 | Henry Sumner Maine - Anthropology - 1861 - 432 pages
...completeness was first given to them by their embodiment in some permanent record. One set of usages has occasionally been violently overthrown and superseded...extended, and distorted into the most surprising forms, by the perversity of sacerdotal commentators; but, except in a small section of the world, there has... | |
 | Henry Sumner Maine - Anthropology - 1861 - 432 pages
...completeness was first given to them by their embodiment in some permanent record. -One set of usages has occasionally been violently overthrown and superseded...extended, and distorted into the most surprising forms, by the perversity of sacerdotal commentators; but, except in a small section of the world, there has... | |
 | Sir Henry James Sumner MAINE - Comparative law - 1861 - 434 pages
...permanent record. One set of usages has occaCHAP. ii. STATIONARY AND PROGRESSIVE SOCIETIES. 23 sionally been violently overthrown and superseded by another...extended, and distorted into the most surprising forms, by the perversity of sacerdotal commentators; but, except in a small section of the world, there has... | |
 | Henry Sumner Maine - Anthropology - 1867 - 494 pages
...completeness was first given to them by their embodiment in some permanent . record. One set of usages has occasionally been violently overthrown and superseded...extended, and distorted into the most surprising forms, by the perversity of sacerdotal commentators ; but, except in a small section of the world, there has... | |
 | Henry Sumner Maine - Anthropology - 1864 - 484 pages
...completeness was first given to them by their embodiment in some permanent record. One set of usages has occasionally been violently overthrown and superseded...another; here and there a primitive code, pretending to supernatural origin, has been greatly extended, am distorted into the most surprising forms, by the... | |
 | Henry Sumner Maine - Comparative law - 1874 - 452 pages
...completeness was first given to them by their embodiment in some permanent record. One set of usages has occasionally been violently overthrown and superseded...pretending to a supernatural origin, has been greatly extendedr and distorted into the most surprising forms, by the perversity of sacerdotal commentators... | |
 | Henry Sumner Maine - Anthropology - 1876 - 456 pages
...some permanent record. One set of usages has occasionally been violently overthrown and superseded l<y another ; here and there a primitive code, pretending...extended, and distorted into the most surprising forms, by the perversity of sacerdotal commentators ; but, except in a small section of the world, there has... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1885 - 582 pages
...completeness was first given to them by their embodiment in some permanent record. One set of usages has occasionally been violently overthrown and superseded...civilization expanding the law, the law has limited the civilization.' * To the fact that the enthusiasm for change is comparatively rare, must be added... | |
 | Sir Henry Sumner Maine - North Carolina - 1885 - 324 pages
...completeness was first given to them by their embodiment in some permanent record. One set of usages has occasionally been violently overthrown and super-seded...amelioration of a legal system. There has been material civilisation, but instead of the civilisation expanding the law, the law has limited the civilisation.... | |
 | Sir Henry Sumner Maine - North Carolina - 1885 - 324 pages
...completeness was first given to them by their embodiment in some permanent record. One set of usages has occasionally been violently overthrown and superseded...amelioration of a legal system. There has been material civilisation, but instead of the civilisation expanding the law, the law has limited the civilisation.... | |
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It is indisputable that much the greatest part of mankind has never shown a particle of desire that its civil institutions should be improved, since the moment when external completeness was first given to them by their embodiment in some permanent record.... 
