 | Joseph Sturge - 1842 - 360 sayfa
...distinct series of enactments, savouring throughout of practical judgment and European good sense. When we turn from the ravings of the Zendavesta, or...to be passing from darkness to light — from the drivellings of dotage to the exercise of an improved understanding ; and, redundant and minute as these... | |
 | Nathan Dunn, William B. Langdon - 1842 - 338 sayfa
...distinct, series of enactments, savouring throughout of practical judgment and European good sense. When we turn from the ravings of the Zendavesta, or...the tone of sense and of business of this Chinese code, we seem to be passing from darkness to light — from the drivellings of dotage, to the exercise... | |
 | Nathan Dunn, William B. Langdon - 1842 - 212 sayfa
...distinct series of enactments, savouring throughout of practical judgment and European good sense. When we turn from the ravings of the Zendavesta, or...the tone of sense and of business of this Chinese code, we seem to be passing from darkness to light — from the drivellings of dotage, to the exercise... | |
 | William B. Langdon, Nathan Dunn - 1843 - 176 sayfa
...distinct series of enactments, savouring throughout of practical judgment and European good sense. When we turn from the ravings of the Zendavesta, or...the tone of sense and of business of this Chinese code, we seem to be passing from darkness to light — from the drivellings of dotage, to the exercise... | |
 | Samuel Wells Williams - 1848 - 648 sayfa
...favorable comparison has been made in a review of Staunton's translation in the Edinburgh Review : " When we turn from the ravings of the Zendavesta or the Puranas to the tone of sense and business in this Chinese collection, it is like passing from darkness to light ; from the drivellings... | |
 | Sir George Thomas Staunton - 1850 - 518 sayfa
...nearly than the codes of most other nations. When we puss, indeed, from the ravings of the Zendaresta, or the Puranas, to the tone of sense and of business of tliis Chinese collection, we seem to be passing from darkness to light, — from the drivellings of... | |
 | Sir John Francis Davis - 1851 - 582 sayfa
...anxiety of that cautious government to prevent the recurrence of the trouble which it has in formei times experienced, from the embarrassing claims and...to be passing from darkness to light — from the drivellings of dotage to the exercise of an improved understanding ; and redundant and minute as these... | |
 | Harvey Newcomb - 1854 - 874 sayfa
...Edinburgh Review, speaking of Sir George Stanton's translation of the Chinese Code of Law, says, " When we turn from the ravings of the Zendavesta or the Puranas, to the tone of sense and business in this Chinese collection, it is like passing from darkness to light, and from the drivelings... | |
 | Sir John Francis Davis - 1857 - 506 sayfa
...being a much greater offence to owe money to a foreigner than to a native. The true reason of this was the anxiety of that cautious government to prevent...to be passing from darkness to light — from the drivellings of dotage to the exercise of an improved understanding ; and redundant and minute as these... | |
 | Robert Samuel Maclay - 1861 - 404 sayfa
...manufactories, etc. A writer in the Edinburg Review has pronounced the following encomium on this code : " When we turn from the ravings of the Zendavesta or the Puranas, to the tone of sense and business in this Chinese collection, it is like passing from darkness to light ; from the drivelings... | |
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When we turn from the ravings of the Zendavesta, or the Puranas, to the tone of sense and of business of this Chinese collection, we seem to be passing from darkness to light — from the drivellings of dotage to the exercise of an improved understanding... 
