 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,...  Essays, English and American - Pagina 229door Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1920 - 464 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | 1820 - 590 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
...which should never fade away! On the rich :ind the eloquent, on nobles and priests they looked down with contempt: for they esteemed themselves rich in...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 pagina’s
...which should never fade away ! On tbe rich and the eloquent, on nobles and priests they looked down with contempt : for they esteemed themselves rich...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... | |
 | John White (A.M.) - 1826 - 340 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
...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,... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - 1828 - 418 pagina’s
...have passed away. Events which shortsighted politicians ascribed to earthly causes, had been 35 quent in a more sublime language, nobles by the right of...to whose fate a mysterious and terrible importance belonged—on whose slightest action the spirits of light 45 ordained on his account. For his sake... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1830 - 592 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - 1828 - 414 pagina’s
...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, and elo35 quent in a more sublime language, nobles by the right of an earlier creation, and priests by... | |
 | Samuel Phillips Newman - 1829 - 270 pagina’s
...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...an earlier creation, and priests by the imposition (/ a mightier hand. The very meanest of them was a being to whose fate a mysterious and terrible importance... | |
 | 1835 - 932 pagina’s
...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...importance belonged — on whose slightest action to spirits of light and darkness looked with anxious interest, who had been destined, before heaven... | |
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