slowly multiplied, and cautiously renewed ; the hopes... | |
 | David Ames Wells - 1863 - 470 pages
...the accomplishment of this destructive wish. Before the invention of printing and paper, the labor and the materials of writing could be purchased only...reasonably be computed that the price of books was a hundredfold their present value. Copies were slowly multiplied, and cautiously renewed; the hopes... | |
 | 1866 - 722 pages
...was reduced to ashes by the author of the Pandects, from the vain persuasion that it was now cither false or superfluous. Without usurping an office so...commit to ignorance and time the accomplishment of tliia destructive wish. Before the invention of printing and paper, the labour and the materials of... | |
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A rumour, devoid of evidence," says Gibbon, "has been propagated by the enemies of Justinian, that the Jurisprudence of ancient Rome was reduced to ashes by the author of the Pandects, from the vain persuasion that it was now either false or superfluous.... 
