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
 | Edward Gibbon - 1857 - 720 pages
...judges: assessors. § 32. Voluntary exile and death. § 1. THE vain titles of the victories of Justinian are crumbled into dust, but the name of the legislator...was digested in the immortal works of the CODE, the PANDRCTS, and the INSTITUTES : the public reason of the Romans has been silently or studiously transfused... | |
 | 1857 - 916 pages
..."The vain titles of the victories of Justlninn arc crumbled into dust, but the name of the le^i-latwr is inscribed on a fair and everlasting monument. Under his reign, and by his cure, the. civil jurisprudence was digested in the immortal works of the Code, the Pandecta, and the... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1858 - 658 pages
...as long as the world abhors the maxims of communism. " 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," says Gibbon. The Romans were no deep philosophers. Their ideas about the nature of the Deity and her... | |
 | 1863 - 832 pages
...jurisprudence. He opens it with the eloquent passage : " The vain titles of the victories of Justinian are crumbled into dust ; but the name of the legislator...immortal works of the Code, the Pandects, and the Institute ; the public reason of the Romans has been silently or studiously transferred into the domestic... | |
 | 1863 - 830 pages
...jurisprudence. He opens it with the eloquent passage : " The vain titles of the victories of Justinian are crumbled into dust ; but the name of the legislator...everlasting monument. Under his reign and by his care, th^ civil jurisprudence was digested in the immortal works of the Code, the Pandects, and the Institute... | |
 | 1863 - 740 pages
...committed to Tribonian the task of digesting the civil jurisprudence, — a commission which resulted in the immortal works of the CODE, the PANDECTS, and the INSTITUTES. The example of Justinian has been followed with more or less success in later times, and in other countries.... | |
 | 1866 - 514 pages
...Esprit des Loix by Montesquieu. " The " vain titles of the victories of Justinian," writes Gibbon, " are " crumbled into dust ; but the name of the legislator...is inscribed " on a fair and everlasting monument. " No portion of the writings of Cicero are more valuable than those which illustrated the jurisprudence... | |
 | R.C. Lepage - 1866 - 518 pages
...Esprit des Loix by Montesquieu. " The " vain titles of the victories of Justinian/' writes Gibbon, " are " crumbled into dust; but the name of the legislator...is inscribed " on a fair and everlasting monument." No portion of the writings of Cicero are more valuable than those which illustrated the jurisprudence... | |
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