 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
 | William Hazlitt - English essays - 1902 - 442 pages
...obelisks, were but the irregularities of vain-glory, and wild enormities of ancient magnanimity. But the most magnanimous resolution rests in the Christian...infallible perpetuity, unto which all others must diminish the1r diameters, and be poorly seen in angles of contingency. ' Pious spirits who passed their days... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - Christian ethics - 1902 - 354 pages
...obelisks, were but the irregularities of vain-glory, and wild enormities of ancient magnanimity. But the most magnanimous resolution rests in the Christian...ambition, humbly pursuing that infallible perpetuity, into which all others must diminish their diameters, and be poorly seen in angles of contingency.1... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1902 - 442 pages
...obelisks, were but the irregularities of vain-glory, and wild enormities of ancient magnanimity. But the most magnanimous resolution rests in the Christian religion, which trampleth upon pride, and tits on the neck of ambition, humbly pursuing that infallible perpetuity, unto which all others must... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1907 - 632 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 perpetuity, unto which all others 144 CHAP. V 1 Angulus contingcnnv, the least efAitgla. " fi Paris •where bodies soon consume. 3 A... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - Digital images - 1905 - 426 pages
...obelisks were but the irregularities of 25 vain-glory, and wild enormities of ancient magnanimity. But the most magnanimous resolution rests in the Christian...others must diminish their diameters and be poorly 30 seen in angles of contingency. Pious spirits who passed their days in raptures of futurity made... | |
 | Alphonso Gerald Newcomer - English literature - 1905 - 492 pages
...obelisks, were but the irregularities of vainglory, and wild enormities of ancient magnanimity. . . To subsist in lasting monuments, to live in their...productions, to exist in their names and predicament of chimaeras, was large satisfaction unto old expectations, and made one part of their Elysiums. But all... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - Digital images - 1905 - 422 pages
...religion, whlcn irampleth upon pride"~ari(T'5'lts' on ttfti lioclc of ambition, humbly pursuing tfiat infallible perpetuity unto which all others must diminish their diameters and be poorly 30 seen in angles of contingency. Pious spirits who passed their days in raptures of futurity made... | |
 | JOHN MASEFIELD - 1907 - 550 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... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - Bookbindings - 1907 - 82 pages
...Obelisks, were but the irregularities of vainglory, and wilde enormities of ancient magnanimity. But the most magnanimous resolution rests in the Christian...diminish their diameters and be poorly seen in Angles of contingency.-fPious spirits who passe their dayes in raptures of futurity, th< least °f An & les made... | |
 | Elizabeth Lee - English prose literature - 1907 - 112 pages
...strict account being still on this side death, and having a late part yet to act on this stage of earth. To subsist in lasting monuments, to live in their...productions, to exist in their names, and predicament of Chimaeras, was large satisfaction unto old expectations, and made one part of their Elysiums. But all... | |
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