A philosopher might admire so noble a conception ; but the crowd turned away in disgust from words which presented no image to their minds. It was before Deity embodied in a human form, walking among men, partaking of their infirmities, leaning on their... Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature - Page 432edited by - 1844Full view - About this book
| Thomas Babington Macaulay (baron [essays]) - 1874 - 328 pages
...minds. It was before Deity embodied in a human form, walking among men, partaking of their infirmities, leaning on their bosoms, weeping over their graves,...of thirty legions, were humbled in the dust. Soon after Christianity had achieved its triumph, the principle which had assisted it began to corrupt it.... | |
| William Rathbone Greg - Future life - 1874 - 338 pages
...It was before the Deity embodied in a human form, walking among men, partaking of their infirmities, leaning on their bosoms, weeping over their graves,...the Portico, and the fasces of the Lictor, and the sworda of thirty legions were humbled in the dust." creatures and yourself." They need (what, indeed,... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Criminal law - 1875 - 716 pages
...minds. It was before Deity embodied in a human form, walking among men, partaking; of their infirmities, leaning on their bosoms, weeping over their graves, slumbering in the manger, bleedins on the cross, that the prejudices of the Synagogue, and the doubts of the Academy, and the... | |
| Literature - 1876 - 1072 pages
...a human form, walking1 among men, partakirig of their infirmities, leaning on their bosoms, weepJng over their graves, slumbering in the manger, bleeding...swords of thirty legions, were humbled in the dust."* This system then is dry, abstract, unattractive, without a way to the general heart. And surely there... | |
| Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1876 - 768 pages
...men, partaking of their infirmities, leaning on their bosoms, weeping over their graves, siumbering in the manger, bleeding on the cross, that the prejudices...swords of thirty legions, were humbled in the dust. LORD MACAULAY: Milton, Aug. 1825. The Saviour of mankind himself, in whose blameless life malice could... | |
| American periodicals - 1876 - 848 pages
...minds. It was before Deity embodied in a human form, walking among men, partaking of their infirmities, leaning on their bosoms, weeping over their graves,...slumbering in the manger, bleeding on the cross, that the prejudice of the synagogue, and the doubts of the academy, and the pride of the portico, and the fasces... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1877 - 112 pages
...minds. It was before Deity embodied in a human form, walking among men, partaking of their infirmities, leaning on their bosoms, weeping over their graves,...of thirty legions, were humbled in the dust. Soon after Christianity had achieved its triumph, the principle which had assisted it began to corrupt it.... | |
| John Adair - 1878 - 160 pages
...minds. It was before Deity embodied in a human form, walking among men, partaking of their infirmities, leaning on their bosoms, weeping over their graves,...swords of thirty legions, were humbled in the dust." But Mr. Mill and other writers, eminent in different branches of science, seem to think it very important... | |
| David Charles Bell - Elocution - 1879 - 556 pages
...grammatical sense of the first part is modified by the second, and therefore requires the rising inflexion. man"ger, bleeding on the cross", — that the prejudices...swords of thirty le'gions, were humbled in the dust. I conjure you, — Though you untie the winds", and let them fight Against the church"es ; though the... | |
| Henry Strickland Constable - Medicine - 1879 - 314 pages
...walking among men, partaking of their infirmities, leaning on their bosoms, weeping over their graves, bleeding on the Cross, that the prejudices of the...swords of thirty legions were humbled in the dust." Many a would-be pagan of the present period says that Christianity is nothing because maxims as moral... | |
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