 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...  Essays, Critical and Miscellaneous - Page 16by Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1859 - 744 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Francis Henry Underwood - 1871 - 664 pages
...more sublime language, nobles by the right of an earlier creation, and priests by the imposition ct 3 mightier hand. The very meanest of them was a being...created, to enjoy a felicity which should continue when heaven: and earth should have passed away. Events which short-sighted politicians ascribed to earthly... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1871 - 704 pages
...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...and terrible importance belonged, on whose slightest action, the spirits of light and darkness looked with anxious interest, who had been destined, before... | |
 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - Readers (Elementary) - 1873 - 614 pages
...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...created, to enjoy a felicity which should continue when heaven and earth should have passed away. 5. Events which short-sighted politicians ascribed to earthly... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - 1874 - 220 pages
...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...created, to enjoy a felicity which should continue when heaven and earth should have passed away. Events which shortsighted politicians ascribed to earthly... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay (baron [essays]) - 1874 - 328 pages
...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...and terrible importance belonged, on whose slightest action the spirits of light and darkness looked with anxious interest, who had been destined, before... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay (baron [essays]) - 1874 - 264 pages
...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...terrible importance belonged — on whose slightest action the spirits of light and darkness looked with anxious interest, who had been destined, before... | |
 | Readers - 1875 - 324 pages
...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...created, to enjoy a felicity which should continue when heaven and earth should have passed away. 5. Events which short-sighted politicians ascribed to earthly... | |
 | Francis Henry Underwood - American literature - 1875 - 660 pages
...The very meanest of them was a being to whose fate a mysterious and terrible importance belonged—on whose slightest actions the spirits of light and darkness...created, to enjoy a felicity which should continue when heaven and eartli should have passed away. Events which short-sighted politicians ascribed to earthly... | |
 | George Rhett Cathcart - American literature - 1874 - 454 pages
...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...and terrible importance belonged, on whose slightest action the spirits of light and darkness looked with anxious interest, who had been destined, before... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1876 - 508 pages
...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...and terrible importance belonged, on whose slightest action the spirits of light and darkness looked with anxious interest, who had been destined, before... | |
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