 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, Critical and Miscellaneous - Página 16por Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1859 - 744 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | David Bates Tower, Cornelius Walker - 1854 - 440 páginas
...was a being to whose fate :t mysterious and terrible importance belonged ; on whose slightest action the spirits of light and darkness looked with anxious...created, to enjoy a felicity which should continue when heaven and earth should have passed away. Events, which shortsighted politicians ascribed to earthly... | |
 | 1855 - 424 páginas
...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. The...who had been destined, before heaven and earth were ereated, to enjoy a felicity which should continue when heaven and earth have passed away. Events,... | |
 | Thomas Bangs Thorpe - 1855 - 412 páginas
...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. The...terrible importance belonged ; on whose slightest action the spirits of light and darkness looked with anxious interest ; who had been destined, before... | |
 | 1855 - 616 páginas
...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. The...and terrible importance belonged, on whose slightest action the spirits of light and darkness looked with anxious interest, who had been destined, as they... | |
 | 1856 - 428 páginas
...a being to whose fate, a mysterious and terrible importance belonged, — on whose slightest action the spirits of light and darkness looked with anxious...created, to enjoy a felicity which should continue, when heaven and earth should have passed away. Events which shortsighted politicians ascribed to earthly... | |
 | 1856 - 598 páginas
...them was a being to whom a mysterious and terrible importance belonged ; on whose slightest action the spirits of light and darkness looked with anxious...created, to enjoy a felicity which should continue when heaven and earth have passed away. For his sake empires had risen, and flourished, and decayed. For... | |
 | Thomas Buckley Smith - 1858 - 310 páginas
...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. The...terrible importance belonged, — on whose slightest action the spirits of light and darkness looked with anxious interest; who had been destined, before... | |
 | Leroy Jones Halsey - 1859 - 448 páginas
...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. The...created to enjoy a felicity which should continue when heaven and earth should have passed away. Events which short-sighted politicians ascribed to earthly... | |
 | Arthur Mursell - 1859 - 164 páginas
...being to whose fate a mysterious and terrible importance belonged, on whose slightest word and action the spirits of light and darkness looked with anxious...Earth were created to enjoy a felicity which should endure when Heaven and' Earth should have passed away. Events which shortsighted politicians ascribed... | |
 | David Masson - 1860 - 282 páginas
...right of an earlier creation, and priests by the imposition of a mightier hand. The very meanest oi them was a being to whose fate a mysterious and terrible...created, to enjoy a felicity which should continue when heaven and earth thould have passed away. Events which shortsighted politicians ascribed to earthly... | |
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