. The library of historic characters and famous events of all nations and all ages . dedby himself; many were rejected by his successors; manyhave been obliterated by time ; but the number of sixteenEdicts, and one hundred and sixty-eight Novels, has beenadmitted into the authentic body of the civil jurisprudence ( 534-565)- Monarchs seldom condescend to become the preceptors oftheir subjects ; and some praise is due to Justinian, by whosecommand an ample system was reduced to a short and ele-mentary treatise. Among the various institutes of the Romanlaw, those of Gains were the most popul
. The library of historic characters and famous events of all nations and all ages . dedby himself; many were rejected by his successors; manyhave been obliterated by time ; but the number of sixteenEdicts, and one hundred and sixty-eight Novels, has beenadmitted into the authentic body of the civil jurisprudence ( 534-565)- Monarchs seldom condescend to become the preceptors oftheir subjects ; and some praise is due to Justinian, by whosecommand an ample system was reduced to a short and ele-mentary treatise. Among the various institutes of the Romanlaw, those of Gains were the most popular in the East andWest; and their use maybe considered as an evidence oftheir merit. They were selected by the Imperial delegates,Tribonian, Theophilus, and Dorotheus; and the freedomand purity of the Antonines was encrusted with the coarsermaterials of a degenerate age. The same volume which in-troduced the youth of Rome, Constantinople and Ber>tus tothe gradual study of the Code and Pandects, is still preciousto the historian, the philosopher and the magistrate.—E.
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