 | William Draper Swan - 1845 - 482 pages
...catching occasional glimpses of the Deity through an obscuring veil, they aspired to gaze full on the intolerable brightness, and to commune with him face...distinctions. The difference between the greatest and meanest of mankind seemed to vanish, when compared with the boundless interval which separated the... | |
 | Thomas Babington baron Macaulay - 1846 - 222 pages
...catching occasional glimpses of the Deity through an obscuring veil, they aspired to gaze full on the intolerable brightness, and to commune with him face...distinctions. The difference between the greatest* and meanest of mankind seemed to vanish, when compared with the boundless interval which separated the... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1846 - 782 pages
...catching •occasional glimpses of the Deity through an obscnring veil, they aspired to gaze full on the open; the same anil meanest of mankind seemed to vanish, when compared with the boundless interval which separated... | |
 | Robert William Dale - 1846 - 160 pages
...honours, and now standing among the aristocracy of heaven. " Tie difference between the greatest and meanest of mankind seemed to vanish, when compared...which separated the whole race from Him on whom their eyes were constantly fixed. They recognised no title to superiority but His favour ; and, confident... | |
 | James Sheridan Knowles - 1847 - 344 pages
...catching occasional glimpses of the Deity through an obscuring veil, they aspired to gaze full on the intolerable brightness, and to commune with him face...distinctions. The difference between the greatest and meanest of mankind seemed to vanish, when compared with the boundless interval which separated the... | |
 | James William Massie - 1847 - 228 pages
...catching occasional glimpses of the Deity through an obscuring veil, they aspired to gaze full on the intolerable brightness and to commune with him face...distinctions. The difference between the greatest and meanest of mankind seemed to vanish when compared with the boundless interval which separated the whole... | |
 | 1848 - 792 pages
...face. Hence originated their contempt of earthly distinctions. The difference between the greatest and meanest of mankind seemed to vanish when compared...fixed. They recognised no title to superiority but His favor; and confident of that, they despised all the accomplishments, and all the dignities of the world.... | |
 | 1848 - 786 pages
...face. Hence originated their contempt of earthly distinctions. The difference between the greatest and meanest of mankind seemed to vanish when compared...fixed. They recognised no title to superiority but His favor; and confident of that, they despised all the accomplishments, and all the dignities of the world.... | |
 | 1848 - 780 pages
...face. Hence originated their contempt of earthly distinctions. The difference between the greatest and meanest of mankind seemed to vanish when compared...fixed. They recognised no title to superiority but His favor; and confident of that, they despised all the accomplishments, and all the dignities of jJie... | |
 | David Bates Tower - 1853 - 444 pages
...catching occasional glimpses of the Deity through an obscuring veil, they aspired to gaze full on the intolerable brightness, and to commune with him face...distinctions. The difference between the greatest and meanest of mankind seemed to vanish, when compared with the boundless interval which separated the... | |
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... serve him, to enjoy him, was with them the great end of existence. They rejected with contempt the ceremonious homage which other sects substituted for the pure worship of the soul. 
