Sentences with phrase «inspired encyclopaedia»
It is offered to us by the Church as a revelation of God; not, certainly, as a sort of inspired encyclopaedia, where chapter and verse can be turned up and questions settled out of hand.
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Jur were necessarily inspired by Halsbury's, as the earliest US legal encyclopaedia is taken to be Thornton» s University Encyclopedia of Law (1883), which of course predates Halsbury's.
Two US encyclopaedias may have been influenced by Kent's Commentaries (4 volumes 1826 - 1830), which was definitely inspired by Blackstone's Commentaries, which became the authoritative version of english common law as adopted and modified in the United States.