 | 1833 - 370 pages
...imposture, has too often his virtue more impaired than his fortune. — DR. JOHNSON. The seat of Law is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the...do her homage ; the very least as feeling her care, the greatest as not exempted from her power; both angels and men, and creatures of what condition soever,... | |
 | William Cobbett - 1834 - 298 pages
...arrow in the quiver of cruel and cowardly oppressors. "Of Law," says Bishop HOOKER, "no less can be acknowledged, than that her seat is the bosom of God;...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... | |
 | 1840 - 316 pages
...punished ; if he was innocent, the law would acquit him ; that law . of whom it has been said by Hooker, that her seat is the bosom, of ; , God ; her voice the harmony of the world ; all things in heaveo. • and earth do her homage ; the very least, as feeling her care, and the greatest as not... | |
 | South Carolina - 1836 - 476 pages
...dispute. " Of law" (says the excellent Hooker, in his book of ecclesiastical polity) "no less can be acknowledged, than that, her seat is the bosom of...All things in heaven and earth do her homage ; the least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power." September, 1814. JOSEPH... | |
 | Tracts - 1836 - 506 pages
...GENT. AUTHOR OF "THE PRACTICE OF APPEALS IN THE HOUSE OF I.OHDS," &c. " Of law no less can be said than that her seat is the bosom of God ; her voice...the harmony of the world. All things in heaven and in earth do her homage, the least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempt from her power."... | |
 | 1837 - 512 pages
...philosopher. It 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...do her homage, the very least as feeling her care, the greatest as not exempted from her power; both angels and men, and creatures of what condition soever,... | |
 | 1839 - 556 pages
...perfectly ignorant of the works of Hooker : it occurs in the fifth book of the Ecclesiastical Polity. " Of Law there can be no less acknowledged than that...harmony of the world. All things in heaven and earth do pay her homage ; the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempt from her power.... | |
 | Levi Woodbury - 1837 - 72 pages
...of right ; and of the pure spirit of which, in the eloquent description of Hooker, " no less can be acknowledged than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world." It is the liberty not to trample on the rights of the weak and the poor, any... | |
 | 1838 - 426 pages
...origin. The learned and pious Hooker has clothed this sentiment in the following beautiful language : " Of law there can be no less acknowledged, than that...do her homage, the very least as feeling her care, the greatest as not exempt from her power ; both, angels and men, and creatures of what condition soever,... | |
 | George Ensor - 1838 - 638 pages
...such precious fragments without deploring in so sublime a strain : — " Of law, no less can be said, than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice...do her homage, the very least as feeling her care, the greatest as not exempted from her power : both angels and men, and creatures of what condition... | |
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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. 
