Schlegel
historical figure · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
in the texts
Dissertations on Early Law and Custom
Scholar cited for dating Manu's law-book to 1000 BC.
Jones placed its age at 1280 bc, Schlegel at 1000 bc, Elphinstone at 900 bc, Monier Williams at about the fifth century bc, Max Müller at not earlier than 200 bc But the high authority of the late Dr.
Law in a Free State
An art critic cited for the opinion that carefully arranged drapery can be more affecting than the nude figure, used to question the State's competence to legislate on decency.
When art critics like Schlegel are of opinion that the nude figure is far less allective than carefully arranged drapery, it is surely the height of blind faith to entrust the State and its blundering machinery to lay down the laws of propriety in the matter of dress.