 Pyramids, arches, obelisks were but the irregularities of vainglory and wild enormities of ancient magnanimity. But the most magnanimous resolution rests in the Christian religion, which trampleth upon pride and sits on the neck of ambition, humbly pursuing...  Christian Examiner and Theological Review - Page 3971826Full view - About this book
 | Robert C. Kenner - 1892 - 112 pages
...obelisks were but the irregularities of vainglory, and wild enormities of ancient magnanimity. But the most magnanimous resolution rests in the Christian...diameters and be poorly seen in angles of contingency. Pious spirits, who passed their days in raptures of futurity, made little more of this world than the... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Gibbon - Literature - 1893 - 504 pages
...wild enormities of ancient magnanimity. But the most magnanimous resolution rests in the ( hristi:ns religion, which trampleth upon pride, and sits on...diameters, and be poorly seen in angles of contingency. Pious spirits, who passed their days in raptures of futurity, made little more of this world than the... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - Funeral rites and ceremonies - 1893 - 154 pages
...the most magnanimous resolution rests in the Christian Religion, which trampleth upon pride, and sets on the neck of ambition, humbly pursuing that infallible...others must diminish their diameters, and be poorly •i Angulus seen in Angles of contingency d . //"'TiS*' Pious spirits who passed their dayes Angles.... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - Gardening - 1896 - 252 pages
...enormities of ancient magnanimity. But the most magnanimous resolution rests in the Christian religion, 83 which trampleth upon pride, and sits on the neck of...diameters, and be poorly seen in angles of contingency s . Pious spirits who passed their days in raptures CHAP. V. of futurity, made little more of this... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - Literature - 1898 - 544 pages
...had a handsome anticipation of heaven ; the world is surely over, and the earth in ashes unto them. To subsist in lasting monuments, to live in their productions, to exist in their names, and predicaments of chimeras, was large satisfaction unto old expectations, and made one part of their... | |
 | James Mercer Garnett - 1899 - 728 pages
...Greek, Latin, Hebrew, Egyptian, Arabic: defaced by Licinius the emperor." — WILKIN. 'a Isaiah xiv. 16. magnanimous resolution rests in the Christian religion,...diameters, and be poorly seen in angles of contingency. ** Pious spirits who passed their days in raptures of futurity, made little more of this world, than... | |
 | English literature - 1901 - 436 pages
...obelisks, were but the irregularities of vain-glory, and wild enormities of ancient magnanimity. But the most magnanimous resolution rests in the Christian...diameters, and be poorly seen in angles of contingency. Pious spirits who passed their days in raptures of futurity, made little more of this world, than the... | |
 | Literature - 1901 - 440 pages
...obelisks, were but the irregularities of vain-glory, and wild enormities of ancient magnanimity. But the most magnanimous resolution rests in the Christian...diameters, and be poorly seen in angles of contingency. Pious spirits who passed their days in raptures of futurity, made little more of this world, than the... | |
 | Oliver Herbrand Gordon Leigh - English literature - 1901 - 432 pages
...obelisks, were but the irregularities of vain-glory, and wild enormities of ancient magnanimity. But the most magnanimous resolution rests in the Christian...diameters, and be poorly seen in angles of contingency. Pious spirits who passed their days in raptures of futurity, made little more of this world, than the... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English essays - 1902 - 444 pages
...obelisks, were but the irregularities of vain-glory, and wild enormities of ancient magnanimity. But the most magnanimous resolution rests in the Christian...diameters, and be poorly seen in angles of contingency. ' Pious spirits who passed their days in raptures of futurity, made little more of this world, than... | |
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