 ... daily contemplation of superior beings and eternal interests. 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...  Essays, Critical and Miscellaneous - Sivu 16tekijä(t) Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1858 - 744 sivuaKoko teos - Tietoja tästä kirjasta
 | John Warner Barber - 1839 - 674 sivua
...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, to enjoy him, was...ceremonious homage which other sects substituted for the homage of the soul. — On the rich and the eloquent, on nobles and priests, they looked down with... | |
 | 1866 - 580 sivua
...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, to enjoy Him, was...through an obscuring veil, they aspired to gaze full on His intolerable brightness, and to commune with Him face to face. Hence originated their contempt for... | |
 | 1844 - 602 sivua
...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, to enjoy him, was...through an obscuring veil, they aspired to gaze full on his intolerable brightness, and to commune with him face to face. Hence originated their contempt for... | |
 | John Goldsbury, William Russell - 1844 - 444 sivua
...Great Being, for whose power nothing was too vast, fw whose inspection nothing was too minute. To kn6w Him, to serve Him, to enjoy Him, was with them the...homage which other sects substituted for the pure 5 worship of the soul. Instead of catching occasional glimpses of the Deity through an obscuring veil,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1846 - 782 sivua
...will of the Great Being, for whose power nothing was too vast, for whose inspection nothing was too ever be fell, obscnring veil, they aspired to gaze full on the intolerable brightness, and to commune with him face... | |
 | 1847 - 498 sivua
...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, to enjoy him, was...ceremonious homage which other sects substituted for the homage of the soul. On the rich and the eloquent, on nobles and priests, they looked down with contempt... | |
 | 1848 - 778 sivua
...the will of the Great 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...rejected with contempt the ceremonious homage which Qther sects substituted for the pure worship of the soul. Instead of catching occasional glimpses of... | |
 | 1856 - 666 sivua
...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, to enjoy Him, was...Deity through an obscuring veil, they aspired to gaze on the intolerable brightness, and to commune with Him face to face. Hence originated their contempt... | |
 | 1849 - 818 sivua
...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, to enjoy him, was...occasional glimpses of the Deity through an obscuring veil, 'hoy aspired to gaze full on the intolerable brightness, and to commune with him face to face. Hence... | |
 | 1837 - 588 sivua
...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, to enjoy him, was,...ceremonious homage which other sects substituted for the homage of the soul On the rich and the eloquent, on nobles and priests, they looked down with contempt... | |
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