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... or very ancient usages of mankind , and of the ideas asso- ciated with these usages . In his first four chapters he attempts , with the help of the invaluable series of Sacred Books of the East , ' translated under PREFACE. ...
... or very ancient usages of mankind , and of the ideas asso- ciated with these usages . In his first four chapters he attempts , with the help of the invaluable series of Sacred Books of the East , ' translated under PREFACE. ...
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... ideas which profoundly influenced the development of what is known as the Hindu law are here extremely slight ; and few things can be more instructive to the legal archæologist than the comparison of the Punjab rules with those worked ...
... ideas which profoundly influenced the development of what is known as the Hindu law are here extremely slight ; and few things can be more instructive to the legal archæologist than the comparison of the Punjab rules with those worked ...
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... ideas of worship and ancestry , coalescing , as they con- stantly did , in the Grecian mind . ' A still nearer analogy is one which , like many others , occurs in the ancient legal literature of the Irish . ' Literary foster- age , ' I ...
... ideas of worship and ancestry , coalescing , as they con- stantly did , in the Grecian mind . ' A still nearer analogy is one which , like many others , occurs in the ancient legal literature of the Irish . ' Literary foster- age , ' I ...
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... ideas of its priestly authors . But as the mass of this literature grows through the additions made to it by successive expositors , it gradually specialises itself , and subjects , at first mixed together under vague general ...
... ideas of its priestly authors . But as the mass of this literature grows through the additions made to it by successive expositors , it gradually specialises itself , and subjects , at first mixed together under vague general ...
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... ideas in the minimum limit of age which has been made the condition of a seat in the artificial Second Chambers which have been constructed over most of the civil- ised West as supposed counterparts of the English House of Lords . But ...
... ideas in the minimum limit of age which has been made the condition of a seat in the artificial Second Chambers which have been constructed over most of the civil- ised West as supposed counterparts of the English House of Lords . But ...
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