 eloquent, on nobles and priests they looked down with contempt: for they esteemed themselves rich in a more 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...  Critical, Historical, and Miscellaneous Essays - Sivu 255tekijä(t) Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1860Koko teos - Tietoja tästä kirjasta
 | 1825 - 570 sivua
...made with hands: their diadems, crowns of glory which should never fade away! On" the rich und the eloquent, on nobles and priests they looked down with...nobles by the right of an earlier creation, and priests l>y the imposition oft mightier hand. The very meanest of «hem was a being t o whose fate » m}«tenonsand... | |
 | 1825 - 582 sivua
...made with banus: 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 moro precious treasure, and eloquent in a more sublime langnage; nobles by the right of an earlier... | |
 | John White (A.M.) - 1826 - 340 sivua
...their diadems crowns of glory, which should never fade away ! On the rich and the eloquent, on nobks and priests, they looked down with contempt: For they esteemed themselves rich in a more preciottS treasure, and eloquent in a more sublime language; nobles by the right of an earlier creation,... | |
 | Ant The - 1827 - 366 sivua
...palaces were houses not made with hands; their diadems crowns of glory which should never fade away ! The very meanest of them was a being to whose fate a mysterious and terrible importance belonged; on whose slightest action the spirits of light and darkness... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - 1828 - 418 sivua
...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...esteemed themselves rich in a more precious treasure, and elo35 quent in a more sublime language, nobles by the right of an earlier creation, and priests by... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - 1828 - 452 sivua
...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...esteemed themselves rich in a more precious treasure, and elo35 quent in a more sublime language, nobles by the right of an earlier creation, and priests by... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1830 - 592 sivua
...of whom our Modern Critic T 2 “noblemen and priests” in their own seraphic way, for” they were nobles by the right of an earlier creation and priests by the imposition of a mightier hand.” If their biblical names were not “registered at the Heralds'-cohlege, they were recorded in the Book... | |
 | Samuel Phillips Newman - 1829 - 270 sivua
...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...an earlier creation, and priests by the imposition (/ a mightier hand. The very meanest of them was a being to whose fate a mysterious and terrible importance... | |
 | Jesse Olney - 1830 - 720 sivua
...short-sighted politicians ascribed to earthly causes, had been ordained on his account. 5. On the rich and the eloquent, on nobles and priests, they looked down...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... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - 1830 - 420 sivua
...and terrible importance belonged—on whose slightest action the spirits of light On the rich and the eloquent, on nobles and priests, they looked down...esteemed themselves rich in a more precious treasure, and elo40 and darkness looked with anxious interest, who had been destined, before heaven and earth were... | |
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