 Not content with acknowledging in general terms an overruling Providence, they habitually ascribed every event to the will of the great Being for whose power nothing was too vast, for whose inspection nothing was too minute. To know him, to serve him,...  Lord Macaulay's Essays and Lays of Ancient Rome - Page 23by Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1885 - 898 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1832 - 852 pages
...Being for whose power nothing was too vast, for whose inspection nothing was too minute. To know Him, to serve Him, to enjoy Him, was with them the great...through an obscuring veil, they aspired to gaze full on the intolerable brightness, and to commune with him face to face. Hence originated their contempt for... | |
 | 1825 - 570 pages
...him, was with them the great end of existence. They rejected with contempt the ceremonious bornage which other sects substituted for the pure worship...through an obscuring veil, they aspired to gaze full on the intolerable brightness, and to commune with him face to face. Hence originated their contempt for... | |
 | 1826 - 596 pages
...Being, for whose power nothing was too vast, for whose inspection nothing was too minute. To know him, to serve him, to enjoy him, was with them the great...through an obscuring veil, they aspired to gaze full on the intolerable brightness, and to commune with him face to face. Hence originated their contempt for... | |
 | Ant The - 1827 - 366 pages
...Being, for whose power nothing was too vast, for whose inspection nothing was too minute. To know him, to serve him, to enjoy him, was with them the great...through an obscuring veil, they aspired to gaze full on the intolerable brightness, and to commune with him face to face. Hence originated their contempt for... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - 1828 - 452 pages
...to serve him, to enjoy him, was with them the great end of existence. They rejected with con10 tempt the ceremonious homage which other sects substituted...through an obscuring veil, they aspired to gaze full on the intolerable brightness, and to commune with him face to face. 15 Hence originated their contempt... | |
 | Samuel Phillips Newman - 1829 - 270 pages
...Great Being, for whose power nothing was too vast, for whose inspection nothing was too minute. To know him, was with them the great end of existence. They...through an obscuring veil, they aspired to gaze full on the intolerable brightness, and to commune with him face to face. Hence originated their contempt for... | |
 | Edward Robinson - 1848 - 590 pages
...Being, for whose power nothing is too vast, for whose inspection nothing is too minute. To know Him, to serve Him, to enjoy Him, was with them the great...through an obscuring veil, they aspired to gaze full on the intolerable brightness, and commune with Him face to face. Hence originated their contempt of earthly... | |
 | James Hedderwick - 1833 - 232 pages
...Being, for whose power nothing was too vast, for whose inspection nothing was too minute. To know him, to serve him, to enjoy him, was with them the great...through an obscuring veil, they aspired to gaze full on the intolerable brightness, and to commune with him face to face. Hence originated their contempt for... | |
 | 1835 - 932 pages
...Being, for whose power nothing was too vast, for whose inspection nothing was too minute. To know him, to serve him, to enjoy him, was with them the great...through an obscuring veil, they aspired to gaze full on the intolerable brightness, and to commune with him face to face. Hence originated their contempt for... | |
 | 1836 - 332 pages
...Being, for whose power nothing was too vast, for whose inspection nothing was too minute. To know him, to serve him, to enjoy him, was with them the great...through an obscuring veil, they aspired to gaze full on the intolerable brightness, and to commune with him face to face. Hence originated their contempt for... | |
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