 | 1861 - 882 sayfa
...discuss more particularly the contents of Mr. Maine's volume. According to the Preface, his chief object is ' to indicate some of the earliest ideas of mankind...reflected in ancient law, and to point out the relation of these ideas to modern thought." This modest description of the object of the work does scant justice... | |
 | Achille Auguste Cazin - 1869 - 334 sayfa
...volume, crown 8vo, cloth, ....... #3 oo The chief object of this volume, as defined by its author, is " to indicate some of the earliest ideas of mankind...out the relation of those ideas to modern thought." In the Introduction to the American edition the distinguished jurist, Professor Dwight, states that... | |
 | Theodor Mommsen - 1870 - 618 sayfa
...York. One volume, crown 8vo, cloth, $3 oo The chief object of this volume, as defined by its author, is " to indicate some of the earliest ideas of mankind...out the relation of those ideas to modern thought." In the Introduction to the American edition the distinguished jurist, Professor Dwight, states that... | |
 | Fulgence Marion - 1870 - 320 sayfa
...volume, crown Svo, cloth, . . . . . . $3 oo The chief object of this volume, as defined by its author, is " to indicate some of the earliest ideas of mankind...out the relation of those ideas to modern thought." In the Introduction to the American edition the distinguished jurist, Professor Dwight, states that... | |
 | Charles Kendall Adams - 1882 - 706 sayfa
...have ever been made than those incorporated in this volume. The object of Sir Henry Maine has been " to indicate some of the earliest ideas of mankind...out the relation of those ideas to modern thought." The work consists of ten chapters, the first four of which are devoted to the philosophy of legal history... | |
 | Henry Sumner Maine - 1883 - 446 sayfa
...published a work (on ' Ancient Law ') which I described in the preface as having for its chief object to ' indicate some of the earliest ideas of mankind...reflected in Ancient Law, and to point out the relation of these ideas to modern thought.' It was not part of my object to determine the absolute origin of human... | |
 | Birmingham Public Libraries - 1885 - 220 sayfa
...one of these books, that one should be " Ancient Law," the chief object of which, the author says, is " to indicate some of the earliest ideas • of...they are reflected in ancient law, and to point out those ideas to modern thought." To understand what that means you might, as commercial people say,... | |
 | 1909 - 672 sayfa
...revealed wonders. Sir Henry Sumner Maine, whose "Ancient Law" appeared in 1861, said in his preface that "The chief object of the following pages is to indicate...out the relation of those ideas to modern thought." In the masterly demonstration that followed he showed that legal ideas and institutions have a real... | |
 | Charles Kendall Adams - 1888 - 772 sayfa
...have ever been made than those incorporated in this volume. The object of Sir Henry Maine has been " to indicate some of the earliest ideas of mankind...out the relation of those ideas to modern thought." The work consists of ten chapters, the first four of which are devoted to the philosophy of legal history... | |
 | Sir Henry Sumner Maine, Henry Sumner Maine - 1890 - 422 sayfa
...published a work (on ' Ancient Law') which I described in the preface as having for its chief object to ' indicate some of the earliest ideas of mankind...reflected in Ancient Law, and to point out the relation of these ideas to modern thought.' It was not part of my object to determine the absolute origin of human... | |
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The chief object of the following pages is to indicate some of the earliest ideas of mankind, as they are reflected in ancient law, and to point out the relation of those ideas to modern thought. 
