 Of law there can be no less acknowledged, than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world ; all things in heaven and earth do her homage, the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power...  Works - Page 152by Sir William Jones - 1807Full view - About this book
 | Henry Kett - Books and reading - 1805 - 340 pages
...profound sentiments expressed by the venerable Hooker, particularly in the following eloquent passage :. " Of law there can be no less acknowledged, than that...the greatest as not exempted from her power, both angels and men, and creatures of what condition soever, though each in different sort and manner, yet... | |
 | Nathan Drake - English essays - 1805 - 376 pages
...sentence, as a proof of energy and felicity of construction inferior to no subsequent attempts : " Of law, there can be no less acknowledged than that...the greatest as not exempted from her power. Both angels and men, .and creatures of what condition soever, though each in different sort and manner,... | |
 | Nathan Drake - English essays - 1805 - 370 pages
...sentence, as a proof of energy and felicity of construction inferior to no subsequent attempts : " Of law, there can be no less acknowledged than that...the greatest as not exempted from her power. Both angels and men, and creatures of what condition soever, though each in different sort and manner, yet... | |
 | Henry Kett - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1805 - 340 pages
...profound sentiments expressed by the venerable Hooker, particularly in the following eloquent passage : " Of law there can be no less acknowledged, than that...her voice the harmony of the world, all things in heaveifand earth do her homage, the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - English literature - 1805 - 582 pages
...is so beautiful, as to leave cause for regret that the compiler has not favoured us with more. , • Of Law there can be no less acknowledged than that her seat is rift bosom of 'God ; her voice the hurmony of the world : at! fhhigs tn heaven and earth do her homage... | |
 | John Shore Baron Teignmouth - Lawyers Great Britain Biography - 1806 - 618 pages
...purse by her boundless de" mandsV * * * * The parody was so obvious, that I could not refrain from * The reader will thank me for giving him an opportunity...the greatest as not exempted from her " power ; both angels and men, and creatures of what " condition soever, though each in different sort and " manner,... | |
 | 1806 - 508 pages
...beautifully nor more justly described than by this great divine, in his " Ecclesiastical Polity." " Of law there can be no less acknowledged, than that...and the greatest as not exempted from her power." MR. ROSCOE, OF LIVERPOOL, SAYS finely in his " Life of Lorenzo de Medicis," " No end can justify the... | |
 | John Shore Baron Teignmouth - India - 1806 - 566 pages
...book of the Ecclesiastical Polity, which Sir William Jones has parodied. " Of law, there can be BO less acknowledged than that her seat is the bosom...the greatest as not exempted from her power ; " both angels and men, and creatures of what condition soever, though each in different " son and manner,... | |
 | William Jones - 1807 - 534 pages
...people of what condition foever, * Gitagovinda, or the songs of Jayadeva ; Works5 vol. iv. p. 236. " though each in different fort and manner, " yet all...gels and men, and creatures of what condition soever, «' though each in different sort and manner, yet all with " uniform consent, admiring her as the mother... | |
 | John Shore Baron Teignmouth - Asianists - 1807 - 668 pages
...performers in it; and I fear it, * The reader will thank me for giving him an opportunity of perusing tlie passage, at the close of the first book of the Ecclesiastical...acknowledged than that her seat is the " bosom of Got!, her voice the harmony of the world : all things in " Heaven and Earth do her homage, the very... | |
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