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 3971826Affichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
| Half hours - 1847 - 580 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 moje of this world than the... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 pages
...obelisks, were but the irregularities of vain-glory, and wild enormities of ancient magnanimity. But therein, of all sciences (I speak still of human,...conceit) is our poet the monarch. For he doth not only s pur| raing that infallible perpetuity, unto which all others mu<t diminish their diameters, and be... | |
| 1851 - 824 pages
...Browne, "were hut the irregularities of vaiu-g'ory, aud the wild enormities of ancient magnanimity. Hut the most magnanimous resolution rests in the Christian...infallible perpetuity, unto which all others must diminlH their diameters, aud he poorly seen in angles of contingency.*" The statue of Calhoun, by Powers,... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1849 - 708 pages
...obelisks, were but the irregularities of vain-glory, and wild enormities of ancient magnanimity. But first, the best preservative to keep the mind in health...account, is a medicine sometime« too piercing and corro Blust diminish their diameters, and be poorly seen in *-ngles of contingency. Pious spirits, who passed... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1850 - 710 pages
...ancient magnanimity. But the most magnanimous resolution rests in the Christian religion, which tramplcth Romeo. Jul. \yhat man art thou, that thui",bcscrecn*d...By a name I know not how to tell thee who I nm : ingles of contingency. Pious spirits, who passed their days in raptures of futurity, made little more... | |
| Royal Archaeological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland - 1851 - 364 pages
...fallacy in duration." And farther on, referring to tombs where names have been preserved, he says; " To subsist in lasting monuments, to live in their...productions, to exist in their names, and predicament of chimseras, was large satisfaction unto old expectations, and made one part of their elysiuins. But... | |
| George Clayton (jr.) - 1851 - 270 pages
...tramploth upon pride, and sits upon the neck of ambition , humbly pursuing that infallible perpetuity into which all others must diminish their diameters and be poorly seen in the angles of contingency. Evenus, an elegiac poet of Pharos, w^as the first it is said, that enunciated... | |
| Sir Thomas Browne - 1852 - 572 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. J Pious spirits who passed their days in raptures of futurity, made little more of this world, than... | |
| sir Thomas Browne - 1852 - 592 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. J Pious spirits who passed their days in raptures of futurity, made little more of this world, than... | |
| Sir Thomas Browne - 1852 - 598 pages
...obelisks, were but the irregularities of vain-glory, and wild enormities of ancient magnanimity. But the most magnanimous resolution rests in the Christian,...diminish their diameters, and be poorly seen in angles of contingency.J * Jarnandcs de rebus Geticis. t Isa. xiv. 16, &c. J Angulus contingentice, the least... | |
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