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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. "
Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences - Page 232
by American Academy of Arts and Sciences - 1862
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A Practical System of Rhetoric; Or, The Principles and Rules of Style ...

Samuel Phillips Newman - English language - 1837 - 334 pages
...distinctness of its conceptions. Example 4. The following example of this kind is from Hooker : — " 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...
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Essays and Selections

Basil Montagu - Fore-edged painting - 1837 - 382 pages
...not plainly that obedience of creatures unto the law of nature is the stay of the whole world ?" " 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...
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Natural Theology: The Arguments of Paley, Brougham, and the Bridgewater ...

George Ensor - Bridgewater treatises on the power, wisdom, and goodness of God, as manifested in the creation - 1838 - 638 pages
...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 world ; all things in...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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The Quarterly Review, Volume 172

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1891 - 580 pages
...is contained therein, that Hooker wrote the ever-memorable words : ' Her seat is the hosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world : all things in...Earth do her homage ; the very least as feeling her cure, and the greatest as not exempted from her power.' \ * Martincaa, vol. ii. pp. 314-354. t ' Eccles....
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The Yale Literary Magazine, Volume 3

College students' writings, American - 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 her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world ; all things in heaven and earth do her homage,...
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The New-York review [ed. by F.L. Hawks]. Wanting no.6,8, Volume 2

Francis Lister Hawks - 1838 - 542 pages
...the soul of order, because it was meant to be the expression of the divine attribute of justice: " 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,...
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The New-York Review, Volume 2

Caleb Sprague Henry, Joseph Green Cogswell - American periodicals - 1838 - 546 pages
...the soul of order, because it was meant to be the expression of the divine attribute of justice : " 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,...
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In Memoriam, Honorable John Marshall Harlan: Proceedings of the Bar and ...

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 of intellectual...
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Report of the First[-thirty-first] Annual Meeting of the Virginia ..., Volume 16

Virginia State Bar Association - Bar associations - 1903 - 470 pages
...Virginia soil, I feel that I am home again and in the bosom of my friends. Hooker eloquently said, " 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,...
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The Works

Richard Hooker, John Keble, Richard William Church - 626 pages
...each as 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 the world : all things in heaven and earth do her homage,...
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