 | United States. Supreme Court - 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... | |
 | William Maxwell - 1850 - 508 pages
...exclamation of Warton, when he snuffed out a candle : Srevis esse laboi'o : Obscurusfio. 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... | |
 | M. C. Bradbrook - 1979 - 294 pages
...Cressida has its parallel in Hooker's encomium on law: Of law there can be no less acknowledged then that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world: all things in heavne and earth do her homage, the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest not exempted from... | |
 | Robert A. Ferguson - 1984 - 456 pages
...the legal profession in 1821, assumed as much in making Richard Hooker's famous assertion his own: "Of law there can be no less acknowledged, than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world." 6 3 Such certainty proved especially irresistible to writers describing a new... | |
 | Matthew Black, James C. VanderKam - 1985 - 498 pages
...Ecclesiastical Polity, i, 16.8: 'Of Law there can be no less acknowledged than that ... her voice is the harmony of the world: all things in heaven and...do her homage, the very least as feeling her care, the greatest as not exempted from her power.' The underlying idea that a breach of divine law leads... | |
 | Philipp Wolf - 1998 - 364 pages
...repräsentiert die ultimative Apotheose des Gesetzes: „Of Law there can be no less acknowledged, than her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony...in heaven and earth do her homage, the very least in feeling her care and the greatest not exempted from her power" (Hooker 1593 (ed. 1963), I, XVI,... | |
 | David Kairys - 1998 - 752 pages
...quotation, for rhetorical purposes, was taken from the Anglican theologian Hooker: "Of law no less can be acknowledged, than that her seat is the bosom of God; her voice the harmony of the world.'"5 Similarly, lawyers portrayed their own professional character as the truest... | |
 | Conrad Cherry - 1998 - 428 pages
...remember that fine passage in Hooker which embalms, in words of amber, the whole philosophy of obedience: "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;... | |
 | Ian Ward - 1999 - 258 pages
...striking similarity to Aquinas's. The Laws traced civil authority from divine law, concluding that 'of law there can be no less acknowledged than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world'.41 Following Aquinas, Hooker could affirm that when 'Christian kings are said... | |
 | Edward Geoffrey Parrinder, Geoffrey Parrinder - 2000 - 389 pages
...Light to guide, a Rod To check the erring, and reprove. William Wordsworth, Ode to Duty ( 1 807 ) 15 Of Law there can be no less acknowledged, than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world. Richard Hooker, Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity ( 1 5 94 ) 16 Let us have... | |
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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. 
