 | Enos Bronson - 1811 - 456 sivua
...general approaching to them more nearly than the codes of most other nations. When we pass, indeed, 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 drivelings... | |
 | 1812 - 470 sivua
...general approaching to them more nearly than the codes of most other nations. When we pass, indeed, 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 drivelings... | |
 | Sir George Thomas Staunton - 1822 - 458 sivua
...general approaching to them more nearly than the codes of most other nations. When we pass, indeed, 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... | |
 | Sir John Francis Davis - 1836 - 446 sivua
...justice towards them. The able critique on the code, which we have already quoted, proceeds to say, " 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 drive!lings... | |
 | John Francis Davis - 1836 - 420 sivua
...The able critique on the code, which we have aiready quoted, proceeds to say, " When we turn frotn 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... | |
 | 1837 - 1822 sivua
...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...to the exercise of an improved understanding; and redunaant and minute as these laws are, in many particulars, «u scarcely know any European code that... | |
 | 1837 - 1040 sivua
...other Asiatic systems has been made by an able critic in the ' Edinburgh Review." ' When (says he) 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... | |
 | 1837
...other Asiatic systems has been made by an able critic in the ' Edinburgh Review.' ' When (says he) 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... | |
 | Nathan Dunn, Philadelphia Museum of Art - 1839 - 140 sivua
...distinct series of enactments, savouring throughout of practical judgment and European good sense. 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... | |
 | Nathan Dunn - 1839 - 158 sivua
...distinct series of enactments, savouring throughout of practical judgment and European good sense. 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... | |
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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... 
