 | Theology - 1836 - 532 pages
...code of laws, founded on universally admitted abstract principles of justice, and at the same time, scrupulously adapted to the local circumstances of...religion, manners, usages, and feelings of the people. The advice of the 6hief justice was adopted by the government. Accordingly, the most learned and celebrated... | |
 | George Turnour - Pali literature - 1836 - 390 pages
...universally admitted, and therefore universally applicahle, ahstract principles of justice, should he scrupulously adapted to the local circumstances of...the necessary steps for framing such a code. Having puhlicly informed all the natives of the island of the wise and heneficial ohject which his majesty's... | |
 | Mahānāma, George Turnour - Buddhism - 1837 - 446 pages
...a constant intercourse, both literally and official, for many years, with the natives of every cast and of every religious persuasion in the country,...publicly informed all the natives of the island of the wise and beneficial object which his majesty's government had in view, I called upon the most learned... | |
 | Mahānāma - Buddhism - 1837 - 460 pages
...use, a special code of laws, which at the same time that it was founded upon the universallyadmitted, and therefore universally applicable, abstract principles...publicly informed all the natives of the island of the wise and beneficial object which his majesty's government had in view, I called upon the most learned... | |
 | Religion - 1836 - 1048 pages
...code of laws, founded on universally admitted abstract principles of justice, and at the same time, scrupulously adapted to the local circumstances of...religion, manners, usages, and feelings of the people. The advice of the chief justice was adopted by the government. Accordingly, the most learned and celebrated... | |
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I felt it to be my duty to submit it, as my official opinion, to his majesty's government, that it was absolutely necessary, in order to secure for the natives of Ceylon a popular and a really efficient administration of justice, to compile, for their... 