 | John Adams - Constitutional history - 1794 - 584 pages
...fcience of legiflation, which is not of the leaft importance to be underftood, there is a confuiion of languages, as if men were but lately come from Babel. Scarcely any two writers, much lefs nations, agree in ufmg words in the fame fenfe. Such a latitude, it is true, allows a fcope for... | |
 | John P. Diggins - History - 1986 - 430 pages
...by men of education, in all the nations of Europe; but in the science of legislation, which is not of the least importance to be understood, there is...the same sense. Such a latitude, it is true, allows for politicians to speculate, like merchants with false weights, artificial credit, or base money,... | |
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Europe ; but in the science of legislation, which is not one of the least importance to be understood, there is a confusion of languages, as if men were but lately come from Babel. Scarcely any two writers, much less nations, agree in using words in the... 