 | William Pinkney, Henry Wheaton - United States - 1826 - 646 pages
...of, when, with the splendid magnificence of eastern metaphor, he says, that " her seat is the bo" som of God, and her voice the harmony of the " world."...endure. You may, I know, erect it into a rule ; and when you do, I shall, in common with others, do my best to respect it ; but until you do so, I am free... | |
 | William Pinkney, Henry Wheaton - Lawyers - 1826 - 636 pages
...take the liberty to assert that if this be law, it is not that sort of law which Hooker speaks of, when, with the splendid magnificence of eastern metaphor, he says, that " her seat is the bo" som of God, and her voice the harmony of the " world." Such a chimera can never be fashioned into... | |
 | Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1827 - 518 pages
...take the liberty to assert, that if this be law, it is not that sort of law which Hooker speaks of, when, with the splendid magnificence of eastern metaphor,...endure. You may, I know, erect it into a rule : and when vou do. I shall, in common with others, do my best to respect it ; but, until you do so, I am... | |
 | William Brittainham Lacey - Elocution - 1828 - 308 pages
...as it were, sentiment and feeling; — him whose moral science the virtuous still revere : — " For her seat is the bosom of God, and her voice the harmony of the world." Say, then, ye men of letters — shall Greece be given up ? Shall the Ttfrk still pollute the soil... | |
 | 1833 - 784 pages
...suppression of crime — in showing them (in the words of old Hooker) " that of law it must be acknowledged that her seat is the bosom of God ; and her voice the harmony of the world ;" that he, I say, should be employed in removing such rnbhisb, from the avenues of justice, or in... | |
 | John Epy Lovell - Elocution - 1836 - 534 pages
...it were, sentiment and feeling ; — him whose moral science the virtuous still revere : — " For her seat is the bosom of God, and her voice the harmony of the world." Say, then, ye men of letters — shall Greece be given up ? — Shall the Turk still pollute the soil... | |
 | 1838 - 474 pages
...fear of retribution after death, and the temple of the Law, the earthly residence of her whose proper seat is the bosom of God, and her voice the harmony of the world, falls prostrate in the dust. Do you rely on conscience ? Alas ! the instruction that causeth to err... | |
 | 1838 - 504 pages
...the fear of retribution cr death, and the temple of the Law, the earthly residence of her lose proper seat is the bosom of God, and her voice the harmony of the irld, falls prostrate in the dust. Do you rely on conscience ? Alas ! 2 instruction that causeth to... | |
 | Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1841 - 626 pages
...Polity, which is indisputably the finest specimen of his eloquence. " Of Law no less can be said, than that her seat is the bosom of God, and her voice the harmony of the universe. All things in heaven and earth do her homage, the very least as feeling her care, and the... | |
 | 1842 - 440 pages
...profound respect for the laws of nations — that law of which, more than any other, it may be said that 'her seat is the bosom of God, and her voice the harmony of tho world.'" I have the honor to be, with sentiments of the highest consideration, gentlemen, your... | |
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Hooker speaks of, when, with the splendid magnificence of eastern metaphor, he says, that " her seat is the bosom of God, and her voice the harmony of the world. 
