lawgiver

Were the experiment to be seriously made, though it required some effort to view it seriously even in fiction, I leave it to be decided by the sample of opinions just exhibited, whether, with all their enmity to their predecessors, they would, in any one point, depart so widely from their example, as in the discord and ferment that would mark their own deliberations; and whether the Constitution, now before the public, would not stand as fair a chance for immortality, as Lycurgus gave to that of Sparta, by making its change to depend on his own return from exile and death, if it were to be immediately adopted, and were to continue in force, not until a BETTER, but until ANOTHER should be agreed upon by this new assembly of lawgivers.

I am not going out under human guidance, subject to the defective laws and erring control of my feeble fellow-worms: my king, my lawgiver, my captain, is the All-perfect.

He needs no library, for he has not done thinking; no church, for he is a prophet; no statute book, for he has the lawgiver; no money, for he is value; no road, for he is at home where he is; no experience, for the life of the creator shoots through him, and looks from his eyes.

Nothing was too trivial for the Hindoo lawgiver, however offensive it may be to modern taste.

"Such indeed was the opinion of the great lawgiver of the Jews, but the Egyptians, and the Chaldeans, the Greeks, and the Romans, were wont to manifest their gratitude, in these types of the human form.

"Idomeneus," said he, "lawgiver to the Cretans, what has now become of the threats with which the sons of the Achaeans used to threaten the Trojans?"

He had had no warnings, and he had concluded as a matter of course that Bunster would be like other white men, a drinker of much whiskey, a ruler and a lawgiver who always kept his word and who never struck a boy undeserved.

Secondly, my people were perfectly subjected - I was absolutely lord and lawgiver - they all owed their lives to me, and were ready to lay down their lives, if there had been occasion for it, for me.

The lawgivers in Albany recently passed various "reforms" to make it easier to vote.

An art installation of famous 'lawgivers' hangs above the gallery doors in the House of Representatives of the United States.

As citizens of their new democracy, they are the rulers and the ruled, the lawgivers and the law-abiding.

Western democracies, like the US have borrowed from Islamic democratic canons in their constitution and acknowledged our Holy Prophet (PBUH) as one of the greatest lawgivers of the world as depicted on the Supreme Court friezes.

Some 2,300 years ago, Aristotle wrote in his Nichomachean Ethics: 'Friendship seems to hold states together and lawgivers to care more for it than for justice.'

Among the topics are the Prophet Muhammad in pre-modern Jewish literature, representation of the Prophet in Shi'ite Qajar Iran, a 16th-century European author portrait of Muhammad and medieval Latin traditions of Qur'an reading, the Prophet Muhammad as Arabian knight in a Spanish Qur'an translation of 1872, and Masonic fraternalism and Muhammad among the lawgivers in Adloph A.

The Federalist likewise surveys some of the great lawgivers of antiquity, some 14 in all, including Lycurgus, the founder of Sparta, and Solon, who established the democratic constitution in Athens.