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Pagina 15
... seem to have had a special habit of glossing , and you may have heard that the glosses written by early Irish monks between the lines or on the margin of manuscripts belonging to religious houses on the Continent had much to do with the ...
... seem to have had a special habit of glossing , and you may have heard that the glosses written by early Irish monks between the lines or on the margin of manuscripts belonging to religious houses on the Continent had much to do with the ...
Pagina 16
... seems probable that each tract was the property , and that it sets forth the special legal doctrines , of some body of persons who , in modern legal phrase , had perpetual succession , a Family or Law School ; there is ample evidence of ...
... seems probable that each tract was the property , and that it sets forth the special legal doctrines , of some body of persons who , in modern legal phrase , had perpetual succession , a Family or Law School ; there is ample evidence of ...
Pagina 28
... seem to have conceived the Druids as a class of heathen priests who had once practised magical arts . The enchanters of Pharaoh are , for instance , called the Egyptian Druids , in the Preface to the Senchus Mor . The point of view seems ...
... seem to have conceived the Druids as a class of heathen priests who had once practised magical arts . The enchanters of Pharaoh are , for instance , called the Egyptian Druids , in the Preface to the Senchus Mor . The point of view seems ...
Pagina 33
... seems to have been identified with poetry . The chief Druid of Cæsar meets us on the very threshold of the Senchus Mor , in the person of Dubhthach Mac ua Lugair , the royal poet of Erin , the Brehon who was chosen by St. Patrick to ...
... seems to have been identified with poetry . The chief Druid of Cæsar meets us on the very threshold of the Senchus Mor , in the person of Dubhthach Mac ua Lugair , the royal poet of Erin , the Brehon who was chosen by St. Patrick to ...
Pagina 35
... seem to me difficult to connect the results of these tendencies with other known phenomena of ancient society . There is much reason to believe that the Tribe - Chief , or King , whom the earliest Aryan records show us standing by the ...
... seem to me difficult to connect the results of these tendencies with other known phenomena of ancient society . There is much reason to believe that the Tribe - Chief , or King , whom the earliest Aryan records show us standing by the ...
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Lectures on the Early History of Institutions, Volume 1875 Henry Sumner Maine Volledige weergave - 1875 |
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Pagina 348 - If a determinate human superior, not in the habit of obedience to a like superior, receive habitual obedience from the bulk of a given society, that determinate superior is sovereign in that society...
Pagina 371 - Law, in its most general and comprehensive sense, signifies a rule of action ; and is applied indiscriminately to all kinds of action, whether animate or inanimate, rational or irrational.
Pagina 18 - It is a rule of right unwritten, but delivered by tradition from one to another, in which oftentimes there appeareth great show of equity, in determining the right between party and party, but in many things repugning quite both to God's law and man's...
Pagina 22 - It is better to do so," said Patrick. It was then that all the professors of the sciences in Erin were assembled, and each of them exhibited his art before Patrick, in the presence of every chief in Erin. It was then...
Pagina 300 - Notice precedes every distress in the case of the inferior grades, except it be by persons of distinction or upon persons of distinction. Fasting precedes distress in their case. He who does not give a pledge to fasting is an evader of all ; he who disregards all things shall not be paid by God or man.
Pagina 359 - A despot with a disturbed brain is the sole conceivable example of such Sovereignty. The vast mass of influences, which we may call, for shortness, moral, perpetually shapes, limits, or forbids the actual direction of the forces of society by its Sovereign.
Pagina 322 - Also property which she may have acquired by inheritance, purchase, partition, seizure, or finding, are denominated by Menu, and the rest, woman's property.