 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...  The Cambridge Examiner - Page 3431881Full view - About this book
 | John Shore Baron Teignmouth - Asianists - 1807 - 668 pages
...the close of the first book of the Ecclesiastical Polity, which Sir William Jones has parodied : " Of Law, there can be no less 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... | |
 | Sophocles - Mythology, Greek - 1808 - 432 pages
...excellent Hooker expresses himself on the same subject — " Of Law there can be no less acknow. " ledged, than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice...care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power; both " angels, and men, and creatures of what condition soever, though each in " different sort and... | |
 | Nathaniel Chapman - Great Britain - 1808 - 518 pages
...enlarged benevolence ; and of this it may be affirmed in the unparalleled language of a great writer, " that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony...do her homage ; the very least as feeling her care, the greatest as not exempted from her influence : both angels and men, and every other creature, though... | |
 | Oratory - 1808 - 542 pages
...but they all fade away in the light of that of HOOKER. " No less," says that elegant writer, " can be acknowledged, than that her seat is the bosom of God,...in heaven and earth do her homage, the very least * Jurisprudent!* regina regnorum, domina populorum, mortalium arbitra, judez civium, dmnarum humanarumque... | |
 | English literature - 1808 - 556 pages
...can be no less acknowledged, than that her scat is the bosom of God, her voice the hurwiony of tho world : all things in heaven and earth do her homage ; the very least as t'eolmg her c-re$ Ihc greatest, as not exempted from hex power : both angels and men, and creature*... | |
 | John Dougall - 1810 - 554 pages
...Cloud Turn forth he r silver lining on the Night ?" Milton, Comus. " Of law no less can be acknowlcded, than that her seat is the bosom of God ; her voice,...and the greatest, as not exempted from her power." Hooker, B. i. 16. " Go to your Natural Religion : lay before her Mahomet and his disciples, arrayed... | |
 | John Dougall - 1810 - 734 pages
...?" Milton, Comus. " Of law no less can be ackncwlcdcd, than that her seat is the bosom of Ge*l; *«r voice, the harmony of the world. All things in heaven and earth A) her .somage : the very least, as feeling htr care ; and the greatest, as not exempted iN>m Arr power."... | |
 | 1798 - 504 pages
...Eccleflaftical Polity.' 'Of law there can be no lefs .acknowledge d, than that her feat is the bofom of God ; . her voice the harmony of the world. All things in heaven and earth do her homage, the very leafl,as feeling her care, and the greateft as not exempted from her power.' "* i * ' . ~ " * 'I SIR... | |
 | Henry Kett - Best books - 1812 - 500 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 seat is the bosom of God, her * The character which Cicero has gjiven of Hortensius, and the description of his own early studies,... | |
 | Sophocles - Greek drama - 1813 - 430 pages
...excellent Hooker expresses himself on the same subject : " Of Law there can be no lees ackoow" ledged, than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice...the World : all things in Heaven and Earth do her homag« ; the very least •• as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power... | |
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