Eastern despotisms; but a clear, concise, and distinct series of enactments, savouring throughout of practical judgment and European good sense, and, if not always conformable to our improved notions of expediency in this country, in general approaching... The Chinese - Seite 109von sir John Francis Davis (1st bart.) - 1840Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Enos Bronson - 1811 - 456 Seiten
...productions; none of the superstitious deliration, the miserable incoherence, the tremendous non sequiturs and eternal repetitions of those oracular performances;...adulation, the accumulated epithets, and fatiguing self praise of other eastern despqtisms; but a calm, -concise, and distinct series of enactments, savouring,... | |
| 1812 - 470 Seiten
...productions; none of the superstitious deliration, the miserable incoherence, the tremendous non teguiturs and eternal repetitions of those oracular performances;...adulation, the accumulated epithets, and fatiguing self praise of other eastern despotisms; but a calm, concise, and distinct series of enactments, savouring,... | |
| Sir George Thomas Staunton - 1822 - 458 Seiten
...— none of the superstitious deliration, the miserable incoherence, the tremendous non ser/uiturs and eternal repetitions of those oracular performances...self-praise of other Eastern despotisms; — but a calm, concise, and distinct series of enactments, savouring throughout of practical judgment and European... | |
| Sir George Thomas Staunton - 1828 - 364 Seiten
...Review. " It is," says the Reviewer, " a calm, concise, and distinct series of enactments, savoring throughout of practical judgment and European good...improved notions of expediency in this country, in genera] approaching to them more nearly than the codes of most other nations. When we turn, indeed,... | |
| Sir George Thomas Staunton - 1828 - 364 Seiten
...*-'>,•" " It is," says the Reviewer, " a calm, concise, and distinct series of enactments, savoring throughout of practical judgment and European good sense ; and, if not always conformable to our 270 improved notions of expediency in this country, in general approaching' to them more nearly than... | |
| Enoch Cobb Wines - 1839 - 112 Seiten
...various provisions, and the plainness and moderation of the language in which they are expressed. It is a clear, concise, and distinct series of enactments,...throughout of practical judgment and European good sense. When we turn from the ravings of the Zendavesta, or the Puranas, to the tone of sense and of business... | |
| Nathan Dunn, Philadelphia Museum of Art - 1839 - 140 Seiten
...various provisions, and the plainness and moderation of the language in which they are expressed. It is a clear, concise, and distinct series of enactments,...throughout of practical judgment and European good sense. When we turn from the ravings of the Zendavesta, or the Puranas, to the tone of sense and of business... | |
| Nathan Dunn - 1839 - 158 Seiten
...various provisions, and the plainness and moderation of the language in which they are expressed. It is a clear, concise, and distinct series of enactments,...throughout of practical judgment and European good sense. When we turn from the ravings of the Zendavesta, or the Puranas, to the tone of sense and of business... | |
| 1841 - 908 Seiten
...penal code of China, a learned writer in the Edinburgh Review has said, that " it savors throughout of European good sense, and, if not always conformable...our improved notions of expediency in this country, it in general approaches to them more nearly than the codes of most other nations." It recognizes the... | |
| Joseph Sturge - 1842 - 360 Seiten
...various provisions, and the plainness and moderation of the language in which they are expressed. It is a clear, concise, and distinct series of enactments,...throughout of practical judgment and European good sense. When we turn from the ravings of the Zendavesta, or the Puranas, to the tone of sense and of business... | |
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