 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 Macaulay - English literature - 1882 - 878 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.... | |
 | Church congress - 1882 - 606 pages
...Macaulay — " It was before Deity taking a human form, walking among men, partaking of their infirmities, leaning on their bosoms, weeping over their graves,...synagogue, and the doubts of the academy, and the fasces of the lictor, and the swords of thirty legions were humbled in the dust." And sympathy, I firmly... | |
 | Otis Henry Tiffany - Anthologies - 1883 - 954 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.... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay (baron [essays]) - 1883 - 874 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,...and the pride of the Portico, and the fasces of the I.ictor, and the swords of thirty legions, were humbled in the dust. Soon after Christianity had achieved... | |
 | Robert Aitkin Bertram - Homiletical illustrations - 1885 - 908 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, thai the prejudices of the synagogue, and the doubts of the academy, and the pride of the portico,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English essays - 1885 - 916 pages
...inconsistency with which he hat the Synagogue, and the doubts of the |ften been reproached. Dr. Johnson Academy, and the pride of the portico, and the fasces of the Lictor, and the •words of thirty legions, were humbled in the dust. Soon after Christianity had achieved its triumph,... | |
 | Robert Cochrane - Authors, English - 1887 - 572 pages
...minds. It was before Deity embodied in a human form, walking among men, partaking of their infirmities, d "those innocenta would do her no harm ; " and how...— and yet I never saw the infants. Here John exp toe swords of thirty legions, were humbled in the dust ! Soon after Christianity had achieved its triumph,... | |
 | George Dana Boardman - Ten commandments - 1889 - 396 pages
...i" 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." — Lord Macaulay's "Essay on Milton." Ob, that with yonder sacred throng, We at his feet may fall... | |
 | Presbyterianism - 1889 - 656 pages
...minds. It was before Deity embodied in a hnman 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." The other extract will be found in the essay on Southey's Colloquies tm Society. In connection with... | |
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