the capital. These

events are authentic and famous.]

[Footnote 91: They were new bound in purple, deposited in a rich

casket, and shown to curious travellers by the monks and

magistrates bareheaded, and with lighted tapers, (Brenckman, l.

i. c. 10, 11, 12, p. 62 - 93.)]

[Footnote 92: led light
After the collations of Politian, Bologninus, and

Antoninus Augustinus, and the splendid edition of the Pandects by

Taurellus, (in 1551,) Henry Brenckman, a Dutchman, undertook a

pilgrimage to Florence, where he employed several years in the

study of a single manuscript. His Historia Pandectarum

Florentinorum, (Utrecht, 1722, in 4to.,) though a monument of

industry, is a small portion of his original design.]

It is the first care of a reformer to prevent any future

reformation. To maintain the text of the Pandects, the

Institutes, and the Code, the use of ciphers and abbreviations

was rigorously custom flash drives
proscribed; and as Justinian recollected, that the

perpetual edict had been buried under the weight of commentators,

he denounced the punishment of forgery against the rash civilians

who should presume to interpret or pervert the will of their

sovereign. The scholars of Accursius, of Bartolus, of Cujacius,

should blush for their accumulated guilt, unless they dare to

dispute his right of binding the authority of his successors, and

the native freedom of the mind. But the emperor was unable to

fix his own inconstancy; and, while he boasted of renewing the

exchange of Diomede, usb design
of transmuting brass into gold, ^93

discovered the necessity of purifying his gold from the mixture

of baser alloy. Six years had not elapsed from the publication

of the Code, before he condemned the imperfect attempt, by a new

and more accurate edition of the same work; which he enriched

with two hundred of his own law