 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
 | William Holmes McGuffey - 1853 - 492 pages
...too minute. To know him, to servo him, to enjoy him, was, with them, the great end of existence. 2. They rejected, with contempt, the + ceremonious homage...occasional glimpses of the deity through an obscuring vail, they aspired to gaze full on the intolerable brightness, and to commune with him, face to face.... | |
 | 1855 - 424 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... | |
 | Thomas Bangs Thorpe - 1855 - 412 pages
...Being, for whose power nothing was too vast, for whoso inspection nothing was too minute. To know him, to serve him, to enjoy him, was with them the great...substituted for the pure worship of the soul. Instead of satchiug occasional glimpses of the Deity through an obscuring veil, they aspired to gaze full on the... | |
 | Form, S. C. - 1856 - 74 pages
...character from the daily contemplation of superior beings and eternal interests. To know God, to serve and enjoy Him, was with them the great end of existence....His intolerable brightness, and to commune with Him face to face." Oldfield. — Macaulay never wrote truer or more beautiful words. No wonder if such... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1856 - 770 pages
...Being, for whose power nothing was too va; l, 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... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1858 - 780 pages
...Being, for whose power nothing was too vas t, for whose inspection nothing was loo 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... | |
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - 1858 - 272 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... | |
 | Mrs. S. C. Hall - 1859 - 396 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... | |
 | Henry George John Clements - 1860 - 176 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...His intolerable brightness, and to commune with Him face to face. Hence originated their contempt for terrestrial distinctions. The difference between... | |
 | Robert Ross - 1860 - 516 pages
...Great Being, for whose power nothing was too vast, for whose inspection nothing was too minute. To know him, to enjoy him, was with them the great end of...his intolerable brightness, and to commune with him face to face. Hence originated their contempt for terrestrial distinctions. The difference between... | |
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