| Sir Henry James Sumner MAINE - 1861 - 434 sayfa
...societies begins to make itself felt. It is only with the progressive societies that we are con- cerned, and nothing is more remarkable than their extreme...embodiment in some permanent record. One set of usages has occaCHAP. ii. STATIONARY AND PROGRESSIVE SOCIETIES. 23 sionally been violently overthrown and superseded... | |
| Henry Sumner Maine - 1834 - 484 sayfa
...surrounds him is a rare exception in the history of the world. The tone of thought common among us, all GUI hopes, fears, and speculations, would be materially...another; here and there a primitive code, pretending to supernatural origin, has been greatly extended, ani distorted into the most surprising forms, by the... | |
| John Francis Arundell Baron Arundell of Wardour - 1872 - 476 sayfa
...human life. It ia indisputable thas much the greatest part of mankind has never shown a particular desire that its civil institutions should be improved...them by their embodiment in some permanent record There has been a material civilisation, but instead of the civilisation expanding the law, the law... | |
| John Francis Arundell Baron Arundell of Wardour - 1872 - 476 sayfa
...particular desire that its civil institutions should be improved since the moment when ex-, ternal completeness was first given to them by their embodiment in some permanent record There has been a material civilisation, but instead of the civilisation expanding the law, the law... | |
| Henry Sumner Maine - 1864 - 484 sayfa
...if we had vividly before us the relation of the progressive races to the totality of human life. Ft is indisputable that much the greatest part of mankind...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 - 1876 - 456 sayfa
...concerned, and nothing is more remarkable than their extreme fewness. In spite of overwhelming evidence, jt is most difficult for a citizen of Western Europe...occasionally been violently overthrown and superseded l<y another ; here and there a primitive code, pretending to a supernatural origin, has been greatly... | |
| Medico-Legal Society, Medico-Legal Society of New York - 1886 - 628 sayfa
...Law, that " the stationary condition of the human race is the rule, the progressive, the exception. It is indisputable that much the greatest part of...them by their embodiment in some permanent record " The first of the cases above mentioned to which I wish to call your attention in this connection... | |
| Sir Henry Sumner Maine - 1885 - 324 sayfa
...electric telegraphs, or democratic governments. In spite of overwhelming evidence (I wrote in 1861), it is most difficult for a citizen of Western Europe...extended and distorted into the most surprising forms ; but, except in a small section of the world, there has been nothing like the gradual amelioration... | |
| Sir Henry Sumner Maine - 1885 - 324 sayfa
...electric telegraphs, or democratic governments. In spite of overwhelming evidence (I wrote in 1861), it is most difficult for a citizen of Western Europe...extended and dis-torted into the most surprising forms ; but, except in a small section of the world, there has been nothing like the gradual amelioration... | |
| 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 - 1885 - 582 sayfa
...mankind has never shown a particle of desire that its civil institutions should be improved, proved, since the moment when external completeness was first...extended and distorted into the most surprising forms ; but, except in a small section of the world, there has been nothing like the gradual amelioration... | |
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