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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 ;... "
Elements of General Knowledge: Introductory to Useful Books in the Principal ... - Page 273
by Henry Kett - 1805
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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...admiring her as the mother of their peace and joy." No one can read this passage without a consciousness, that the personification gives a unity and distinctness...
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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...admiring her as the mother of their peace and joy." It thus appears, that were it not for the existence of general laws, to which the events of the material...
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The Law Magazine: Or, Quarterly Review of Jurisprudence, Volume 18

Law - 1837 - 512 pages
...harmony of the world; all things in heaven and earth do her homage, the very least as feeling her care, the greatest as not exempted from her power; both...admiring her as the mother of their peace and joy.' " The passage from Cicero to which allusion is made is to be found in the treatise De Republic^—...
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The Church of England Quarterly Review, Volume 5

1839 - 556 pages
...heaven and earth do pay her homage ; the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempt from her power. Both angels and men, and creatures...admiring her as the mother of their peace and joy." Upon which Bishop Jebb has remarked, " Hooker's view, which I admired (before I knew better) without...
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The British Magazine and Monthly Register of Religious and ..., Volume 13

Theology - 1838 - 728 pages
...day set at nought the discipline of the church, and eventually destroyed it. ' Of law,' says he, ' there can be no less acknowledged than that her seat...admiring her as the mother of their peace and joy.' It seems as if the venerable advocate of the establishment, in composing this beautiful passage, had...
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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
...harmony of the world ; all things in heaven and earth do her homage, the very least as feeling her care, the greatest as not exempted from her power : both...admiring her as the mother of their peace and joy." — Eccles. Pol. book i. in the conclusion. Let not those who, to use the language of the same Hooker,...
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The Yale Literary Magazine, Volume 3

College students' writings, American - 1838 - 426 pages
...things in heaven and earth do her homage, the very least as feeling her care, the greatest as not exempt from her power ; both, angels and men, and creatures...admiring her as the mother of their peace and joy." We are too apt to consider law as a thing of parchment, constitutions, and statutes, having its birth...
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Connecticut Common School Journal and Annals of Education, Volumes 1-4

Henry Barnard - Education - 1839 - 1066 pages
...the very greatest as not exempted from her power; both angels and men, and creaiures of what condilon soever, though each in different sort and manner,...admiring her as the mother of their peace and joy." But this is digression. In enforcing authority, especially over number?, attention hearth, to serve...
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Southern Literary Messenger, Volume 4

1838 - 870 pages
...from her power. Both angels and men, and creatures of what condition soever, though each in difiercnt sort and manner, yet all with uniform consent, admiring her as the mother of their peace and joy." Who would disturb this organic harmony? None but the enemies of God and man ! MELANCHOLY HOURS. Hiñe...
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The Legal Observer, Or, Journal of Jurisprudence, Volume 15

Law - 1838 - 534 pages
...angels and men, and creatures of (what condition soever, though each in different sort and mariner, yet all with uniform consent admiring her as the mother of their peace and joy." Every sincere lover of his country, therefore, will be eager to promote, by all expedients in his power,...
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