Events which short-sighted politicians ascribed to earthly causes had been ordained on his account. For his sake empires had risen, and flourished, and decayed. For his sake the Almighty had proclaimed his will by the pen of the evangelist and the harp... Essays, Critical and Miscellaneous - Seite 16von Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1860 - 744 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| 1832 - 852 Seiten
...was a being to whose fate a mysterious and terrible importance belonged ; on whose slightest action the spirits of light and darkness looked with anxious...by the pen of the Evangelist, and the harp of the Prophet. He had been wrested by no common deliverer from the grasp of no common foe. He had been ransomed... | |
| John White (A.M.) - 1826 - 340 Seiten
...being to whose fate a mfysteirious and terrible importance belonged-*-ori'-^*hbse slightest action the spirits of light and darkness looked with anxious...by the pen of the evangelist, and the harp of the prophet. He had been wresled, by no common deliverer, from the grasp of no common foe. He had been... | |
| Ant The - 1827 - 366 Seiten
...was a being to whose fate a mysterious and terrible importance belonged; on whose slightest action the spirits of light and darkness looked with anxious...will by the pen of the evangelist and the harp of the prophet. He had been wrested, by no common deliverer, from the grasp of no common foe. He had been... | |
| Ebenezer Porter - 1828 - 452 Seiten
...should have passed away. Events which shortsighted politicians ascribed to earthly causes, had been 45 ordained on his account. For his sake empires had...by the pen of the evangelist, and the harp of the prophet. He had been rescued by no common deliverer from the grasp of no com50 mon foe. He had been... | |
| Samuel Phillips Newman - 1829 - 270 Seiten
...was a being to whose fate a mysterious and terrible importance belonged — on whose slightest action the spirits of light and darkness looked with anxious...by the pen of the evangelist, and the harp of the prophet. He had been rescued by no common deliverer from the grasp of no common foe. He had been ransomed... | |
| James Hedderwick - 1833 - 232 Seiten
...was a being to whose fate a mysterious and terrible importance belonged — on whose slightest action the spirits of light and darkness looked with anxious...by the pen of the Evangelist, and the harp of the Prophet. He had been wrested by no common deliverer from the grasp of no common foe. He had been ransomed... | |
| 1835 - 932 Seiten
...being to whose fate a mysterious and terrible importance belonged — on whose slightest action to spirits of light and darkness looked with anxious...will by the pen of the evangelist and the harp of the prophet. He had been wrested by no common deliverer from the grasp of no common foe. He had been ransomed... | |
| British and foreign young men's society - 1837 - 556 Seiten
...was a being to whose fate a mysterious and terrible importance belonged — on whose slightest action the spirits of light and darkness looked with anxious...will by the pen of the evangelist and the harp of the prophet. He had been wrested by no common deliverer from the grasp of no common foe. He had been ransomed... | |
| Jesse Olney - 1838 - 346 Seiten
...Events which short-sighted politicians ascribed to earthly causes, had been ordained on his account _ 7. For his sake empires had risen, and flourished, and...by the pen of the evangelist, and the harp of the prophet. He had been rescued by no common deliverer from the grasp of no common foe. lie had been ransomed... | |
| Charles Hodge, Lyman Hotchkiss Atwater - 1840 - 644 Seiten
...was a being to whose fate a mysterious and terrible importance belonged — on whose slightest action the Spirits of light and darkness looked with anxious...by the pen of the evangelist, and the harp of the prophet. He had been rescued by no common deliverer from the grasp of no common foe. He had been ransomed... | |
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