 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
 | George Burnett - 1807 - 556 pages
...and deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery in the infamy of his nature: * * * To subsist in lasting monuments, to live in their productions, to exist in their names, and prsdicavOL. tit. I, L... ment of chimeras, was large satisfaction unto old expectations, and made one... | |
 | George Burnett - Authors, English - 1807 - 548 pages
...and deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery in the infamy of his nature. * * * To subsist in lasting monuments; to live in their productions, to exist in their names, and praedicaVOL. III. V meiit of chimeras, was large satisfaction unto old expectations, and made one part... | |
 | 1819 - 596 pages
...grows old itself bids us hope no long duration, — diuturnity is a dream and folly of expectation. • To subsist in lasting monuments, to live in their productions, to exist in their names, — was large satisfaction unto old expectations, and made one part of their elysiums. But all this... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1819 - 592 pages
...grows old itself bids us hope no long duration, — diuturnity is a dream and folly of expectation. • To subsist in lasting monuments, to live in their productions, to exist in their names, — was large satisfaction unto old expectations, and made one part of their elysiums. But all this... | |
 | William Hazlitt - Dramatists, English - 1821 - 372 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 - English drama - 1821 - 374 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... | |
 | George Walker - English prose literature - 1825 - 668 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... | |
 | Literary gems - 1826 - 718 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... | |
 | 1822 - 608 pages
...handsome anticipation of heaven. The glory of the world is surely over, and the earth in ashes unto them. To subsist in lasting monuments, to live in their...and predicament of chimeras was large satisfaction to old expectations, and made one part of their elygium. But all this is nothing in the metaphysics... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1830 - 844 pages
...upon pride, and sits on the m-ck of ambition, humbly pursuing that infallible perpetuity, unto winch can Book Exchange Pions spirits, who passed their dnys in raptures of futurity, made little more of this world than the... | |
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