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... Macaulay's Essays on Milton and Addison - Page 112by Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1899 - 272 pagesFull view - About this book
| John Stoughton - Windsor (Berkshire, England) History - 1844 - 266 pages
...for they esteemed themselves rich in the possession of a more precious treasure, and eloquent in a more sublime language, — nobles by the right of...creation, and priests by the imposition of a mightier hand People who saw nothing of the godly but their uncouth visages, and heard, nothing from them but their... | |
| John Goldsbury, William Russell - American literature - 1844 - 444 pages
...language, nobles by the right of an earlier creation, and priests by the imposition of a migh30 tier hand. The very meanest of them was a being to whose...fate a mysterious and terrible importance belonged, -•an whose slightest action the spirits of light and darkness looked with artxious interest, who... | |
| John Goldsbury, William Russell - Elocution - 1844 - 444 pages
...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 imposition of a migb30 tier hand. The very meanest of them was a being- to whose fate a mysterious and terrible importance... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1844 - 614 pages
...шеу» teemed themselves rich in a more precious treasure, and eloquent in a more sublime latguage, nobles by the right of an earlier creation, and priests by the imposition of a mightierhani The very meanest of them was a being to who; fate a mysterious and terrible importance... | |
| William Draper Swan - American literature - 1845 - 494 pages
...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...terrible importance belonged ; on whose slightest action the spirits of light and darkness looked with anxious interest ; who had been destined, before heaven... | |
| Nathan Marcus Adler - 1845 - 696 pages
...down with contempt ; for they esteemed themselves rich in a more precious treasure, and eloquent iu a more sublime language, — nobles by the right of...and priests by the imposition of a mightier hand." In addition to this description, let me say Puritanism distinguished the true from the false in forms... | |
| George Gilfillan - Authors, English - 1845 - 484 pages
...upon priests, with contempt, esteeming themselves rich in a more enduring treasure, and eloquent in a more sublime language, — nobles by the right of...and priests by the imposition of a mightier hand," — was magnificent. And with a like power has he since depicted Dryden and Machiavelli, Byron and... | |
| Jesse Olney - Elocution - 1845 - 348 pages
...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...and, priests by the imposition of a mightier hand. 6. The very meanest of them was a being to whose fate a mysterious and terrible importance belonged... | |
| Thomas Babington baron Macaulay - 1846 - 222 pages
...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...importance belonged — on whose slightest action the Spirits of >light and darkness looked with anxious interest — who had been destined, before heaven... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1846 - 782 pages
...down with contempt: for they esteemed themselves rich in a more precious treasure, and eloquent in a ufficient to support peerages, should find all their...the good part; and he called up all the force of his actions the spirits of light and darkness looked with anxious interest — who had been destined, before... | |
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