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
| English literature - 1831 - 370 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. t Pious spirits, who passed their days in raptures of futurity, made little more of this world than... | |
| Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - American periodicals - 1834 - 528 pages
...beyond all, according to some loyal chroniclers, the possessor of that best religion ' which triumpheth upon pride, and sits on the neck of ambition, humbly...diameters, and be poorly seen in angles of contingency.' I have painted her in my thought as a tall, majestic woman, with an eye which warmed, while it awed... | |
| Sir Thomas Browne - 1835 - 532 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.f Pious spirits who passed their days in raptures of futurity, made little more of this... | |
| Sir Thomas Browne - Christian ethics - 1835 - 526 pages
...obelisks, were but the irregularities of 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 I seen in angles of contingency.f Pious spirits who passed their days in raptures of futurity, made... | |
| George Collison (solicitor.) - 1840 - 462 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. Angulus coritingenlid', — the least of angles. Pious spirits who passed their days in raptures of... | |
| Sir Thomas Browne - Christian ethics - 1841 - 346 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. (m) Pious spirits who passed their days in raptures of futurity, made little more of this world than... | |
| Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - Great Britain - 1841 - 306 pages
...arches, obelisks, those 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, were large satisfaction unto old expectations, and made one part of their Elysiums. But... | |
| Methodist Church - 1861 - 716 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 sits upon the neck of ambition, humbly pursuing that infallible perpetuity unto which all others must diminish... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1845 - 670 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... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1845 - 490 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 sils on the neck of ambition, humbly pursuing that infallible perpetuity, unto which all others must... | |
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