 | Edward Farr - Iran - 1850 - 346 pages
...hath he made them his delegates ? The poet says, " Order is Heaven's first law, and this confessed, Some are, and must be greater than the rest*, More rich, more wise." To this end kings reign, that order may be preserved ma state. And this order consists in observing... | |
 | 1853 - 276 pages
...latter, on the contrary, is both desirable and attainable. It has been well said — " Order is heaven's first law, and this confest, Some are and must be greater than the rest." Then the question arises, how are the greater and the less, the richer and the poorer, the high and... | |
 | Robert Macoy - Freemasons - 1855 - 460 pages
...of society ; and Masonry, which is Order personified, cements the social system. Order is heaven's first law, and this confest, Some are and must be greater than the rest. Pope. This is one of the peculiarities of Freemasonry. We meet on the Level and part on the Square.... | |
 | George Oliver - 1857 - 358 pages
...voluptuousness, or habitual intoxication. LECTURE XL THE GOVERNMENT OF THE LODGE. " Order is heaven's first law ; and this confest, Some are, and must be, greater than the rest." POPE. ' On the tressel our Master draws angles and lines, There with freedom and fervency forms his... | |
 | Joseph Coleman Hart - Church architecture - 1857 - 210 pages
...shafts, moldings, and the visible resistance of lateral thrusts. Nomenclature. " OK DER is Heaven's first law ; and this confest, Some are, and must be, greater than the rest." HE vexed controversy on the nomenclature and the classification of the several styles of English medieval... | |
 | Primitive Baptists - 1858 - 624 pages
...after that. The difference in the kingdom of grace is in harmony with his general mode of proceeding. " Order is heav'n's first law ; and this confest, Some are and must be greater than the rest." If all distinction were blotted out of the Book of revelation, one bright mark of its inspiration would... | |
 | Emma Jane WORBOISE - 1858 - 454 pages
...that though it is iniquity to exalt wealth and rank at the expense of merit — " ' Order is Heaven's first law, and this confest ; Some are, and must be, greater than the rest.' Now, good night ; I am going to Margaret, and I shall tell her what a formidable Chartist-kind of brother... | |
 | Hollis Read - Natural theology - 1859 - 420 pages
...man, many a useful pursuit and necessary calling would be left unprovided for. " Order is Heaven's first law ; and this confest, Some are, and must be, greater than the rest, More rich, more wise ; hut who infers from hence That such are happier, shocks all common sense." Our idea may, at least... | |
 | James Hutchinson (M.A.) - English language - 1859 - 156 pages
...honour the Queen; fear to do ill; strive to do well; be grateful to thy benefactor. Order is Heaven's first law; and this confest, Some are, and must be, greater than the rest. Hvtr is hcre equivalant to the thing wfiick. t Adjective, T consider myself* a citizen of the world,... | |
 | Louisiana. Constitutional Convention, Albert P. Bennett - History - 1864 - 644 pages
...run down to the present— unbroken as time itself. Even at the advent "Order is nation's first latf, and this confest, Some are and must be greater than the rest." Let us trace it rapidly down the stream of time to the present, and what do we find? Why, sir, we find... | |
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Order is Heaven's first law ; and this confest, Some are, and must be, greater than the rest, 50 More rich, more wise ; but who infers from hence That such are happier, shocks all common sense. 
