by the right of an earlier creation and priests by the imposition of a mightier hand. 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... Essays, Critical and Miscellaneous - Página 16por Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1852 - 744 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Ellen E. Kenyon-Warner - 1910 - 298 páginas
...palaces were houses not made with hands; their diadems, crowns of glory which should never fade away. 4. On the rich and the eloquent, on nobles and priests,...continue when heaven and earth should have passed away. 5. Events which short-sighted politicians ascribed to earthly causes had been ordained on his account.... | |
 | 1911 - 606 páginas
...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...enjoy a felicity which should continue when heaven aud earth should have passed away. Events which short-sighted politicians ascribed to earthly causes,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1914 - 192 páginas
...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...ordained on his account. For his sake empires had 10 risen, and flourished, and decayed. For his sake the Almighty had proclaimed his will by the pen... | |
 | John Lord - 1921 - 968 páginas
...terrible iiBpotfeanCe bfefonged ;• oa whose slightest action the spirits 6l light aikl darknessl looked with anxious interest ; who had been destined,...should have passed away. Events which short-sighted politi* tiians ascribed to earthly causes had been ordained on his account. For his sake empires had... | |
 | 1859 - 458 páginas
...meanest of them was a being to whose fate a mysterious and terrible importance belonged, — a being who had been destined, before heaven and earth were...continue, when heaven and earth, should have passed away." These men were Calvinists. It was this intense faith, that inspired them with such grand conceptions... | |
 | 1850 - 348 páginas
...action the spirits of light and darkness looked with anxious interest, who had heen destined, hefore heaven and earth were created, to enjoy a felicity...passed away. Events which short-sighted politicians ascrihed to earthly causes, had heen ordained on his account. For his sake empires had risen, and flourished,... | |
 | Richard Edwards - 1867 - 368 páginas
...menials, legions of ministering angels had charge over them. 3. Their palaces were houses not made with hands ; their diadems, crowns of glory which...continue when heaven and earth should have passed away. 4. Events which short-sighted politicians ascribed to earthly causes had been ordained on his account.... | |
 | Baron Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay - 160 páginas
...whose slightest action the spirits of light and darkness looked with anxious interest, who had been 20 destined, before heaven and earth were created, to...on his account. For his sake empires had risen, and 25 flourished, and decayed. For his sake the Almighty had proclaimed his will by the pen of the Evangelist... | |
 | 1853 - 432 páginas
...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...continue when heaven and earth should have passed away. * * *. Thus the Puritan was made np of two different men, the one all self-abasement, penitence, gratitude,... | |
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