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... Lives of the Chief Fathers of New England - Página 621870Visualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| 1846 - 318 páginas
...foes, has suffered extreme historic injustice. His only child became the wife of the younger Winthrop ; and their descendants who yet live among us are happy...and priests by the imposition of a mightier hand." v This company sailed about the tenth of August, 1635. They had some rough weather, in which the decayed... | |
| Thomas Babington baron Macaulay - 1846 - 222 páginas
...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 imposition of a mightier hand. The very meanest of them was a being to whose fate a mysterious and terrible importance belonged —... | |
| George Gilfillan - 1846 - 508 páginas
...rich in a more enduring treasure, and eloquent in a more sublime language, — nobles by the right of an earlier creation, and priests by the imposition of a mightier hand," — was magnificent. And with a like power has he since depicted Dryden and Machiavelli, Byrpn and... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1846 - 782 páginas
...themselves rich in a more precious treasure, and eloquent in a more sublime language, nobles by the right of their hopes frustrated. But he had chosen the good part; and he calle The very meanest of them was a being to whose fate a mysterious and terrible importance belonged —... | |
| Robert William Dale - 1846 - 160 páginas
...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 imposition of a mightier hand."* Puritans ! your name shall be hallowed while liberty is dear to MAN, and freedom of thought is prized... | |
| John Fanning Watson - 1846 - 470 páginas
...themselves rich in more precious treasure, and eloquent in a sublimer language ; nobles by the right of an earlier creation, and priests by the imposition of a mightier hand. They therefore rejected with disdain the ceremonious homage which others had substituted for the pure... | |
| James Sheridan Knowles - 1847 - 344 páginas
...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 imposition of a mightier hand. slightest actions the spirits of light and darkness looked with anxious interest — who had been destined,... | |
| 1847 - 498 páginas
...rich in a more precious treasure, and eloquent in a more sublitne language ; nobles by the right of an earlier creation, and priests by the imposition of a mightier hand." JOHN ENDECOTT, whose name is so intimately associated with the first settlement of this country, and... | |
| James William Massie - 1847 - 228 páginas
...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 imposition of a mightier hand. The very meanest of them was a being to whose fate a mysterious and terrible importance belonged, on... | |
| David Bates Tower - 1853 - 444 páginas
...rich in a more precious treasure, and eloquent in a mor« sublime language ; nobies 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 ;... | |
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