"Jurisconsult" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... indeed: they publish their acquirements so loudly in people's ears, and keep up their own praises so incessantly, that the world's applause is actually taken by storm. Such seems to have been the case with Agrippa. He called himself a sublime theologian, an excellent jurisconsult, an able physician, a great philosopher, and a successful alchymist. The world, at last, took him at his word; and thought that a man who talked so big, must have some merit to recommend him — that it was, indeed, a great trumpet which ...
— Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions - Vol. I • Charles Mackay
... right of closing the ports, against the partisans of blockade. Qui jure suo utitur neminem laedit, says the Roman jurisconsult. ...
— Diary from March 4, 1861, to November 12, 1862 • Adam Gurowski |
