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... opinions . With Arabic he was already familiar , and he therefore required no assistance in his studies of Mahommedan law ; but for the purpose of mastering the virtually unknown language in which the Hindu law was contained , he found ...
... opinions . With Arabic he was already familiar , and he therefore required no assistance in his studies of Mahommedan law ; but for the purpose of mastering the virtually unknown language in which the Hindu law was contained , he found ...
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... opinions of Sir William Jones produced great effects both in the East and in the West . One result which followed from them I must pass by with notice very unequal to its practical importance . The Anglo- Indian Courts accepted from the ...
... opinions of Sir William Jones produced great effects both in the East and in the West . One result which followed from them I must pass by with notice very unequal to its practical importance . The Anglo- Indian Courts accepted from the ...
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... opinion had a very slender foundation , for it is probable that at the end of the last century large masses of the Hindu population had not so much as heard of Manu , 1 and knew little or nothing of the legal rules supposed to rest ...
... opinion had a very slender foundation , for it is probable that at the end of the last century large masses of the Hindu population had not so much as heard of Manu , 1 and knew little or nothing of the legal rules supposed to rest ...
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... opinion is the result of a test first applied by Professor Max Müller , and now univer- sally accepted by Sanscritists as conclusive . The law - book of Manu is in verse , and Verse is one of the expedients for lessening the burden ...
... opinion is the result of a test first applied by Professor Max Müller , and now univer- sally accepted by Sanscritists as conclusive . The law - book of Manu is in verse , and Verse is one of the expedients for lessening the burden ...
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... opinions now considered orthodox would be bound to claim for it an indefinitely high antiquity . At the same time , its audacious pretension to be of divine origin is out- done in some of the writings now shown to be older , for the so ...
... opinions now considered orthodox would be bound to claim for it an indefinitely high antiquity . At the same time , its audacious pretension to be of divine origin is out- done in some of the writings now shown to be older , for the so ...
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