 ... -by the right of an earlier creation, and priests by the imposition of a mightier hand. The very meanest of them was a being to whose fate a mysterious and terrible importance belonged, on whose slightest action the spirits of light and darkness looked...  Self-formation: Twelve Chapters for Young Thinkers - Page 192by Edwin Paxton Hood - 1858 - 255 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Illustrated reader - 1874 - 408 pages
...palaces were houses not made with hands; their diadems crowns of glory which should never fade away! 5. On the rich and the eloquent, on nobles and priests,...continue when heaven and earth should have passed away. 6. Events which short-sighted politicians ascribed to earthly causes had been ordained on his account.... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - 1874 - 220 pages
...on whose slightest actions the spirits of light and darkness looked with anxious interest, — who had been destined, before heaven and earth were created,...to earthly causes had been ordained on his account. Tor his sake empires had risen, and flourished, and decayed. Tor his sake the Almighty had proclaimed... | |
 | Readers - 1875 - 324 pages
...— on whose slightest actions the spirits of light and darkness looked with anxious interest — who had been destined, before heaven and earth were created,...continue when heaven and earth should have passed away. 5. Events which short-sighted politicians ascribed to earthly c-auses had been ordained on his account.... | |
 | Francis Henry Underwood - American literature - 1875 - 660 pages
...belonged—on whose slightest actions the spirits of light and darkness looked with anxious interest — who had been destined, before heaven and earth were created,...enjoy a felicity which should continue when heaven and eartli should have passed away. Events which short-sighted politicians ascribed to earthly causes had... | |
 | George Rhett Cathcart - American literature - 1876 - 452 pages
...belonged, on whose slightest action the spirits of light and darkness looked with anxious interest, who had been destined, before heaven and earth were created,...continue when heaven and earth should have passed away. Eveits which short-sighted politicians ascribed to earthly causes, had been ordained on his account.... | |
 | George Rhett Cathcart - American literature - 1877 - 454 pages
...belonged, on whose slightest action the spirits of light and darkness looked with anxious interest, who had been destined, before heaven and earth were created,...short-sighted politicians ascribed to earthly causes, had becn ordained on his account. For his sake empires had risen, and flourished, and decayed. For his... | |
 | James De Mille - English language - 1878 - 618 pages
...belonged — on whose slightest actions the spirits of light and darkness looked with anxiety — who had been destined before heaven and earth were created...on his account. For his sake empires had risen and nourished and decayed. For his sake the Almighty had proclaimed his will by the pen of the evangelist... | |
 | George Rhett Cathcart - American literature - 1878 - 446 pages
...belonged, on whose slightest action the spirits of light and darkness looked with anxious interest, who had been destined, before heaven and earth were created,...on his account. For his sake empires had risen, and nourished, and decayed. For his sake the Almighty had proclaimed his will by the pen of the evangelist... | |
 | Manchester Literary Club - English literature - 1878 - 310 pages
...belonged, on whose slightest action the spirits of light and darkness looked with anxious interest, who had been destined, before heaven and earth were created,...continue when heaven and earth should have passed away. As to form, the earlier Puritan writers, notably Owen and Baxter, wrote with extreme negligence of... | |
 | Phineas Garrett - Readers - 1878 - 874 pages
...heaven a (1 earth should have passed away. Events which shortsi::hted ]>oliticians ascribed toearthly causes, had been ordained on his account. For his sake empires had risen, and ttouri: lied, and decayed. For his sake the Almighty had pro<•!. limed his will by the pen of the... | |
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