 Their palaces were houses not 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 with contempt, for they esteemed themselves rich in a more precious treasure,...  Lord Macaulay's Essays ; And, Lays of Ancient Rome - Pàgina 25per Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1892 - 924 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1860 - 1084 pàgines
...never fade away. On the rich and the eloquent, on nobles and priests they looked clown with contempt i for they esteemed themselves rich in a more precious...The very meanest of them was a being to whose fate a mys.erious and terrible importance belonged, on whose slightest action the spirits of light and darkness... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1860 - 778 pàgines
...crowns of glory which iihould never fade away 1 On the rich and the eloquent, on nobles and pries**, they looked down with contempt : for they esteemed...; nobles by the right of an earlier creation, and pn,-»is by the Imposition of a mightier hand. "The Puritan, Indeed, was made up of two different men... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1861 - 752 pàgines
...Their palaces were houses not made Gcrusalemme Liberata, xv. 57. with hands: their diadems crowns cf y Macaulay( belonged — :on whose slightest actions the spirits of light and darkness looked with anxious interest... | |
 | William Jordan Unwin - 1862 - 300 pàgines
...hands ; their diadems, crowns of glory which should never fade away. On the rich and the eloqueut, on nobles and priests, they looked down with contempt...to whose fate a mysterious and terrible importance belonged, on whose slightest action the spirits of light and darkness looked with anxious interest... | |
 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - 1863 - 614 pàgines
...fade away ! 4. On the rich and the eloquent, on nobles and priests, they looked down wifh contempf • for they esteemed themselves rich in a more precious...priests by the imposition of a mightier hand. The vfiry meanest of them was a being to whose fate a mysterious and terrible importance belonged — on... | |
 | 1864 - 974 pàgines
...houses not made with hands, their diadems crowns of glory which should never fade away. On the rich and eloquent, on nobles and priests, they looked down...to whose fate a mysterious and terrible importance belonged, on whose slightest action the spirits of light and darkuess looked on with anxious interest... | |
 | william reed - 1864 - 836 pàgines
...; their diadems, crowns of glory, which should not fade away. On the rich and the eloquent, on the nobles and priests, they looked down with contempt...and priests by the imposition of a mightier hand." They regarded themselves as having had expended upon them the infinite treasures of wisdom and goodness.... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin Morris - 1864 - 842 pàgines
...looked down with (comparative) contempt; for they esteemed themselves rich in more precious treasures, and eloquent in a more sublime language; nobles by...to whose fate a mysterious and terrible importance belonged, — on whose slightest action the spirits of light and darkness looked with anxious interest,... | |
 | Matthew Baxter - 1865 - 534 pàgines
...works of philosophers and poets, they were deeply read in the oracles of God. If their names were not in the registers of heralds, they felt assured that...to whose fate a mysterious and terrible importance belonged; on whose slightest action the spirits of light and of darkness looked with anxious interest;... | |
 | Frederick Samuel Newell - 1865 - 80 pàgines
...were deeply read in the oracles of God. If their names were not found in the registers of heralds, they were recorded in the Book of Life. If their steps...to whose fate a mysterious and terrible importance belonged, on whose slightest action the spirits of light and darkness looked with anxious interest,... | |
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