 | 1849 - 364 sidor
...eloquent, upon nobles and upon priests with contempt, esteeming themselves rich in a more enduring treasure, and eloquent in a more sublime language...priests by the imposition of a mightier hand. " The leaven of true puritanism was at work, and with a power, the more ominous from its silence. To all... | |
 | 1837 - 588 sidor
...they esteemed themselves rich in a more precious treasure, and eloquent in a more sublime Itnguage ; nobles by the right of an earlier creation, and priests by the imposition of a mightier hand !" These were the men to whom the world owes the preservation of civil and religious liberty, their... | |
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - 1851 - 224 sidor
...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...terrible importance belonged — on whose slightest action the Spirits of light and darkness looked with anxious interest — who had been destined, before... | |
 | Cyrus R. Edmonds - 1851 - 272 sidor
...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...terrible importance belonged — on whose slightest action the spirits of light and darkness looked with anxious interest, who had been destined, before... | |
 | George Gilfillan - 1851 - 316 sidor
...eloquent, upon nobles and upon priests, with contempt, esteeming themselves rich in a more enduring treasure, and eloquent in a more sublime language...creation, 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... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1851 - 768 sidor
...on nobles and priests, they looked down with contempt : for they estcemed themselves rich in a more precious treasure, and eloquent in a more sublime language — nobles by the right of an earlicr creation, and priests by the imposition of a mightier hand. The very meanest of them was a... | |
 | Edward Lutwyche Parker - 1851 - 464 sidor
...themselves rich in a more precious treasure, and eloquent in a more sublime language, — nobles by right of an earlier creation, and priests by the imposition of a mightier hand. Those had little reason to laugh at them, who encountered them in the hall of debate or in the field... | |
 | 1853 - 334 sidor
...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...terrible importance -belonged ; on whose slightest action the spirits of light and darkness looked with anxious interest, who had been destined, before... | |
 | Allen Hayden Weld - 1853 - 120 sidor
...on nobles and priests, they looked down with contempt: for they esteemed themselves1 rich in a more precious treasure, and eloquent in a more sublime...and priests by the imposition of a mightier hand. C. The very meanest of them was a being to whose fate a mysterious and terrible importance belonged... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1854 - 796 sidor
...and priest», they looked down with contempt : for they esteemed themselves rich in a more p redo м treasure, and eloquent in a more sublime language; nobles by the right of an earlier creation, and priest« by the imposition of a mightier hand. "The Puritan, indeed, was made up of two différent... | |
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Their palaces were houses not made with hands; their diadems crowns of glory which should never fade away ! 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,... 
