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 Eclectic review. vol. 1-New [8th] - Página 5141849Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| George Gilfillan - 1846 - 508 páginas
...priests, with contempt, esteeming themselves rich in a more enduring treasure, and eloquent in a more sublime language, — nobles by the right of an earlier...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... | |
| Robert William Dale - 1846 - 160 páginas
...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 imposition of a mightier hand."* Puritans ! your name shall be hallowed while liberty is dear to MAN, and freedom of thought is prized... | |
| 1846 - 318 páginas
...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 darkness looked with anxious interest,—who... | |
| Alexander Wilson M'Clure - 1846 - 322 páginas
...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 Sheridan Knowles - 1847 - 344 páginas
...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...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 - 462 páginas
...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...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... | |
| 1847 - 498 páginas
...contempt ; for they esteemed themselves rich 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 mightier hand." JOHN ENDECOTT, whose name is so intimately associated with the first settlement of this country, and... | |
| 1848 - 786 páginas
...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...with anxious interest ; who had been destined before the heavens and earth were created, to enjoy a felicity which should continue when heaven and earth... | |
| 1848 - 792 páginas
...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...with anxious interest ; who had been destined before the heavens and earth were created, to enjoy a felicity which should continue wbtu heaven and earth... | |
| 1848 - 780 páginas
...esteemed themselves rich in a more precious treasure, and eloquent in a more sublime language ; rfobles, by the right of an earlier creation, and priests by...with anxious interest ; who had been destined before the heavens and earth were created, to enjoy a felicity which should continue when heaven and earth... | |
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