 | Bernard Bosanquet - Political Science - 1895 - 456 pages
...: ' Wisdom is common to all things. Those who speak with intelligence must hold fast to the common as a city holds fast to its law, and even more strongly. For all human laws are fed by one thing : the divine/ ' The people must fight for its law as for its walls.' ' Wisdom is one thing.... | |
 | Harry Thurston Peck - Anthologies - 1901 - 470 pages
...stand upon that which is common to all, as firmly as a State does upon its law, and much more firmly. For all human laws are fed by the one Divine law ; it prevaileth as far as it listeth, and sufficeth for all, and surviveth all. Even they that sleep are... | |
 | Charles Montague Bakewell - Philosophy, Ancient - 1907 - 460 pages
...Wisdom is common to all. . . . They who would speak with intelligence must hold fast to the [wisdom that is] common to all, as a city holds fast to its law,...even more strongly. For all human laws are fed by one divine law, which prevaileth as far as it listeth and suffices for all things and excels all things.... | |
 | Oliver Joseph Thatcher - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1907 - 488 pages
...91. Wisdom is common to all things. Those who speak with intelligence must hold fast to the common as a city holds fast to its law, and even more strongly. For all human laws are fed by one thing, the divine. It prevails as much as it will, and suffices for all things with something to... | |
 | Alfred William Benn - Ethics - 1909 - 346 pages
...common to all things. " Those who speak with intelligence," he declares, "must hold fast to the common, as a city holds fast to its law, and even more strongly ; for all human laws are fed by one thing — the divine." 1 How he thought of nature as governed by an essentially moral law is shown... | |
 | James Hastings, John Alexander Selbie, Louis Herbert Gray - Ethics - 1916 - 940 pages
...process ; it is God ; it is ^i/x>>, the lifeprinciple ; it is Logos, the divine law, or will of God. ' All human laws are fed by the one divine law. It prevails as much as it will, and is sufficient and more than sufficient for all things." This Logos is the immanent reason of the world... | |
 | Francis Macdonald Cornford - Literary Collections - 1923 - 298 pages
...hold fast to (or strengthen themselves with) what is common to all, as a city to its law, and much more strongly. For all human laws are fed by the one divine Law. For this prevails as far as it will, and is sufficient for all, and victorious over all. Therefore... | |
 | Margaret Elizabeth Jane Taylor - Philosophy, Ancient - 1924 - 158 pages
...moral teaching. The first thing of all is to gain wisdom by understanding the law of the universe. ' Those who speak with understanding must hold fast to what is common to all, as a city to its law, and far more strongly. For all human laws are sustained by one law, the divine. For it... | |
 | Philosophy - 1926 - 336 pages
...Auckland University College, NZ Those who speak -with understanding must hold fast to what is tommon to all as a city holds fast to its law, and even more ttubbomly — Herakleitos. THE President of the British Association for 1925 says that the quarters... | |
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Those who speak with understanding must hold fast to what is common to all as a city holds fast to its law, and even more strongly. 
