Not content with acknowledging in general terms an overruling Providence, they habitually ascribed every event to the will of the great Being for whose power nothing was too vast, for whose inspection nothing was too minute. To know him, to serve him,... Lord Macaulay's Essays and Lays of Ancient Rome - Página 23por Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1885 - 898 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| 1832 - 852 páginas
...Being for whose power nothing was too vast, for whose inspection nothing was too minute. To know Him, to serve Him, to enjoy Him, was with them the great...through an obscuring veil, they aspired to gaze full on the intolerable brightness, and to commune with him face to face. Hence originated their contempt for... | |
| 1825 - 570 páginas
...him, was with them the great end of existence. They rejected with contempt the ceremonious bornage which other sects substituted for the pure worship...through an obscuring veil, they aspired to gaze full on the intolerable brightness, and to commune with him face to face. Hence originated their contempt for... | |
| 1826 - 596 páginas
...Being, for whose power nothing was too vast, for whose inspection nothing was too minute. To know him, to serve him, to enjoy him, was with them the great...through an obscuring veil, they aspired to gaze full on the intolerable brightness, and to commune with him face to face. Hence originated their contempt for... | |
| Ant The - 1827 - 366 páginas
...Being, for whose power nothing was too vast, for whose inspection nothing was too minute. To know him, to serve him, to enjoy him, was with them the great...through an obscuring veil, they aspired to gaze full on the intolerable brightness, and to commune with him face to face. Hence originated their contempt for... | |
| Ebenezer Porter - 1828 - 452 páginas
...to serve him, to enjoy him, was with them the great end of existence. They rejected with con10 tempt the ceremonious homage which other sects substituted...through an obscuring veil, they aspired to gaze full on the intolerable brightness, and to commune with him face to face. 15 Hence originated their contempt... | |
| Samuel Phillips Newman - 1829 - 270 páginas
...Great Being, for whose power nothing was too vast, for whose inspection nothing was too minute. To know him, was with them the great end of existence. They...through an obscuring veil, they aspired to gaze full on the intolerable brightness, and to commune with him face to face. Hence originated their contempt for... | |
| Edward Robinson - 1848 - 590 páginas
...Being, for whose power nothing is too vast, for whose inspection nothing is too minute. To know Him, to serve Him, to enjoy Him, was with them the great...through an obscuring veil, they aspired to gaze full on the intolerable brightness, and commune with Him face to face. Hence originated their contempt of earthly... | |
| James Hedderwick - 1833 - 232 páginas
...Being, for whose power nothing was too vast, for whose inspection nothing was too minute. To know him, to serve him, to enjoy him, was with them the great...through an obscuring veil, they aspired to gaze full on the intolerable brightness, and to commune with him face to face. Hence originated their contempt for... | |
| 1835 - 932 páginas
...Being, for whose power nothing was too vast, for whose inspection nothing was too minute. To know him, to serve him, to enjoy him, was with them the great...through an obscuring veil, they aspired to gaze full on the intolerable brightness, and to commune with him face to face. Hence originated their contempt for... | |
| 1836 - 332 páginas
...Being, for whose power nothing was too vast, for whose inspection nothing was too minute. To know him, to serve him, to enjoy him, was with them the great...through an obscuring veil, they aspired to gaze full on the intolerable brightness, and to commune with him face to face. Hence originated their contempt for... | |
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