 | M. C. Bradbrook - Drama - 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... | |
 | Iowa State Bar Association - Bar associations - 1896 - 1030 pages
...in these beautiful worck: "Law! Her seat is the bosom of God, 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 greatest is not exempt from her power." Made up as the law is, with a body of rules of conduct, which checki... | |
 | Robert A. Ferguson - Law - 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 - Astronomy - 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... | |
 | Anne Drury Hall - Literary Criticism - 2010 - 217 pages
...the law is the bosome of God, her voyce the harmony of the world, all thinges in heaven and earth doe her homage, the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power, but Angels and men and creatures of what condition so 31. In book 5's justification of feast days as... | |
 | Richard Hooker - History - 1989 - 280 pages
...each as in nature, so in degree distinct from other. Wherefore that here [16.8] we may briefly end, of law there can be no less acknowledged, than that...care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power, but Angels and men and creatures of what condition soever, though each in different sort and manner,... | |
 | Jon L. Wakelyn - History - 1996 - 456 pages
...to guard one's privileges. How beautifully, and how truly is it said, by the great Richard Hooker, "Of law, there can be no less acknowledged, than that...the greatest as not exempted from her power; both angel and men, and creatures of what condition soever, each in different sort and manner, admiring... | |
 | William J. Novak - Reference - 1996 - 412 pages
...by invoking Hooker: "Of law no less can be acknowledged than that her seat is in the bosom of God; her voice, the harmony of the world; all things in...and the greatest as not exempted from her power." Such legal reverence involved much more than a prevailing cultural idiom or the political power of... | |
 | Abby A. Judson - Body, Mind & Spirit - 1996 - 232 pages
...intelligence. "Of law, the -e can rio less be said lhan that her seat U the bosom of God, ner voice the harmonv of the world : all things in heaven and earth do her...care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power; hoth angel: and men anc all creatures whatever with uniform consent ".emiring her as th; mother of... | |
 | Philipp Wolf - Literary Criticism - 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,... | |
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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. 
