 | 1875 - 540 pàgines
...Corruptisslma republica, plurimae leges. Lat. TACITUS. — "When the state is most corrupt, then are the laws most multiplied." The relaxed morals of a people may...restraints which it is found necessary to impose. Cortes. Span. — "The PARLIAMENT of Spain." Corvee. Fr. — "Base service, statute labor, contribution... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1876 - 768 pàgines
...blessed part of our law be eludible by power and artifice, we shall have little reason to boast. SWIFT. When the state is most corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied. TACITUS. In making laws, princes must have regard io the public dispositions, to the affections and... | |
 | James Comper Gray - 1878 - 404 pàgines
...1040. The English laws punish vice ; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue."— Goldsmith. " When the state is most corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied."— Tacitus. с W/iwell. BC or. 1037. David's messengers to Ammon ill-treated a "A Jewish tradition relates... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1880 - 772 pàgines
...blessed part of GUI' law lie eludible by power and artifice, we shall have little reason to boast. SWIFT. l, becomes its instrument. TACITUS. In making laws, princes must have regard to the public dispositions, to the affections and... | |
 | Jehiel Keeler Hoyt - 1882 - 914 pàgines
...heedless bishops, And there a chancellor in embryo. «. SHENSTONE — The ¡schoolmistress. St. 23. rich the time to v. TACITUS. No man e'er felt the halter draw. With good opinion of the law . w. JOHN THUMBULL — McFingal... | |
 | Otis Henry Tiffany - 1883 - 954 pàgines
...and the glorious uncertainty of it is of mair use to the professors than the justice of it. (Macklin. When the state is most corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied. ( Taeitui. What stronger breast-plate than a heart untainted? Thrice is he arm'd that hath his quarrel... | |
 | Maturin Murray Ballou - 1894 - 604 pàgines
...to, from the shock and the recoil that must inevitably follow their explosion. — Colton. LAW. LAW. When the state is most corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied. — Tacitus. To embarrass justice by multiplicity of laws, or to hazard it by confidence in judges,... | |
 | 1897 - 586 pàgines
...United States. But there is danger of relying on the law for whnt depends on character. Tacitus said : " When the state is most corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied. " They may, however, also bo multiplied when evils are recognized which were formerly ignored, or when... | |
 | American Bar Association - 1900 - 692 pàgines
...authority of legislative enactments." The evil is no new one. In days of old, Tacitus declared : " When the state is most corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied." " The tendency to deal with every evil that appears in society, by coercive legislation" says Lecky, that... | |
 | 1902 - 502 pàgines
...Relating to Contagious Ophthalmia: We are indebted to the Roman historiam, Tacitus, for the statement that "when the state is most corrupt then the laws are most multiplied." Whatever may have been the exact meaning of this remark, if we are able to judge of the moral status... | |
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When the state is most corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied." — The relaxed morals of a people may be estimated in some degree from the legal restraints which it is found necessary to impose. 
