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13,444 citations drawn from 357 works so far. When a text names another work or author, the harvest records how: authority , neutral , refuted , extended , endorsed .
8,070 authority · 2,667 neutral · 1,151 refuted · 871 extended · 685 endorsed
most-cited works
60 shown- Psalms ⌂ 81 · from 17 works1 neutral 1 refuted 2 extended
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" And let each of these, after the manner of blessed David, sing with thanksgiving:
cited as authority ¶ - Genesis ⌂ 54 · from 17 works4 neutral 2 extended
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It is enough that the very ones whom he saves, found to be of an imperfect salvation, show his goodness to be imperfect — saved, namely, only as to the soul, lost as to the flesh, which with him does not rise again.
cited as authority ¶ - Gospel of Matthew 49 · from 17 works6 neutral 1 extended
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"Go, make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.
cited as authority ¶ - Iliad ⌂ 45 · from 23 works8 neutral 3 refuted 6 extended 5 endorsed
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"But far rather as Homer made the king of all the Greeks pray:
cited as authority ¶ - Commentaries on the Laws of England 44 · from 12 works10 neutral 5 refuted 3 extended
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These words sum up the whole spirit of the Commentaries;
cited as authority ¶ - Epistle to the Romans 41 · from 16 works3 extended 1 endorsed
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" For "when the nations that do not have the Law do by nature the things of the Law, these, not having the Law, are a law to themselves" — the uncircumcision keeping the ordinances of the Law, according to the Apostle, both before the Law and before the coming.
cited as authority ¶ - Gospel of John 40 · from 14 works2 neutral 1 refuted 1 extended
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"Blessed, then, are those who have not seen and yet have believed.
cited as authority ¶ - Twelve Tables 40 · from 8 works3 neutral
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In the Twelve Tables the law of contract is still in a rudimentary stage.
cited as authority ¶ - unspecified verse 39 · from 4 works4 neutral 1 refuted 2 extended 3 endorsed
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> On the fourth, fifth, and on the ninth and eleventh days, / > what is given to the deceased, that is called *navaśrāddha*.
cited as authority ¶ - Digest 37 · from 3 works3 neutral 1 extended 1 endorsed
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This was called regula Catoniana, Dig.
cited as authority ¶ - Isaiah ⌂ 34 · from 11 works3 neutral
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"You who thirst, go to the water," says Isaiah;
cited as authority ¶ - Odyssey ⌂ 33 · from 14 works10 neutral 2 refuted 7 extended 2 endorsed
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and still more that of Calypso, as of a goddess in her prime and kindly, dwelling apart by herself on an island.
cited as authority ¶ - Acts of the Apostles 32 · from 16 works4 neutral
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For, it is said, the heart and soul of those who believed was one.
cited as authority ¶ - Book of Isaiah 32 · from 13 works1 neutral 1 extended
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Isaiah, even then an apostle, foreseeing heretical hearts, says:
cited as authority ¶ - Institutes of Justinian 30 · from 3 works1 neutral 3 extended
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Inst.
cited as authority ¶ - First Epistle to the Corinthians 29 · from 11 works1 refuted 4 extended 1 endorsed
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"Which we also speak, not in words taught by human wisdom, but in words taught by the Spirit.
cited as authority ¶ - Epistle to the Galatians 26 · from 13 works5 neutral 6 extended
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for to me the world has been crucified, and I to the world, as my divine teacher says.
cited as authority ¶ - History of England 26 · from 4 works9 neutral 1 endorsed
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Hume says, “It is asserted by Sir Harry Spelman, as an undoubted fact, that, during the reigns of the Norman princes, every order of the king, issued with the consent of his privy council, had the full force of law.
cited as authority ¶ - Institutes 26 · from 6 works4 neutral 2 extended 1 endorsed
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Justinian explains why the slave lost his liberty:
cited as authority ¶ - Proverbs ⌂ 26 · from 7 works1 extended 1 endorsed
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Solomon, at any rate, says:
cited as authority ¶ - the Gospel 25 · from 8 works1 neutral
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For it is said, "to him who has it shall be added"—to faith, knowledge;
cited as authority ¶ - Histories ⌂ 23 · from 6 works10 neutral 2 refuted 3 endorsed
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Polybius, relating the manner in which men first entered into society, concludes, that the injuries done to parents or benefactors inevitably provoke the indignation of mankind, giving an additional reason, that as understanding and reflection form the great difference between men and other animals, it is evident they cannot transgress the bounds of that difference like other animals, without exci …
cited as authority ¶ - 1 Corinthians ⌂ 22 · from 10 works1 extended 1 endorsed
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but we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, the hidden wisdom.
cited as authority ¶ - Aeneid ⌂ 22 · from 6 works5 neutral 2 extended 1 endorsed
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Would you suppose that Virgil ever recited to such a man the line, "Is it then so wretched a thing to die?
cited as authority ¶ - Deuteronomy ⌂ 21 · from 12 works2 neutral
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" "For, in order to teach you his righteousness," it says, "he disciplined you and tested you and made you hunger and made you thirst in a desert land, that all his ordinances and judgments might be known in your heart, all that I command you today;
cited as authority ¶ - Book of Jeremiah 19 · from 9 works3 neutral
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But when, on coming into Cilicia and meeting a certain Gelasius, he set forth to him a creed which only Arius, or some genuine disciple of his, could have composed, then indeed we were the more confirmed in our separation, reckoning that neither will the Ethiopian ever change his skin, nor the leopard his spots, nor can one bred up in perverse doctrines wash off the evil of his heresy.
cited as authority ¶ - Constitution of the United States 19 · from 4 works1 neutral
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The federal constitution established three conventional powers over the federal government, lodging one in the majority of the people of each state;
cited as authority ¶ - Exodus ⌂ 19 · from 8 works1 neutral 1 extended
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"the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, the God of Jacob.
cited as authority ¶ - unspecified statement 19 · from 1 work4 neutral 2 refuted 1 extended 1 endorsed
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There, Āśvalāyana says:
cited as authority ¶ - Laws ⌂ 18 · from 9 works4 neutral 1 refuted 3 extended 1 endorsed
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In the Laws, indeed, Plato — that philosopher sprung from the Hebrews — bids the farmers neither to draw water for irrigation nor to take it from others, unless they have first dug for themselves down to the so-called virgin soil and found the ground without water.
cited — extend ¶ - Magna Carta 18 · from 4 works1 neutral
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While Article 14 demanded redress of one grievance, Magna Carta granted redress of a different one.
cited as authority ¶ - Gospel of Luke 17 · from 9 works2 neutral 1 extended 1 endorsed
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says your Scripture, 'is in heaven over one sinner who repents.
cited as authority ¶ - Veda 17 · from 7 works1 neutral
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A Brāhmaṇa who has fallen from the rule of conduct does not reap the fruit of the Veda;
cited as authority ¶ - Codex 16 · from 1 work
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But from the rules of caducity ascendants and descendants of the testator to the third degree were excepted both by the lex Papia and by the constitution of Caracalla.
cited as authority ¶ - Jeremiah ⌂ 16 · from 8 works1 extended
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but let him who boasts boast in this, to understand and to know that I am the Lord who does mercy and judgment and righteousness upon the earth, for in these is my will, says the Lord.
cited as authority ¶ - Annals 15 · from 5 works8 neutral 1 refuted 1 endorsed
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Nero at the beginning of his reign in 54 a.
cited — neutral ¶ - Epistle to the Ephesians 15 · from 8 works1 extended
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Therefore, putting away falsehood, speak truth;
cited as authority ¶ - First Epistle of John 15 · from 9 works
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And John too, in the greater Epistle, plainly teaches the differences of sins in these words:
cited as authority ¶ - History (of the Peloponnesian War) ⌂ 15 · from 4 works6 neutral
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” We find Thucydides of the same opinion, “that anciently lighter punishments were inflicted for the greatest crimes;
cited as authority ¶ - Second Epistle to the Corinthians 15 · from 8 works1 neutral 4 extended
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for I betrothed you to one husband, to present you as a pure virgin to Christ.
cited as authority ¶ - Works and Days ⌂ 15 · from 10 works1 refuted 2 extended 2 endorsed
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"for thrice ten thousand are upon the bountiful earth the immortal demons, guardians of mortal men.
cited as authority ¶ - unspecified saying 15 · from 3 works3 neutral 1 extended 9 endorsed
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Epicurus himself, the very censurer of Stilbo, uttered a like saying, which you must take in good part, even though I have already cancelled today's debt.
cited — endorse ¶ - Bhaviṣya Purāṇa 14 · from 1 work1 neutral
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The *tilakavrata* is mentioned in the *Bhaviṣya Purāṇa*:
cited as authority ¶ - unspecified work 14 · from 3 works12 neutral 1 extended
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Staphylus records that a certain Agamemnon is honoured as Zeus in Sparta;
cited — neutral ¶ - History of Rome 13 · from 2 works3 neutral
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Livy too, speaking of king Evander, describes him as reigning more by personal authority than by his regal power;
cited as authority ¶ - On Liberty ⌂ 13 · from 2 works4 neutral 1 refuted 5 extended
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Turn to the treatise, On Liberty.
cited — extend ¶ - Pandekten 13 · from 1 work7 neutral 1 endorsed
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Unprivileged personal creditors, Savigny, § 374;
cited — neutral ¶ - Roman Law 13 · from 5 works6 neutral
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Muirhead, Roman Law, §§ 26, 28.
cited as authority ¶ - The Federalist 13 · from 2 works2 endorsed
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I shall conclude this section with a few quotations, still leaving to the reader their application.
cited as authority ¶ - Book of Job 12 · from 6 works1 endorsed
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"No one is clean from filth," says Job, "not even if his life be one day.
cited as authority ¶ - Epistle to the Hebrews 12 · from 4 works
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For the time would fail me to recount Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, and David and Samuel and the prophets, and what follows upon these.
cited as authority ¶ - Institutes of Roman Law ⌂ 12 · from 1 work4 neutral 3 extended
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one individual could not make another as he chose, in pursuance of private disposition, his universal successor.
cited — extend ¶ - Natural History 12 · from 4 works4 neutral 1 refuted
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There is a passage in Pliny, which will serve for an explanation of this, he says that the fiercest lions do not fight with each other, nor do serpents bite serpents.
cited as authority ¶ - the Psalms 12 · from 6 works1 neutral
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For "the utterances of the Lord are sweeter than honey and the honeycombs.
cited as authority ¶ - Ancient Law ⌂ 11 · from 4 works1 neutral 6 extended 1 endorsed
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In the Lectures printed in this Volume an attempt is made to carry farther in some particulars the line of investigation pursued by the Author in an earlier work on ‘Ancient Law.
cited — extend ¶ - Book of Daniel 11 · from 8 works2 neutral
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"And behold, with the clouds of heaven, as the son of man, coming, he came even to the Ancient of days, and was present in his sight;
cited as authority ¶ - Brahma Purāṇa 11 · from 1 work
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From the *Brahma Purāṇa* verse:
cited as authority ¶ - De Legibus et Consuetudinibus Angliae 11 · from 3 works3 neutral 1 extended
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” After the virtual abolition of ordeal in 1215, appeals by women were usually determined per patriam:
cited as authority ¶ - Ecclesiastes 11 · from 8 works
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"There is a time to be silent, and a time to speak," says the word of Ecclesiastes.
cited as authority ¶ - Epistle to the Colossians 11 · from 6 works1 extended
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"In Christ you were circumcised with a circumcision made without hands, in the putting off of the body of the flesh, in the circumcision of Christ.
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most-cited authors
60 shown- Euclid ⌂ 406 · from 1 work1 neutral 42 extended
- Homer ⌂ 262 · from 69 works63 neutral 20 refuted 25 extended 13 endorsed
- Paul 217 · from 22 works7 neutral 1 refuted 23 extended 7 endorsed
- Plato ⌂ 190 · from 31 works41 neutral 17 refuted 36 extended 10 endorsed
- Moses 180 · from 26 works15 neutral 5 refuted 13 extended
- Cicero 152 · from 15 works36 neutral 6 refuted 6 extended 8 endorsed
- Parliament of the United Kingdom 134 · from 5 works83 neutral 10 refuted 6 extended 2 endorsed
- Athenian law 129 · from 44 works1 neutral 1 refuted 1 endorsed
- Epicurus 121 · from 22 works22 neutral 53 refuted 8 extended 25 endorsed
- Justinian 119 · from 8 works16 neutral 1 refuted 6 extended
- Aristotle ⌂ 87 · from 24 works28 neutral 8 refuted 8 extended 8 endorsed
- David 87 · from 19 works3 extended
- Paul the Apostle 77 · from 13 works1 neutral 10 extended 2 endorsed
- Isaiah 73 · from 18 works5 neutral 1 refuted 1 extended
- Jesus Christ 73 · from 14 works7 extended
- Euripides ⌂ 69 · from 23 works27 neutral 5 refuted 4 extended 13 endorsed
- Parliament of England 67 · from 9 works16 neutral 10 refuted 4 extended 4 endorsed
- Manu ⌂ 66 · from 13 works2 neutral 1 refuted
- Solon 66 · from 38 works6 neutral 3 refuted 5 extended 5 endorsed
- Parliament 64 · from 6 works35 neutral 5 refuted 4 extended 4 endorsed
- Solomon 58 · from 11 works3 extended 1 endorsed
- Ulpian 56 · from 5 works3 neutral 1 refuted 2 extended
- English courts 55 · from 2 works15 neutral 3 refuted 3 endorsed
- Hesiod ⌂ 55 · from 24 works8 neutral 4 refuted 7 extended 4 endorsed
- John 54 · from 17 works4 neutral 3 extended
- Roman legislature 46 · from 2 works10 neutral 1 refuted 8 extended
- Jeremiah 43 · from 15 works4 neutral
- John Stuart Mill ⌂ 41 · from 4 works14 neutral 4 refuted 9 extended
- Demosthenes ⌂ 39 · from 14 works9 neutral 9 refuted 1 extended 2 endorsed
- Tacitus 39 · from 9 works17 neutral 1 endorsed
- Chrysippus 37 · from 13 works8 neutral 11 refuted 6 extended 5 endorsed
- William Blackstone 37 · from 12 works4 neutral 5 refuted 2 extended
- Seneca 35 · from 9 works3 neutral 1 refuted 2 extended 2 endorsed
- English Parliament 34 · from 8 works13 neutral 1 refuted 9 extended
- House of Lords 34 · from 5 works1 neutral 3 refuted 2 extended
- Paul (the Apostle) 34 · from 8 works
- Virgil ⌂ 34 · from 6 works4 neutral 1 refuted 6 extended 1 endorsed
- Democritus 33 · from 16 works15 neutral 6 refuted 1 extended 5 endorsed
- Ennius 33 · from 11 works11 neutral 2 refuted 6 endorsed
- Justinian (compilers) 32 · from 2 works3 neutral
- Socrates 32 · from 19 works2 neutral 2 refuted 3 extended 7 endorsed
- Witnesses 31 · from 16 works1 refuted
- Gaius ⌂ 30 · from 5 works3 neutral 6 extended
- Jeremy Bentham ⌂ 30 · from 7 works10 neutral 3 refuted 4 extended 3 endorsed
- Livy 30 · from 4 works6 neutral 1 refuted
- Sir Edward Coke 30 · from 10 works4 neutral 10 refuted 1 extended 1 endorsed
- Marcion 29 · from 7 works2 neutral 25 refuted
- Paulus 29 · from 4 works4 neutral 2 refuted 3 extended 1 endorsed
- Savigny 29 · from 2 works4 neutral 2 refuted 3 extended 2 endorsed
- Thucydides ⌂ 29 · from 6 works11 neutral
- the Stoics 29 · from 13 works6 neutral 9 refuted 8 extended 1 endorsed
- Framers of the United States Constitution 28 · from 4 works2 neutral
- Pythagoras 28 · from 12 works6 neutral 8 refuted 4 extended 3 endorsed
- unnamed poet 28 · from 11 works5 neutral 5 refuted 1 extended 2 endorsed
- Athenian lawgiver 27 · from 9 works
- Athenian people 27 · from 10 works1 neutral
- Isocrates ⌂ 27 · from 10 works5 neutral 5 extended 3 endorsed
- Heraclitus 26 · from 13 works6 neutral 2 refuted 5 extended 3 endorsed
- Plutarch ⌂ 26 · from 5 works8 neutral 1 extended 1 endorsed
- Sohm 26 · from 3 works11 neutral 1 extended 3 endorsed
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