 | Isaac Dowd Williamson - 1850 - 424 pagina’s
...is granted, that, under the best of circumstances, hypocrisy may deceive, and dishonesty may " steal the livery of the court of heaven to serve the devil in." It is granted, also, that God only can see the heart, and that he alone can know, whether the hidden... | |
 | 1851 - 770 pagina’s
...Puritanism still clings around much of the population of the North. And what was that Puritanism ? It was a spirit of religious enthusiasm, which had...still see the mainspring of its sentiment and action : — thatjis, an earnest wish to prevent people from enjoying themselves. It pretends to act through... | |
 | 1850 - 426 pagina’s
...priests who have ministered at the altars of religion, and the hypocrisy of "saints " , who have stolen " the livery of the court of heaven, To serve the devil in," is a question which may be left to the judgment of the reader. To minds accustomed to the contemplation... | |
 | Avery Allyn - 1853 - 370 pagina’s
...institution, I will re B late : it fully illustrates the consistency of a masonic Chrit tian! " Who stole the livery of the court of heaven, To serve the devil in ; in virtue's guise," " Transacted villanies, That common sinners durst not meddle with." In the state... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - 1853 - 442 pagina’s
...show of truth, Can cunning sin cover itself withal ! Shakspeare. The hypocrite was a man, Who stole the livery of the court of heaven, To serve the devil in. Pdlok. I. IDLENESS. Go to the ant, thou sluggard, learn to live, And by her busy ways, reform thine... | |
 | Cyclopaedia, Henry Gardiner Adams - 1854 - 762 pagina’s
...revelation! in the grave The hypocrite had left his mask, and stood In naked ugliness. He was a man Who stole the livery of the court of heaven To serve the devil in; in virtue's guise, Devoured the widow's house and orphan's bread; In holy phrase, transacted villanies... | |
 | Francis H. Berick - 1854 - 394 pagina’s
...cause, but scarcely satisfies himself — the hypocrite, with his sanctimonious countenance, who " stole the livery of the court of heaven to serve the devil in," grows pale — thus betokening his disquiet state of mind. " Hear what he was ; he swore in sight of... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1856 - 660 pagina’s
...Ocean's mane " And played familiar with his hoary locks. Book viii. Line 616. He was a man Who stole the livery of the court of Heaven To serve the Devil in. Book viii. Line 632. With one hand he put A penny in the urn of poverty, And with the other took a... | |
 | 1856 - 790 pagina’s
...sounds of earth would be nothing in comparison. A RELIGIOUS HYPOCRITE is an arrant thief, who steals the livery of the court of heaven to serve the devil in. GRIEF FOR SIN often lies too deep for eye-tears. It is a wound in the heart, which would bleed to death,... | |
 | 1856 - 604 pagina’s
...the great majority of the American people will disown them. They are false Americans, men " Who steal the livery of the court of heaven, To serve the devil in." And the mischief they devise against us will recoil upon their own heads, and work their own confusion.... | |
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