 | Charles Rollin - 1815 - 544 pągines
...Above all, do not " suffer yourself, great prince, to be dazzled with the vain splendor of ”m" aginary glory, or with the pompous appearance of your troops....most lofty trees have the most reason to dread the tbunder. " As God alone is truly great, he is an enemy to * pride, and takes plcas" ure in bumbling... | |
 | Charles Rollin - 1820 - 386 pągines
...pompous appearance of your ' troops. Tue highest and most lofty trees have the most reason to dread tne thunder. As God alone is truly great. " he is an enemy...humbling " every thing that exalteth itself : and v&ry often the most " numerous armies fly before an handful of men, because lie " inspires the one... | |
 | Charles Rollin - 1830 - 480 pągines
...Above all, do not suffer yourself, great prince, to be dazzled with the vain splendour of imaginary glory, or with the pompous appearance of your troops....thing that exalteth itself; and very often the most numerous armies fly before a handful of men, because he inspires these with courage, and scatters terror... | |
 | Charles Rollin - 1841 - 384 pągines
...Above all, do not suffer yourself, great prince, to be dazzled with the vain splendour of imaginary glory, or with the pompous appearance of your troops....reason to dread the thunder. As God alone is truly greaI he is an enemy to pride,* and takes pleasure in humbling every thing that exalteth itself: and... | |
 | Charles Rollin, Robert Lynam - 1843 - 384 pągines
...ibove all, do not suffer yourself, great prince, to be dazzled with the vain splendour of imaginary glory, or with the pompous appearance of your troops....thing that exalteth itself: and very often the most numerous armies Jly before a handful of men, because he inspires the one with courage, and scatters... | |
 | Charles Rollin - 1853 - 476 pągines
...vain splendour of imaginary glory, or with the pompous appearance of your troops. The highest arid most lofty trees have the most reason to dread the...thing that exalteth itself; and very often the most numerous armies fly before a handful of men, because he inspires these with courage, and scatters terror... | |
 | John Cooper Grocott - 1863 - 562 pągines
...themselves to pieces. SHARSPERE. — King Richard III., Act I. Scene 8. (Queen Margaret to Gloster.) The highest and most lofty trees have the most reason to dread the thunder. ROLLIN. — Ancient History, Book VI. Chap. 2. I have no spur To prick the sides of my intent, but... | |
 | Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, Anna Lydia Ward - 1882 - 926 pągines
...PHILIPS — Cider. Bk. II. Line 437. Grove nods at grove. b. POPE — Moral Essays. Ep. IV. Line 117. The highest and most lofty trees have the most reason to dread the thunder. c. Коыли — Ancient History. Bk. VI. Ch. II. A barren, detested vale, you see, it is; The trees,... | |
 | Otis Henry Tiffany - 1883 - 954 pągines
...FLOWERS. A large, branching, aged oak is perhaps the most venerable of all inanimate objects. (Shenstone. The highest and most lofty trees have the most reason to dread the thunder. (Rollin. Trees, that like the poplar, lift upward all their boughs, give no shade and no shelter, whatever... | |
 | Maturin Murray Ballou - 1894 - 604 pągines
...as well as moral greatness, — Cortes and Napoleon, as well as Luther and Washington. — Whipple. The highest and most lofty trees have the most reason to dread the thunder. — Koilin. They that stand high have many blasts to shake them ; and if they fall, they dash themselves... | |
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The highest and most lofty trees have the most reason to dread the thunder. As God alone is truly great, he is an enemy to pride, and takes pleasure in humbling every thing that exalteth itself; and very often the most numerous armies fly before a handful... 
