| 1820 - 590 pages
...and they ought to feel, — what lias been eloquently said of the Puritans too — " that they are nobles by the right of an earlier creation, and priests by the imposition of a mightier hand." But to return ; as all who are in advance of the body of the community are necessarily dissenters,... | |
| 1825 - 570 pages
...hands: their diadems, crowns of glory which should never fade away! On the rich :ind the eloquent, on nobles and priests they looked down with contempt:...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... | |
| Baptists - 1825 - 582 pages
...han<\&: their diadems, crowns of glory which should never fade away ! On tbe rich and the eloquent, on nobles and priests they looked down with contempt...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... | |
| Orville Dewey - Election sermons - 1826 - 44 pages
...feel, and they ought to feel,—what has been eloquently said of the Puritans too—" that they are nobles by the right of an earlier creation, and priests by the imposition of a mightier hand." But to return ; as all who are in advance of the body of the community are necessarily dissenters,... | |
| John White (A.M.) - 1826 - 340 pages
...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,... | |
| Ebenezer Porter - Elocution - 1828 - 414 pages
...down with contempt: for they esteemed themselves rich in a more precious treasure, and elo35 quent in a more sublime language, nobles by the right of...— 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,... | |
| Ebenezer Porter - Elocution - 1828 - 418 pages
...have passed away. Events which shortsighted politicians ascribed to earthly causes, had been 35 quent in a more sublime language, nobles by the right of...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... | |
| Ebenezer Porter - Elocution - 1828 - 452 pages
...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...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 - Great Britain - 1830 - 592 pages
...these men of whom our Modern Critic "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'-college, they were recorded in the Book... | |
| Samuel Phillips Newman - English language - 1829 - 270 pages
...; — 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...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... | |
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