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Page 60
... persons , and for widely different purposes . The object of their civil laws is to define and illustrate the doctrine of personal rights ; to govern their intercourse in the common transactions of human life ; to extend their influence ...
... persons , and for widely different purposes . The object of their civil laws is to define and illustrate the doctrine of personal rights ; to govern their intercourse in the common transactions of human life ; to extend their influence ...
Page 65
... person from the trials of ordeal in the dark ages . What innocent wife could walk over burning plough - shares ; steep her hands or feet in burning oil ; or float , when fettered , in the horse - pond ? The poor Jewess had an ordeal ...
... person from the trials of ordeal in the dark ages . What innocent wife could walk over burning plough - shares ; steep her hands or feet in burning oil ; or float , when fettered , in the horse - pond ? The poor Jewess had an ordeal ...
Page 68
... person was drowned , was ordered to be filled up under the inspection of the coroner . And among the Athenians , " whatever was the cause of man's death by falling upon him , was exterminated , or cast out of the dominions of the ...
... person was drowned , was ordered to be filled up under the inspection of the coroner . And among the Athenians , " whatever was the cause of man's death by falling upon him , was exterminated , or cast out of the dominions of the ...
Page 72
... persons of the com- munity . It were well if every crowded city had as good a system of sanitary regulations as the camp of Israel . The uniform tendency of their whole system of jurisprudence was to promote a good understand- ing ...
... persons of the com- munity . It were well if every crowded city had as good a system of sanitary regulations as the camp of Israel . The uniform tendency of their whole system of jurisprudence was to promote a good understand- ing ...
Page 74
... person was permitted to approach the altar of Diana , who had touched a dead body , or beer . exposed to other causes of impurity , and that the laws of Athens admitted no man to the priesthood who had any blemish upon his person ...
... person was permitted to approach the altar of Diana , who had touched a dead body , or beer . exposed to other causes of impurity , and that the laws of Athens admitted no man to the priesthood who had any blemish upon his person ...
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