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
 | 1888 - 554 pages
...Justinian folly," but a greater than Mr. Bishop says "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." Perhaps Mr. Bishop thinks the Livingston Code of Louisiana is also a folly. He should not be censorious.... | |
 | Frances Locock - 1874 - 94 pages
...reigned from 527 to 505. His generals Belisarius and Narses reunited Italy and Africa to the empire. " Under his reign, and by his care, the civil jurisprudence...was digested in the immortal works of the Code, the l'» udects, and the Institutes; the public reason of the Romans has been silently or studiously transfused... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1875 - 666 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...the public reason of the Romans has been silently or studiouslj 1 The civilians of the darker ages have established an absurd and incomprehensible mode... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1876 - 666 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 is inscribed on a lair and everlasting monument Under his reign, and by his aare, the civil jurisprudence was digested... | |
 | Henry Harper Geach - 1877 - 74 pages
...Roman jurisprudence and Justinian's system, remarks : " 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." Chancellor Kent, in his Commentaries, says: " The whole body of the civil law will excite neverfailing... | |
 | James Paterson - 1877 - 538 pages
...have done much towards systematising law. — Thibaut's Syst. d. Pandek. part i. ch. i. GIBBON says "the public reason of the Romans has been silently...transfused into the domestic institutions of Europe. It has exhausted many learned lives, and clothed the walls of spacious libraries." — Decl. Rom. Emp.... | |
 | 1877 - 972 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... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1877 - 982 pages
...Christians — and that' Justinian, 'the vain titles of whose victories aro crumbled into dust while obtains, with this praise from tho Historian of the Decline and Fall, the more enviable sneer, of being... | |
 | 1880 - 214 pages
...Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Gibbon tells us that "the vain titles of the victories of Justinian are crumbled into dust; but the name of the legislator...the laws of Justinian still command the respect or obe* Transactions of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, 3(1 scries, vol. v. . • dience of... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1880 - 674 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...everlasting monument. Under his reign, and by his eare, the civil jurisprudence was digested in the immortal works of the CODE, the PANDECTS, and the... | |
| |