| Sir Edward Coke - 1812 - Страниц: 642
...with him. That which we have formerly written, that this book is the ornament of the common law, and the most perfect and absolute work that ever was written in any humane science ; and in another place, that which I affirmed and took upon me to maintain against all... | |
| Sir Edward Coke - 1817 - Страниц: 950
...Aristotle. That which we have formerly written, that this book is the ornament of the common law, and the most' perfect and absolute work that ever was written in any human science ; and in another place, that which I affirmed and took upon me to maintain against all opposites whatsoever,... | |
| Joseph Priestley - 1826 - Страниц: 652
...by acts of parliament, and others are disused and grown obsolete. Sir Edward Coke says that this is the most perfect and absolute work that ever was written in any human science. The first volume of Coke's Institutes is only a translation and comment upon this book. Sir Edward's... | |
| Thomas Moore (writer on Devon.) - 1829 - Страниц: 312
...book," he says in his Preface to his Commentaries upon it, " is the ornament of the common law, and the most perfect and absolute work that ever was written in any human science." — " It is a work of as absolute perfection of its kind, and as free from error, as any book that... | |
| Lives - 1833 - Страниц: 588
...let a year pass without reading it through. Coke himself calls it " the ornament of the common law, the most perfect and absolute work that ever was written in any human science ;" and if his testimony be rejected as partial or exaggerated, no one will refuse to acknowledge that... | |
| 1833 - Страниц: 548
...Tenures, •written in the reign of Edward 4, and which Coke calls " the ornament of the common law, the most perfect and absolute work that ever was written in any human science." Sir William Jones described it as " the English Lawyer's great master," anc in its composition, remarkable... | |
| Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain) - 1833 - Страниц: 584
...let a year pass without reading it through. Coke himself calls it " the ornament of the common law, the most perfect and absolute work that ever was written in any human science ;" and if his testimony be rejected as partial or exaggerated, no one will refuse to acknowledge that... | |
| Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain) - 1833 - Страниц: 606
...let a year pass without reading it through. Coke himself calls it " the ornament of the common law, the most perfect and absolute work that ever was written in any human science;" and if his testimony be rejected as partial or exaggerated, no one will refuse to acknowledge that... | |
| Englishmen - 1836 - Страниц: 254
...ever known to be written of any human learning;" and that it is "the ornament of the common law, and the most perfect and absolute work that ever was written in any human science."1 It is supposed that this treatise was finished but a short time previous to his death, which... | |
| Sir Thomas Littleton - 1841 - Страниц: 794
...written and published by Thomas Littleton, a grave and learned is the ornament of the common law, and the most perfect and absolute work that ever was written in any human science; and that it is a work of as absolute perfection in its kind, and as free from error, as any book that... | |
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