 I endeavoured to approach it the farther it seemed to recede, till at last it vanished altogether, " like the baseless fabric of a vision, leaving not a wreck behind.  Marriage: A Novel ... - Pagina 175door Susan Ferrier - 1819Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | William Reid (political economist.) - 1832 - 68 pagina’s
...yet hear the yell of despair which the ruined speculators"raised, when their golden dreams vanished 'like the baseless fabric of a vision, leaving 'not a wreck behind-' It were to trespass on, the feelings of my indulgent reader, were I to. attempt to describe/the agonizing... | |
 | 1839 - 416 pagina’s
...motive, crime no incentive, hypocrisy no inducement; where the dark catalogue of human crime shall vanish " like the baseless fabric of a vision, leaving not a wreck behind." With strong hope nnd determined mind, I remain ready, with my humble powers, Your Brother Socialist,... | |
 | Modern atheism - 1853 - 242 pagina’s
...Arrian also saw it towards. AD 150. But with all its amplitude and magnificence it has passed away, like " the baseless fabric; of a vision, leaving not a wreck behind." On this subject Colonel Tod says, that there are no fine specimens of architecture in India, that date... | |
 | Robert Rantoul (Jr.) - 1854 - 892 pagina’s
...called. The charges of this report are, therefore, wholly groundless. Before a strict examination, they vanish like the baseless fabric of a vision, leaving not a wreck behind. SUSPENSION OF SPECIE PAYMENTS.* For a bank to decline to pay its notes, merely because it is more convenient... | |
 | Thomas Hart Benton - 1854 - 784 pagina’s
...the constitutionality of the bank being removed, the decision itself vanishes — disappears — " like the baseless fabric of a vision, leaving not a wreck behind." But there will be a time hereafter for the celebration of this victory of the constitution over the... | |
 | Thomas Hart Benton - 1854 - 804 pagina’s
...the constitutionality of the bank being removed, the decision itself vanishes — disappears — " like the baseless fabric of a vision, leaving not a wreck behind." But there will be a time hereafter for the celebration of this victory of the constitution over the... | |
 | Joseph Baylee - 1857 - 222 pagina’s
...that vanity induces men to put forward theories and to make assertions, which some future critic makes like the baseless fabric of a vision, leaving not a wreck behind. Yet I am far indeed from decrying imperfect theories. They are thesteps of the ladder by which the... | |
 | Thomas Hart Benton - 1858 - 822 pagina’s
...the constitutionality of the bank being removed, the decision itself vanishes — disappears — " like the baseless fabric of a vision, leaving not a wreck behind." But there will bo a time hereafter for the celebration of this victory of the constitution over the... | |
 | LYMAN COLEMAN - 1860 - 192 pagina’s
...region of country, which future research may possibly reveal, but more probably they are dissolved like the baseless fabric of a vision, leaving not a wreck behind. CHAPTER III. THE PERIOD OF THE PATRIARCHS; FROM THE PROMISE TO THE EXODE, 430 YEARS. AM 2086 + 430... | |
 | Lyman Coleman - 1860 - 218 pagina’s
...region of country, which future research may possibly reveal, but more probably they are dissolved like the baseless fabric of a vision, leaving not a wreck behind. CHAPTER III. THE PERIOD OP TUB PATRIARCHS; FROM THE PROMISE TO THE EXODE, 430 TEARS. AM 2086 + 430... | |
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