THE vain titles of the victories of Justinian are crumbled into dust: but the name of the legislator is inscribed on a fair and everlasting monument. Under his reign, and by his care, the civil jurisprudence was digested in the immortal works of the CODE,... The North American Review - Page 241826Full view - About this book
 | Horace Binney - 1844 - 166 pages
...Christians,—and that Justinian, " the vain titles of whose victories are crumbled into dust, while the name of the Legislator is inscribed on a fair and everlasting monument," obtains, with this praise from the Historian of the Decline and Fall, the more enviable sneer, of being... | |
 | Horace Binney - 1844 - 332 pages
...Christians,—and that Justinian, "the vain titles of whose victories are crumbled into dust while the name of the Legislator is inscribed on a fair and everlasting monument," obtains, with this praise from the Historian of the Decline and Fall, the more enviable sneer, of being... | |
 | 1846 - 528 pages
...of Rome was digested in the immortal works of the CODE, the PANDECTS, and the INSTITUTES ; " that " the public reason of the Romans has been silently,...transfused into the domestic institutions of Europe;" and that " the laws of that emperor still command the respect or obedience of independent nations." But... | |
 | 1846 - 518 pages
...of the Roman Empire on the Emperor Justinian : — " The vain titles of the victories of Justinian are crumbled into dust ; but the name of the Legislator...is inscribed on a fair and everlasting monument." But while the establishment throughout the country of a uniform system of national jurisprudence conferred... | |
 | 1846 - 520 pages
...Fall of the Roman Empire on the Emperor Justinian: —" The vain titles of the victories of Justinian are crumbled into dust; but the name of the Legislator...is inscribed on a fair and everlasting monument." But while the establishment throughout the country of a uniform system of national jurisprudence conferred... | |
 | 1846 - 528 pages
...inscribed on a fair and everlasting monument ; " that under " his reign, the civil jurisprudence of Rome was digested in the immortal works of the CODE, the PANDECTS, and the INSTITUTES ; " that " the public reason of the Romans has been silently, or studiously transfused into the domestic... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1847 - 542 pages
...actions — IV. Crimes and punishments. THE vain titles of the victories of Justinian are crumbled inio dust : but the name of the legislator is inscribed...was digested in the immortal works of the CODE, the PANDKCTS, and (he INSTITUTES :(l) the public reason of the Romans has been silently or studiously transfused... | |
 | New-York Historical Society - 1821 - 422 pages
...both these monarchs we may already say, in the words of Gibbon, " the vain titles of their victories are crumbled into dust : but the name of the legislator...is inscribed on a fair and everlasting monument." Albericus Gentilis was the forerunner of Grotius in the science whose history we are reviewing. —... | |
 | Joseph Jones - 1849 - 602 pages
...memorable for the military exploits of his generals, Belisarius and Narses, and still more so, because under his reign, and by his care, the civil jurisprudence was digested in the works of the Code, the Pandects, and the Institutes. The whole undertaking was animated by the spirit... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1850 - 670 pages
...PRIVATE INJURIES AND ACTIONS. IV. CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS. THE vain titles of the victories of Justinian are crumbled into dust ; but the name of the legislator...reason of the Romans has been silently or studiously 1 The civilians of the darker ages have established nn absurd and incomprehensible mode of quotation,... | |
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