...is so beautiful, as to leave cause for regret that the compiler has not favoured us with more. , • Of Law there can be no less acknowledged than that her seat is rift bosom of 'God ; her voice the hurmony of the world : at! fhhigs tn heaven and earth do her homage...

...the close of the first book of the Ecclesiastical Polity, which Sir William Jones has parodied : " Of Law, there can be no less acknowledged than that her seat is the " bosom of Got!, her voice the harmony of the world : all things in " Heaven and Earth do her homage, the very...

...profound sentiments expressed by the venerable Hooker, particularly in the following eloquent passage : " Of law there can be no less acknowledged, than that her seat is the bosom of God, her * The character which Cicero has gjiven of Hortensius, and the description of his own early studies,...

...contest glorious to the state, In her own blood the Fury roll'd .So may the god now guide his fate ! 1t 910. With equal sublimity and energy the excellent...himself on the same subject : " Of Law there can be no lees ackoow" ledged, than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of " the World :...

...desolating confusion. The blessings of law are the dictates of reason; and " of law," says Hooker, •• there can be no less acknowledged, than that her seat is the bo^om of God, her voice the harmony of the universe: all things in heaven and earth do her homage,...

...Ecclesiastical Polity, and language would fail to express it in more sublime terms : " Of Law there 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...

...the 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 her seat is the besom of God, her voice the harmony <jf the world. Ah1 things in heaven and earth do her homage ; the...

...we 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 her seat is in the bosom of God ; her voice the harmony of the world ; all things in heaven and earth do her homage...

...language of one of the most eloquent authors of any age. He then cited the well known passage of Hooker, ' of law there can be no less acknowledged than that her seat is the bosom of God, &c.'" With this triumphant finale, amid the cheers of an admiring audience, the curtain dropped on...

...are ready enough to learn one of the choicest lessons in the writings of the judicious Hooker, that " of Law there can be no less acknowledged, than that her seat is the bosom of Ood, her voice the harmony of the world; both angels, and men, and creatures of what condition soever,...