 | Marcus Tullius Cicero - Divination - 1878 - 548 pages
...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... | |
 | Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) - 1869 - 518 pages
...be applied with peculiar force and propriety. ' Of law,' says he, ' no less can be said than this, that her seat is the bosom of God, and her voice the harmony of the world : all things in heaven and earth do her homage; the very greatest as not beyond her control, and the... | |
 | New York (State). Secretary's Office, Allen C. Beach - New York (State) - 1879 - 520 pages
...favor upon this house, which has been builded for framing, interpreting and administering law, whose " seat is the bosom of God, and her voice the harmony of the world." Except the Lord build the house, their labor is but lost that build it. Protect Thou this house from... | |
 | Christian evidence society - 1879 - 498 pages
...freedom, and in the liberty of that perfect law of moral goodness, whose seat, in the words of Hooker, is the bosom of God, and her voice the harmony of the world. A second cause which has obscured the certainty of the ground of morals, and therefore the fact of... | |
 | Frederic William Farrar - Sermons - 1880 - 362 pages
...— Law, the anchor of the realm ; and since the majestic principle of that Divine Law, "whose home is the bosom of God and her voice the harmony of the world," can only be ensured by human laws, it is the function of Parliaments, in the words of a recent statesman,... | |
 | Frederic William Farrar - Sermons, English - 1880 - 362 pages
...Regni,"—L&v!, the anchor of the realm ; and since the majestic principle of that Divine Law, "whose home is the bosom of God and her voice the harmony of the world," can only be ensured by human laws, it is the function of Parliaments, in the words of a recent statesman,... | |
 | United States. Congress - Legislators - 1881 - 68 pages
...restraints. His conception of its majesty is well expressed in the words of Hooker : " Her seat is in the bosom of God, and 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... | |
 | Richard Hughes - 1881 - 490 pages
...God-fearing man ; for he recognizes in it the earthly shadow of that eternal order, whose " seat is in the bosom of God, and her voice the harmony of the world." It is a condition diametrically opposed to thiswhich the Son of Man foretels as heralding His coming... | |
 | United States. 46th Congress, 2d session - 1881 - 68 pages
...restraints. His conception of its majesty is well expressed in the words of Hooker: "Her seat is in the bosom of God, and 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... | |
 | Timothy Walker - Law - 1882 - 850 pages
...subject-matter in question. And it was in this comprehensive sense, that Hooker spoke of law, when he said, " Her seat is the bosom of God, and 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... | |
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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. 
