 | Allen Hayden Weld - 1848 - 120 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...originated their contempt for terrestrial distinctions. 3. The difference between the greatest and meanest of mankind seemed to vanish, when compared with... | |
 | Jean Henri Merle d'Aubigné - 1848 - 346 pages
...was too minute. To know him, to serve him, to enjoy him, was with them the great end of existence. Hence " originated their contempt for terrestrial...difference between the greatest and the meanest of man" kind seemed to vanish, when compared with the boundless " interval which separated the whole race... | |
 | 1849 - 818 pages
...catching occasional glimpses of the Deity through an obscuring veil, 'hoy 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... | |
 | 1856 - 666 pages
...of catching occasional glimpses of the Deity through an obscuring veil, they aspired to gaze 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... | |
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - 1851 - 224 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... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1851 - 780 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... | |
 | Edward Lutwyche Parker - 1851 - 464 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...originated their contempt for terrestrial distinctions. They recognized no title to superiority but the divine favor ; and, confident of that favor, they despised... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1851 - 768 pages
...contempt for terrestrial distinetions. The differenee betwcen the greatest and meanest of mankind scemed to vanish, when compared with the boundless interval which separated the whole race from him on whom thcir own eyes were constantly fifed. They recognized no title to superiority but his favor; and, confident... | |
 | David Hunter Riddle - 1851 - 28 pages
...was too minute. To know him, serve him, enjoy him, was, with them, the great end of existence, and hence originated their contempt for terrestrial distinctions. The difference between the greatest and meanest of mankind, vanished when compared with the boundless interval which separ rated the whole... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1852 - 764 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 boundkss interval which separated the whole... | |
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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. 
