 | Enos Bronson - 1811 - 456 頁
...turgid adulation, the accumulated epithets, and fatiguing self praise of other eastern despqtisms; but a calm, -concise, and distinct series of enactments,...seem to be passing from darkness to light; from the drivelings of dotage to the exercises of an improved understanding. And, redundant and absurdly minute... | |
 | 1812 - 470 頁
...performances; nothing even of the turgid adulation, the accumulated epithets, and fatiguing self praise of other eastern despotisms; but a calm, concise,...seem to be passing from darkness to light; from the drivelings of dotage to the exercises of an improved understanding. And, redundant and absurdly minute... | |
 | sir John Francis Davis (1st bart.) - 1836 - 390 頁
...them. The able critique on the code, which we have already quoted, proceeds to say, " When we turn from the ravings of the Zendavesta, or the Puranas,...darkness to light ; from the drivellings of dotage to the exercise of an improved understanding : and redundant and minute as these laws are, in many particulars,... | |
 | John Francis Davis - 1836 - 420 頁
...The able critique on the code, which we have aiready quoted, proceeds to say, " When we turn frotn the ravings of the Zendavesta, or the Puranas, to...darkness to light ; from the drivellings of dotage to the exercise of an improved understanding : and redundant and minute aa these laws are, in many particulars,... | |
 | Sir John Francis Davis - 1836 - 446 頁
...them. The able critique on the code, which we have already quoted, proceeds to say, " When we turn from the ravings of the Zendavesta, or the Puranas,...to be passing from darkness to light — from the drive!lings of dotage to the exercise of an improved understanding : and redundant and minute as these... | |
 | 1837
...Asiatic systems has been made by an able critic in the ' Edinburgh Review.' ' When (says he) we turn from the ravings of the Zendavesta, or the Puranas,...darkness to light ; from the drivellings of dotage to the exercise of an improved understanding ; and redundant and minute as these laws are, in many particulars,... | |
 | 1837 - 1822 頁
...Asiatic systems has been made by an able critic in the ' Edinburgh Review." ' When (says he) we turn from the ravings of the Zendavesta, or the Puranas,...darkness to light; from the drivellings of dotage to the exercise of an improved understanding; and redunaant and minute as these laws are, in many particulars,... | |
 | Walter Henry Medhurst - 1838 - 646 頁
...turn from the ravings of the Zend Avesta, or the Puranas, to the tone of sense and business of the Chinese collection, we seem to be passing from darkness to light; from the drivellings of dotage, to the exercise of an improved understanding ; and redundant and minute as these laws are, in many particulars,... | |
 | Nathan Dunn - 1839 - 158 頁
...series of enactments, savouring throughout of practical judgment and European good sense. When we turn from the ravings of the Zendavesta, or the Puranas,...to light — from the drivellings of dotage to the exercise of an improved understanding : and, redundant and minute as these laws are in many particulars,... | |
 | Enoch Cobb Wines - 1839 - 112 頁
...series of enactments, savouring throughout of practical judgment and European good sense. When we turn from the ravings of the Zendavesta, or the Puranas,...to light — from the drivellings of dotage to the exercise of an improved understanding : and, redundant and minute as these laws are in many * Davis.... | |
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When we turn from the ravings of the Zendavesta, or the Puranas, to the tone of sense and of business of this Chinese collection, we seem to be passing from darkness to light — from the drivellings of dotage to the exercise of an improved understanding... 
