 | 1825 - 570 pages
...imposition of a mightier hand. The very meanest of them was a being to whose fate a ni3s620 521 tenons and terrible importance belonged — on whose slightest...which should continue when heaven and earth should liave passed away. Events which short-sighted politicians ascribed to «•ai'thly causes, had been... | |
 | Baptists - 1825 - 582 pages
...imposition of a mightier hand. 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 and darkness luukcd with anxious interest — who had been destined, before heaven and earth were created, to enjoy... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - Elocution - 1828 - 452 pages
...the imposition of a mightier hand. The very meanest of them was a being to whose fate a mysterious and terrible importance belonged — 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,... | |
 | Edward Robinson - 1848 - 590 pages
...the imposition of a mightier hand. The very meanest of them was a being to whose fate a mysterious and terrible importance belonged ; on whose slightest...with anxious interest ; who had been destined before the heavens and earth were created, to enjoy a felicity which should continue when heaven and earth... | |
 | Literature - 1836 - 332 pages
...the imposition of a mightier hand. The very meanest of them was a being, to whose fate a mysterious and terrible importance belonged; on whose slightest...on his account. For his sake empires had risen, and nourished, and decayed. For his sake the Almighty had proclaimed his will by the pen of the evangelist,... | |
 | Jesse Olney - Readers - 1838 - 346 pages
...the imposition of a mightier hand. 6. The very meanest of them was a being to whose fate a mysterious and terrible importance belonged — on whose slightest...action the spirits of light and darkness looked with anxiosn interest, who had been destined, before heaven and earth were created, to enjoy a felicity... | |
 | J. Fletcher - 1842 - 478 pages
...the imposition of a mightier hand. The very meanest of them was a being to whose fate a mysterious and terrible importance belonged — on whose slightest...of light and darkness looked with anxious interest, and who had been destined, before heaven and earth were created, to enjoy a felicity which should continue... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1843 - 390 pages
...The very meanest of them was a being to whose fate a mysterious and terrible importance belonged—on whose slightest action the Spirits of light and darkness looked with anxious interest—who had been destined, before heaven and earth were created, to enjoy a felicity which should-... | |
 | Congregational churches - 1844 - 602 pages
...the imposition of a mightier hand. The very meanest of them was a being to whose fate a mysterious and terrible importance belonged, on whose slightest...ordained on his account. For his sake, empires had risen, flourished, and decayed. For his sake the Almighty had proclaimed his will by the pen of the evangelist,... | |
 | John Goldsbury, William Russell - Elocution - 1844 - 440 pages
...the imposition of a migh30 tier hand. The very meanest of them was a being to whose fate a mysterious and terrible importance belonged, - .on whose slightest...heaven and earth were created, to enjoy a felicity 35 which should continue when heaven and earth should have passed away. Events which short-sighted... | |
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... 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... 
