 His sceptre shows the force of temporal power, The attribute to awe and majesty, Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings ; But mercy is above this sceptred sway ; It is enthroned in the hearts of kings, It is an attribute to God himself ; And earthly...  Wisconsin Journal of Education - Page 1291888Full view - About this book
 | Class-book - 1852 - 152 pages
...But mercy is above this scepter'd sway, It is enthroned in the hearts of kings, It is an attribute to God himself ; And earthly power doth then shew likest God's, When mercy seasons justice. Is all the counsel that we two have shared, The sisters' vows, the hours that we have spent, When we... | |
 | Eliza Corf - 1852 - 318 pages
...But mercy is above this sceptred sway ; It is enthroned in the hearts of kings. It is an attribute of God himself. And earthly power doth then shew likest God's, When mercy seasons justice." And now to shew that the merciful must needs be just. True mercy forms a just estimate of others' weaknesses,... | |
 | Edwin Owen Jones - 1853 - 258 pages
...you as you are ? " * In the "Merchant of Venice," again, the fair doctor of laws thus addresses the Jew : — " Though justice be thy plea, consider this, That in the course of justice, none of us Should see salvation."f As a general rule, however, Shakspere's writings are deficient in the... | |
 | Benjamin Robert Haydon - 1853 - 568 pages
...were argument, I would give two passages to one in my favour." They sneered, and I at once quoted " Though justice be thy plea, consider this, That in the course of justice none of us Should see salvation." And again : " Why, all the souls that are were forfeit once, And he that... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1853 - 608 pages
...this scepter'd sway, It is enthroned in the hearts of kings ; It is an attribute to God himself f; And earthly power doth then shew likest God's, When mercy seasons justice. d Censure. • " Mercy is seasonable in the time of affliction, as clouds of rain in the time of drought."—... | |
 | John Wesley Hanson - 1854 - 204 pages
...enthroned in the hearts of kings, It is an attribute to God Himself; And earthly power doth then show likest God's, When Mercy seasons Justice. Therefore,...consider this — That, in the course of justice, none of ns Should gee salvation: we do pray for mercy, And that same prayer doth teach us all to render... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1855 - 1088 pages
...is an attribute to God himself, And earthly power doth then show likest God's, When mercy season« my counsel sway you in this case. Your daughter,...the princes left for dead ; Let her awhile be secr of us Should eco salvation : we do pray for mercy, And that same prayer doth teach us all to render... | |
 | Elizabeth Missing Sewell - 1855 - 408 pages
...LONDON: CLEVE HALL. JIT THK AUTHOR OF ' AMY HERBERT," "THE EXPERIENCE OF LIFE," ETC. ETC. •' Tho' justice be thy plea, consider this, That in the course of justice none of us Should see salvation." — The Merchant of Venice. IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. I. LONDON: LONGMAN, BROWN,... | |
 | 1856 - 374 pages
...But mercy is above this scepter'd sway, It is enthroned in the hearts of kings, It is an attribute to God himself ; And earthly power doth then shew likest God's, When mercy seasons justice. Therefore, Though justice be thy plea, consider this, — That, in the course of Justice, none of us Should see... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1858 - 672 pages
...enthroned in the hearts of kings, It is an attribute to God himself, And earthly power doth then show Hkest God's, When mercy seasons justice. Therefore, Jew,...consider this, — That in the course of justice none of ue Should see salvation : 33 we do pray for mercy , And that same prayer doth teach us all to render... | |
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