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, Critical and Miscellaneous - Página 16por Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1858 - 744 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| 1835 - 932 páginas
...angels had charge over them. Their palaces were houses not made with hands; their diadems crowns of glory which should never fade away ! On the rich and...was a being to whose fate a mysterious and terrible importance belonged — on whose slightest action to spirits of light and darkness looked with anxious... | |
| John Warner Barber - 1836 - 598 páginas
...rejected with contempt, the ceremonious homage which other sects substituted for the homage of the soul On the rich and the eloquent, on nobles and priests,...and priests by the imposition of a mightier hand!" These were the men to whom the world owes the preservation of civil and religious liberty, their enemies... | |
| 1836 - 332 páginas
...angels had charge over them. Their palaces were houses not made with hands ; their diadems crowns f glory which should never fade away ! On the rich and...for they esteemed themselves rich in a more precious tiv;i sure, and eloquent in a more sublime language ; nobles by the right of an earlier creation, and... | |
| British and foreign young men's society - 1837 - 556 páginas
...were houses not made with hands ; their diadems crowns of glory which should never fade away ! Oil the rich and the eloquent, on nobles and priests,...was a being to whose fate a mysterious and terrible importance belonged — on whose slightest action the spirits of light and darkness looked with anxious... | |
| Jesse Olney - 1838 - 346 páginas
...palaces were houses not made with hands ; their diadems crowns of glory which should never fade away ! 5. On the rich and the eloquent, on nobles and priests,...and, priests by the imposition of a mightier hand. 6. The very meanest of them was a being to whose fate a mysterious and terrible importance belonged... | |
| John Warner Barber - 1839 - 674 páginas
...on nobles and priests, they looked down with contempt ; for they esteemed themselves rich in a mom precious treasure, and eloquent in a more sublime...and priests by the imposition of a mightier hand." Let those who sneer at such an ancestry go back to the titled robbers of the middle ages, and claim... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1840 - 466 páginas
...angels had charge over them. Their palaces were houses not made with hands; their diadems crowns of glory which should never fade away ! On the rich and...was a being to whose fate a mysterious and terrible importance belonged — on whose slightest action the Spirits of light and darkness looked with anxious... | |
| Charles Hodge, Lyman Hotchkiss Atwater - 1840 - 644 páginas
...angels had charge over them. Their palaces were houses not made with hands; their diadems crowns of glory which should never fade away! On the rich and...was a being to whose fate a mysterious and terrible importance belonged — on whose slightest action the Spirits of light and darkness looked with anxious... | |
| John Warner Barber - 1840 - 672 páginas
...with contempt the ceremonious homage v.'hich other sects substituted for the homage of the soul. — On the rich and the eloquent, on nobles and priests,...and priests by the imposition of a mightier hand." Let those who sneer at such an ancestry go back to the titled robbers of the middle ages, and claim... | |
| John Warner Barber - 1841 - 678 páginas
...with contempt the ceremonious homage which other sects substituted for the homage of the soul.—On the rich and the eloquent, on nobles and priests,...precious treasure, and eloquent in a more sublime language;—nobles by the right of an earlier creation, and priests by the imposition of a mightier... | |
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