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... remarkable characteristics on which I am desirous of dwelling . It is not at the same time to be supposed that the combination is peculiar to the Hindus . There is no system of recorded law , literally from China to Peru , which , when ...
... remarkable characteristics on which I am desirous of dwelling . It is not at the same time to be supposed that the combination is peculiar to the Hindus . There is no system of recorded law , literally from China to Peru , which , when ...
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... remarkable distribution of life runs through the whole series of sacred legal writings , and only disappears when they become mere law - books . The Brahman alone teaches , but the entire youth of the three higher castes , Brahmans ...
... remarkable distribution of life runs through the whole series of sacred legal writings , and only disappears when they become mere law - books . The Brahman alone teaches , but the entire youth of the three higher castes , Brahmans ...
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... remarkable , as disclosing the true secret of the hold of the sacred literature on large portions of the Hindu race , and of the respect paid by it to the teachers of the race , the Brahmans . For the education of the young Hindu is not ...
... remarkable , as disclosing the true secret of the hold of the sacred literature on large portions of the Hindu race , and of the respect paid by it to the teachers of the race , the Brahmans . For the education of the young Hindu is not ...
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... remarkable thing is , that no one of these writers seems to feel , what would be our doubt , whether anybody could be got to per- form the severer penances . How then does what we should call Law - that is , law , civil or criminal ...
... remarkable thing is , that no one of these writers seems to feel , what would be our doubt , whether anybody could be got to per- form the severer penances . How then does what we should call Law - that is , law , civil or criminal ...
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... remarkable , not only for the legal doctrine , which ( though the writer believes in Ordeals ) is on the whole extremely mo- dern , but for the elevation of moral tone displayed in its language on the subject of true and false wit- ness ...
... remarkable , not only for the legal doctrine , which ( though the writer believes in Ordeals ) is on the whole extremely mo- dern , but for the elevation of moral tone displayed in its language on the subject of true and false wit- ness ...
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