 For there are in nature certain fountains of justice, whence all civil laws are derived but as streams; and like as waters do take tinctures and tastes from the soils through which they run, so do civil laws vary according to the regions and governments...  Albany Law Journal - Page 3261879Full view - About this book
 | England - 1842 - 850 pages
...spring of legislation which Lord Bacon has described with such magnificence : — " For there are in nature certain fountains of justice whence all civil...and tastes from the soils through which they run, so the civil laws vary according to the regions and governments where they are planted, though they proceed... | |
 | Samuel Phelps - Great Britain - 1818 - 634 pages
...the law ; for the wisdom of a law-maker is one thing, and that of a lawyer is another. There are in nature certain fountains of justice, whence all civil laws are derived; but as streams, or waters, take their tinctures and tastes from the soils through which they run, so civil laws vary... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 648 pages
...ought to be law; for the wisdom of a law -maker is one, and of a lawyer is another. For there are in nature certain fountains of justice, whence all civil...which they run, so do civil laws vary according to the regions and governments where they are planted, though they proceed from the same fountains. Again,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1824 - 642 pages
...ought to be Jaw ; for the wisdom of a law-maker is one, and of a lawyer is another. For there are in nature certain fountains of justice, whence all civil...which they run, so do civil laws vary according to the regions and governments where they are planted, though they proceed from the same fountains. Again,... | |
 | Thomas Hancock - Instinct - 1824 - 584 pages
...instead of seed; but he plainly alludes to an original not a factitious source of law. " For there are in nature certain fountains of Justice, whence all civil...which they run, so do civil laws vary according to the regions and governments where they are planted, though they proceed from the same fountains."* Causabon,... | |
 | Thomas Hancock - 1824 - 574 pages
...tinctures and tastes from the soils through which they run, so do civil laws vary according to the regions and governments where they are planted, though they proceed from the same fountains."* Causabon, who is styled by Lord Shaftesbury, "one of the greatest and most learned of moderns," expresses... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Logic - 1825 - 432 pages
...ought to be law : for the wisdom of a lawmaker is one, and of a lawyer is another. For there are in nature certain fountains of justice, whence all civil...which they run, so do civil laws vary according to the regions and governments where they are planted, though they proceed 'from the same fountains. Again,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1834 - 784 pages
...ought to be law ; for the wisdom of a law-maker is one, and of a lawyer is another. For there are in nature certain fountains of justice, whence all civil...which they run, so do civil laws vary according to the regions and governments where they are planted, though they proceed from the same fountains. Again,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 524 pages
...ought to be law : for the wisdom of a lawmaker is one, and of a lawyer is another. For there are in nature certain fountains of justice, whence all civil...which they run, so do civil laws vary according to the regions and governments where they are planted, though, they proceed from the same fountains. Again,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1826 - 626 pages
...ought to be law ; for the wisdom of a law-maker is one, and of a lawyer is another. For there are in nature certain fountains of justice, whence all civil...which they run, so do civil laws vary according to the regions and governments where they are planted, though they proceed from the same fountains. Again,... | |
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