 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 Tragedies of Sophocles - Page 39by Sophocles - 1813 - 408 pagesFull view - About this book
 | English literature - 1826 - 608 pages
...society, whose ' voice is the harmony of the world, to whom all things in ' heaven and earth do homage, the very least as feeling her ' care, and the greatest as not exempt from her power," — Law, this universal ' mother of peace and joy,'* is, in the West India... | |
 | Henry Budd - Baptism - 1827 - 1150 pages
...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...in different sort and manner, yet all with uniform consent, admiring her as the mother of their peace and joy." ' Apply this to that Law of which man... | |
 | Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1827 - 540 pages
...and earth do it homage, the very least as feeling its care, and the greatest as not exempt from its power. Both angels and men and creatures, of what...in different sort and manner, yet all, with uniform consent, admiring it as the parent of peace and happiness."t * Dwight's Travels. t Hooker. THE END.... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1827 - 532 pages
...the harmony of the world ; all things in heaven and VOL. xxiv. — NO. 55. 44 earth do her homage, the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power.' The kindly guardianship of the municipal laws, and the obedience and reverence due to them, are nowhere... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1827 - 538 pages
...the harmony of the world ; all things in heaven and VOL. xxtv. — NO. 55. 44 earth do her homage, the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power.' The kindly guardianship of the municipal laws, and the obedience and reverence due to them, are nowhere... | |
 | Admission - Catholic emancipation - 1827 - 652 pages
...Polity, speaking of Law, states the condition on which " all things in heaven and earth do her homage; the very least, as feeling her care; and the greatest, as not exempted from her pmver" In Ireland, the conditions have so often been forgotten, that the homage has seldom been done.*... | |
 | 1827 - 750 pages
...order (I) Almighty God hath created and \ appointed f all things, in heaven, earth, ) and waters. Í " Both angels and men, and creatures of what condition soever, though each in different so rt and manner." andevcryoncbathnccdof other [" The harmony of the world." So that in all things... | |
 | Sir James Mackintosh - International law - 1828 - 108 pages
...deploring the loss of a work which, for the benefit of all generations, should have been immortal. lx>th angels and men, and creatures of what condition soever,...in different sort and manner, yet all with uniform consent admiring her as the mother of their peace and joy." — Eccles. Pol. book i. in the conclusion.... | |
 | William Cobbett - Great Britain - 1828 - 304 pages
...bosom of " God ; her voice 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 her power." But, to make the law worthy of this eulogium it must be impartial in itself and impartially executed.... | |
 | Law - 1831 - 436 pages
...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...in different sort and manner, yet all with uniform consent, admiring her as the mother of their peace and joy." ' 1 will add, in my own humble language,... | |
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