 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
 | William Morley Punshon - 1873 - 400 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 ?" Scarcely less eloquent, though much less known, is the 58 description of the influence of the literature... | |
 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - 1873 - 614 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. The very meanest of them was a being to whose fate a mysterious and terrible importance belonged —... | |
 | Illustrated reader - 1874 - 408 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... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - 1874 - 220 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, —... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay (baron [essays]) - 1874 - 264 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 —... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1890 - 1100 páginas
...themselves rich in a more precious treasure, and eloquent in a more sublime language, nobles by the right of ~lzmz ? }~ The very meanest of them was a being to whose fate a mysterious and terrible importance belonged, on... | |
 | 1890 - 714 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." It is not to be expected that the youth of this period can give their minds solely to such profound... | |
 | 1890 - 612 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 !" SOME OF THE THINGS THAT THE YALE "ASSOCIATIONS" ARE ACCOMPLISHING. THE vigorous life which has of... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1891 - 232 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 ;... | |
 | Nicholas Murray Butler, Frank Pierrepont Graves, William McAndrew - 1918 - 482 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. These are only samples of the kind of literature which was placed before young pupils more than thirty... | |
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