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, and eloquent in a more sublime language, nobles by the right of an earlier creation, and priests by the... Essays on Milton and Addison - Página 78por Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1902 - 315 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| 1832 - 852 páginas
...eloquent, on nobles and priests, they looked down with contempt ; for they esteemed themselves rich in a more precious treasure, and eloquent in a more...was a being to whose fate a mysterious and terrible importance belonged ; on whose slightest action the spirits of light and darkness looked with anxious... | |
| 1820 - 590 páginas
...and they ought to feel, — what lias been eloquently said of the Puritans too — " that they are nobles by the right of an earlier creation, and priests by the imposition of a mightier hand." But to return ; as all who are in advance of the body of the community are necessarily dissenters,... | |
| 1825 - 570 páginas
...the eloquent, on nobles and priests they looked down with contempt: for they esteemed themselves rich in a more precious treasure, and eloquent in a more...The very meanest of them was a being to whose fate a ni3s620 521 tenons and terrible importance belonged — on whose slightest action the spirits of light... | |
| 1825 - 582 páginas
...eloquent, on nobles and priests they looked down with contempt : for they esteemed themselves rich in a more precious treasure, and eloquent in a more...The very meanest of them was a being to whose fate * rnjs520 ' .¡..us and terrible importance belonged — on whose slightest action the spirits of light... | |
| 1826 - 596 páginas
...eloquent, on nobles and priests, they looked down with contempt: For they esteemed themselves rich in a more precious treasure, and eloquent in a more...was a being to whose fate a mysterious and terrible importance belonged — on whose slightest action the Spirits of light and darkness looked with anxious... | |
| John White (A.M.) - 1826 - 340 páginas
...and priests, they looked down with contempt: For they esteemed themselves rich in a more preciottS treasure, and eloquent in a more sublime language;...The very meanest of them was a being to whose fate a mfysteirious and terrible importance belonged-*-ori'-^*hbse slightest action the spirits of light and... | |
| Orville Dewey - 1826 - 44 páginas
...feel, and they ought to feel,—what has been eloquently said of the Puritans too—" that they are nobles by the right of an earlier creation, and priests by the imposition of a mightier hand." But to return ; as all who are in advance of the body of the community are necessarily dissenters,... | |
| Ant The - 1827 - 366 páginas
...palaces were houses not made with hands; their diadems crowns of glory which should never fade away ! 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 looked with anxious... | |
| Ebenezer Porter - 1828 - 414 páginas
...down with contempt: for they esteemed themselves rich in a more precious treasure, and elo35 quent in a more sublime language, nobles by the right of...was a being to whose fate a mysterious and terrible importance belonged — on whose slightest action the spirits of light 40 and darkness looked with... | |
| Isaac Disraeli - 1830 - 592 páginas
...these men of whom our Modern Critic "noblemen and priests" in their own seraphic way, for " they were nobles by the right of an earlier creation and priests by the imposition of a mightier hand." If their biblical names were not " registered at the Heralds'-college, they were recorded in the Book... | |
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