| Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - 1807 - 788 pages
...officers in no inferiour rank. •I request the reader not to infer fron* my opinion of the tribunals ot" residence my confidence in their efficacy. My homage...influence of Plutus over the feeble and pliant Themis.' fi. 25. Even external character is not properly consulted. 'By the Spanish laws a judge is forbidden... | |
| David Phineas Adams, William Emerson, Samuel Cooper Thacher - 1807 - 786 pages
...Ample proof is found of our author's knowledge of the purity of Spanish officers in no inférieur rank. 'I request the reader not to infer from my opinion...influence of Plutus over the feeble and pliant Themis.' fi. 25. Even external character is' not properly consulted. 'By the Spanish laws a judge is forbidden... | |
| Emma Helen Blair, James Alexander Robertson - 1903 - 368 pages
...previous political experience while others were deficient in 88 Churchill's Voyages, iv, pp. 427-428. 69 " I request the reader not to infer from my opinion...influence of Plutus over the feeble and pliant Themis." De Pons: Voyage to the Eastern Part of Terra Firma or the Spanish Main in South America during the... | |
| Edward Gaylord Bourne - 1903 - 374 pages
...previous political experience while others were deficient in 58 Churchill's Voyages, iv, pp. 427-428. 59 " I request the reader not to infer from my opinion...influence of Plutus over the feeble and pliant Themis." De Pons: Voyage to the Eastern Part of Terra Firma or the Spanish Main in South America during the... | |
| Edward Gaylord Bourne - 1904 - 400 pages
...enforcing responsibility was of varying efficacy. Depons, who lived several years in Caracas, said, "I resign all criticism on its operation to those...influence of Plutus over the feeble and pliant Themis." ' A viceroy of Peru compared the residencia " to the whirlwinds which we are wont to see in the squares... | |
| Edward Gaylord Bourne - 1907 - 110 pages
...previous political experience while others were deficient in 08 Churchill's Voyages, iv, pp. 427-428. 89 " I request the reader not to infer from my opinion...influence of Plutus over the feeble and pliant Themis." De Pens: Voyage to the Eastern Part of Terra F'trma or the Spanish Main in South America during the... | |
| Charles Burke Elliott - 1916 - 592 pages
...residencia, says, "I request the reader not to infer from my opinion of the tribunals of residencia, my confidence in their efficacy. My homage is immediately...seductive influence of Plutus over the feeble and pliant Themis."8 As the propulsive power back of the colonizing movement came from the ecclesiastical authorities,... | |
| Charles Burke Elliott - 1916 - 592 pages
...residencies, says, "I request the reader not to infer from my opinion of the tribunals of residencies, my confidence in their efficacy. My homage is immediately...seductive influence of Plutus over the feeble and pliant Themis."6 As the propulsive power back of the colonizing movement came from the ecclesiastical authorities,... | |
| Claude Halstead Van Tyne - 1922 - 526 pages
...report to the Council for the Indies. It was in their power to correct abuses. Yet, as we are told, "Those who know the seductive influence of Plutus over the feeble and pliant Themis" may judge how successful was this device. It could not, of course, have the effectiveness of the ever... | |
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