 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, and eloquent in a more sublime language, nobles by the right of an earlier creation, and priests by the...  The Ant, publ. during 1826 and 1827 - Страница 334по Ant The - 1827Пълен достъп - Информация за книгата
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1843 - 390 страници
...language, nobles by the right of an earlier creation, and priests by the imposition of a mightier hand. 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 looked with anxious interest—who... | |
 | John Goldsbury, William Russell - 1844 - 440 страници
...language, nobles by the right of an earlier creation, and priests by the imposition of a migh30 tier hand. The very meanest of them was a being to whose fate...heaven and earth were created, to enjoy a felicity 35 which should continue when heaven and earth should have passed away. Events which short-sighted... | |
 | Robert Baird - 1844 - 552 страници
...language ; nobles by the right of an earlier creation, and priests by the imposition of a mightier hand. The very meanest of them was a being to whose fate...with anxious interest ; who had been destined, before the heavens and the earth were created, to enjoy a felicity which should continue when heaven and eartli... | |
 | Robert Baird - 1844 - 372 страници
...language ; nobles by the right of an earlier creation, and priests by the imposition of a mightier hand. The very meanest of them was a being to whose fate...with anxious interest ; who had been destined, before the heavens and the earth were created, to enjoy a felicity which should continue when heaven and earth... | |
 | John Goldsbury, William Russell - 1844 - 444 страници
...language, nobles by the right of an earlier creation, and priests by the imposition of a migb30 tier hand. The very meanest of them was a being- to whose fate...-on whose slightest action the spirits of light and dirkness looked with anxious interest, who had been destined, before heaven and earth were created,... | |
 | John Goldsbury, William Russell - 1844 - 444 страници
...language, nobles by the right of an earlier creation, and priests by the imposition of a migh30 tier hand. The very meanest of them was a being to whose fate a mysterious and terrible importance belonged, -•an whose slightest action the spirits of light and darkness looked with artxious interest, who... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1844 - 614 страници
...spirit* a. light and darkness looked with anxious imm-' — who had been destined, before heaven м: earth were created, to enjoy a felicity which should continue when heaven and eanii sboii have passed away. Events which short-eighth politicians ascribed to earthly causes had... | |
 | Jesse Olney - 1845 - 348 страници
...nobles by the right of an earlier creation, — and, priests by the imposition of a mightier hand. 6. The very meanest of them was a being to whose fate...action the spirits of light and darkness looked with anxiosn. interest, who had been destined, before heaven and earth were created, to enjoy a felicity... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1846 - 782 страници
...language, nobles by the right of an earlier creation, and priests by the imposition of a mightier hand. The very meanest of them was a being to whose fate...terrible importance belonged — on whose slightest actions the spirits of light and darkness looked with anxious interest — who had been destined, before... | |
 | 1846 - 318 страници
...its disciples in the seventeenth century, it is said by the most eloquent of modern essayists ;—" 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 looked with anxious interest,—who... | |
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