 Their palaces were houses not made with hands ; their diadems, crowns of glory which should never fade away. On the rich and the eloquent, on nobles and priests, they looked down with contempt, for they esteemed themselves rich in a more precious treasure,...  The baptist Magazine - Page 5121825Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1846 - 782 pages
...I.lbertU, XT. ST. with hands: their diadems crowns of glory which should never fade away ! On the rich and ew how unscrupulous, how implacable, would be the...the good part; and he called up all the force of his mysterious and terrible importance belonged — on whose slightest actions the spirits of light and... | |
 | Robert William Dale - 1846 - 160 pages
...not made with hands ; their diadems crowns of glory, which should never fade away! On the rich and the eloquent, on nobles and priests, they looked down...precious treasure, and eloquent in a more sublime language,—nobles by the right of an earlier creation, and priests by the imposition of a mightier... | |
 | George Gilfillan - 1846 - 508 pages
...eloquent, upon nobles and upon priests, with contempt, esteeming themselves rich in a more enduring treasure, and eloquent in a more sublime language,...and priests by the imposition of a mightier hand," — was magnificent. And with a like power has he since depicted Dryden and Machiavelli, Byrpn and... | |
 | 1846 - 318 pages
...its disciples in the seventeenth century, it is said by the most eloquent of modern essayists ; — " The very meanest of them was a being to whose fate a mysterious and terrible importance belonged, — on whose slightest action the spirits of light and... | |
 | Alexander Wilson M'Clure - 1846 - 322 pages
...to trace their lineage to men neither noble nor priestly by the power of man ; but yet " nobles by an earlier creation, and priests by the imposition of a mightier hand." This company sailed about the tenth of August, 1635. They had some rough weather, in which the decayed... | |
 | James William Massie - 1847 - 228 pages
...took the Enwith hands ; their diadems crowns of glory which should never fade away ! On the rich and the eloquent, on nobles and priests, they looked down...The very meanest of them was a being to whose fate a mysterious and terrible importance belonged, on whose slightest action the spirits of light and darkness... | |
 | 1847 - 462 pages
...contempt the ceremonious homage which other sects substituted for the homage of the soul. On the rich and the eloquent, on nobles and priests, they looked down...and priests by the imposition of a mightier hand." JOHN ENDECOTT, whose name is so intimately associated with the first settlement of this country, and... | |
 | James Sheridan Knowles - 1847 - 344 pages
...not made with hands ; their diadems crowns of glory which should never fade away ! On the rich and the eloquent, on nobles and priests, they looked down...and priests by the imposition of a mightier hand. slightest actions the spirits of light and darkness looked with anxious interest — who had been destined,... | |
 | 1847 - 498 pages
...contempt the ceremonious homage which other sects substituted for the homage of the soul. On the rich and the eloquent, on nobles and priests, they looked down...in a more precious treasure, and eloquent in a more sublitne language ; nobles by the right of an earlier creation, and priests by the imposition of a... | |
 | 1848 - 792 pages
...not made with hands ; their diadems crowns of glory, which should never fade away. On the rich and the eloquent, on nobles and priests, they looked down...The very meanest of them was a being to whose fate a mysterious and terrible importance belonged ; on whose slightest action the spirits of light and darkness... | |
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