 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 - Page 334by Ant The - 1827Full view - About this book
 | Baptists - 1825 - 582 pages
...imposition of a mightier hand. The very meanest of them was a being to whose fate * rnjs520 ' .¡..us and terrible importance belonged — on whose slightest action the spirits of light and darkness luukcd with anxious interest — who had been destined, before heaven and earth were created, to enjoy... | |
 | 1825 - 570 pages
...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 ni3s620 521 tenons and terrible importance belonged — on whose slightest action the spirits of light... | |
 | John White (A.M.) - 1826 - 340 pages
...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 mfysteirious and terrible importance belonged-*-ori'-^*hbse slightest action the spirits of light and... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - Elocution - 1828 - 452 pages
...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...— on whose slightest action the spirits of light 40 and darkness looked with anxious interest, who had been destined, before heaven and earth were created,... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - Great Britain - 1830 - 592 pages
...The indomitable being whom we have now to delineate, was yet unheard of in history or in fiction. " The very meanest of them was a being to whose fate...mysterious and terrible importance belonged ; on whose slighest action the spirits of light and darkness looked with anxious interest, and who had been destined... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - Elocution - 1828 - 418 pages
...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 45 ordained on his account. For his sake... | |
 | Edward Robinson - 1848 - 590 pages
...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 earth were created, to enjoy a felicity which should continue when heaven and earth... | |
 | 1835 - 932 pages
...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...importance belonged — on whose slightest action to spirits of light and darkness looked with anxious interest, who had been destined, before heaven... | |
 | Jesse Olney - Readers - 1838 - 346 pages
...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... | |
 | J. Fletcher - 1842 - 478 pages
...— 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...of light and darkness looked with anxious interest, and who had been destined, before heaven and earth were created, to enjoy a felicity which should continue... | |
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