 | Conrad Cherry - History - 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;... | |
 | David Kairys - Law - 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... | |
 | Philip Bruce Secor - Biography & Autobiography - 1999 - 412 pages
...reason, the instrument of virtue. Hooker's famous summary cannot be improved upon or heard too often. [O]f law there can be no less acknowledged, than that...least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power; Angels and men and creatures of what condition soever, though each in different... | |
 | Ian Ward - Drama - 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 - Reference - 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... | |
 | Francis Graham Wilson, H. Lee Cheek, Jr., M. Susan Power, Kathy B. Cheek - Philosophy - 282 pages
...Richard Hooker: "...God hath disposed all laws, each as in nature, so in degree distinct from other. ..Of law there can be no less acknowledged, than that...least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power: both Angels and men and creatures of what condition so ever, though each in... | |
 | Thomas Hobbes - Fiction - 2004 - 612 pages
...will-o'-the-wisp. Seekers after truth — how Hobbes despised them, all that deluded race who dreamt of a law whose seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world: all things in heaven and earth doing her homage! Rather, boldly conclude that truth is not to be sought, but made. Let men agree what... | |
 | James Wilson, Bird Wilson - Law - 2005 - 1436 pages
...Such—and so universal is law. " Her seat," to use the sublime language of the excellent Hooker,* " is the bosom of God; her voice, the harmony of the...least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power. Angels and men, creatures of every condition, though each in different sort... | |
 | Don Hawkinson - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 470 pages
...Whatever God does is fair, even if we don't understand it. Our response is to appeal directly to Him. "Of law there can be no less acknowledged than that...bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world. All in heaven and earth do her [the Law] homage— the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest... | |
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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... 
