It is common to think that the biblical lawgiver only constructs laws as a direct response to social and economic forces in his time. From LearnThat.org. [www.yourdictionary.com]
The lawgiver is to be a primary source of instruction about what is fine, just and good. From Wordnik.com. [Plato on utopia] Reference
It is scarcely questioned that this provision was intended by those who made it for the reclaiming of what we call fugitive slaves; and the intention of the lawgiver is the law. From Wordnik.com. [US Presidential Inaugural Addresses] Reference
Of these improvements the lawgiver was the cause; for the workmen having no more employment in matters of mere curiosity, showed the excellence of their art in necessary things. From Wordnik.com. [Ideal Commonwealths] Reference
It is scarcely questioned that this provision was intended by those who made it for the reclaiming of what we call fugitive slaves, and the intention of the lawgiver is the law. From Wordnik.com. [President Lincoln's Inaugural Address] Reference
It is scarcely questioned that this provision was intended by those who made it for the re-claiming of what we call fugitive slaves; and the intention of the lawgiver is the law. From Wordnik.com. [American Eloquence, Volume 4 Studies In American Political History (1897)] Reference
Only rarely does the statesman or 'lawgiver' appear, just when he is wanted, to bring Israel up out of. From Wordnik.com. [The Unity of Civilization] Reference
Modern Turks like to boast of his armies reaching the gates of Vienna and to refer to him as the "lawgiver". From Wordnik.com. [The Economist: Correspondent's diary] Reference
"It is scarcely questioned that this provision was intended by those who made it for the reclaiming of what we call fugitive slaves; and the intention of the lawgiver is the law. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880. Vol. 2 (of 2) Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens] Reference
Why has Justinian been called the "lawgiver of civilization"?. From Wordnik.com. [Early European History] Reference
Andromadas Reginus, a lawgiver to the Thracian Calcidians, 65. From Wordnik.com. [Politics: A Treatise on Government] Reference
Andromadas Regmus was also a lawgiver to the Thracian talcidians. From Wordnik.com. [Politics: A Treatise on Government] Reference
There is one lawgiver and judge, that is able to destroy and to deliver. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 66: James The Challoner Revision] Reference
Passover, their lawgiver meant to teach them by type that in worshipping. From Wordnik.com. [The Parables of Our Lord] Reference
It is certain that the lawgiver did much to remedy this ruinous state of affairs. From Wordnik.com. [General History for Colleges and High Schools] Reference
The conquests of Justinian proved to be less enduring than his work as a lawgiver. From Wordnik.com. [Early European History] Reference
The king was at once the lawgiver, the judge, and the military leader of his people. From Wordnik.com. [General History for Colleges and High Schools] Reference
'Jupiter,' she cries, 'for thou art reputed lawgiver of hospitality, grant that this be. From Wordnik.com. [The Aeneid of Virgil] Reference
The created thing is not greater than its creator or the law greater than the lawgiver. From Wordnik.com. [Studies in the Life of the Christian] Reference
He was the natural umpire between his adult offspring, he was their lawgiver and leader. From Wordnik.com. [Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject] Reference
It is possible that this scientific method sometimes makes its author too bold a lawgiver. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 104, June, 1866] Reference
For the Lord is our judge, the Lord is our lawgiver, the Lord is our king: he will save us. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 27: Isaias The Challoner Revision] Reference
Appoint, O Lord, a lawgiver over them: that the Gentiles may know themselves to be but men. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 21: Psalms The Challoner Revision] Reference
High, and were in jeopardy every hour, that they might keep the law of the lawgiver perfectly. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete] Reference
Such was genius, and such was literature, in the representation of their first great lawgiver. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864] Reference
He is said to have studied with great zeal the laws of Minos, the legendary lawgiver of the Cretans. From Wordnik.com. [General History for Colleges and High Schools] Reference
"But Moses was the first lawgiver to forbid taking the nether millstone as a pledge," objected Robin. From Wordnik.com. [The Master-Knot of Human Fate] Reference
Egypt and Palestine, but is more celebrated as a lawgiver, a patron of letters and a founder of towns. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon"] Reference
Circumnavigator of the realms of mind, wherever he touched, he appeared as discoverer, as conqueror, as lawgiver. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 08, June 1858] Reference
Every one of you wants to be a lawgiver, a statesman, and a reformer, and to manage the public affairs in his own way. From Wordnik.com. [Stories from Thucydides] Reference
A mystery and halo were thrown about them by their being attributed to the creative genius of a single lawgiver, Lycurgus. From Wordnik.com. [General History for Colleges and High Schools] Reference
Time itself, which works such mighty changes in all things, produces a state of circumstances not in the mind of the lawgiver. From Wordnik.com. [An Essay on Professional Ethics Second Edition] Reference
The well, which the princes dug, and the chiefs of the people prepared by the direction of the lawgiver, and with their staves. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 04: Numbers The Challoner Revision] Reference
We sometimes think of the teacher as a lawgiver, and of the learner as one who with docility receives what is graciously given. From Wordnik.com. [By the Christmas Fire] Reference
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