| William Adams - Christian ethics - 1850 - 392 pages
...it is shown, wherever it is found. This is the commandment of Christ to the young man ; and this, * Of Law, there can be no less acknowledged than that...voice the harmony of the world : all things in heaven do her homage — the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest aa not exempted from her power... | |
| Richard Hooker - Church polity - 1850 - 652 pages
...in nature, so in degree, distinct from other. [8.] Wherefore that here we may briefly end : of_Law there can be no less acknowledged, than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of thejoirld : all things in heaven and earth do her homage, the very least as feeling her... | |
| William Maxwell - Virginia - 1850 - 502 pages
...exclamation of Warton, when he snuffed out a candle : Breilis esse laboi'o : OtiSCurusjio. THE PRAISE OF LAW. Of Law there can be no less acknowledged than that her seat is in the bosom of God ; her voice the harmony of the world ; all things in heaven and earth do her homage... | |
| William Maxwell - Virginia - 1850 - 506 pages
...exclamation of Warton, when he snuffed out a candle : Brcvis esse labofo : Olscurusjio. THE PRAISE OF LAW. Of Law there can be no less acknowledged than that her seat is in the bosom of God ; her voice the harmony of the world ; all things in heaven and earth do her homage;... | |
| Sir James Mackintosh - 1850 - 597 pages
...philosopher.* [t is of this law that Hooker speaks in so sublime a strain : — " Of Law, no less can be said, than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the wo rid; all things in heaven and earth do her homage, the very least as feeling her... | |
| John Campbell Baron Campbell - Great Britain - 1851 - 528 pages
...of the most eloquent writers of any age — Hooker— in his great work on Ecclesiastical Polity : f Of Law, there can be no less acknowledged than that...the harmony of the world ; all things in heaven and in earth do- her homage, — the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from... | |
| Sir George Bailey Sansom - History - 1958 - 532 pages
...universe. But mediaeval Western thought about the "laws" of nature is represented by Hooker, who said: "Of Law there can be no less acknowledged than that her seat is in the bosom of God. All things in heaven and earth do her homage . . . both angels and men and creatures... | |
| Maryland State Bar Association - Bar associations - 1897 - 132 pages
...origin — that induced Bishop Hooker to exclaim : " I bow with reverence before the majesty of the law. Her seat is the bosom of God; her voice the harmony of the world. All things in heaven and on earth do her homage; the very least, as feeling her protection; the greatest, as not above her power."... | |
| Academie De Droit International De La Ha - Law - 1968 - 676 pages
...l'on puisse se rapprocher de cet idéal qu'un écrivain anglais du xvn8 siècle formulait ainsi : « Of Law there can be no less acknowledged than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the World : ail things in Hcaven and Earth do her homage, the very least as feeling her... | |
| United States. Supreme Court - Judges - 1972 - 60 pages
...their last year together. Finally, there was his love of the law. He shared Richard Hooker's belief: Of law there can be no less acknowledged than that her seat is in the bosom of God and her voice the harmony of the world. For him the law was also the most fascinating... | |
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