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Essays, Critical and Miscellaneous - Page 16
by Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1859 - 744 pages
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The Christian Observer, Volume 31

Religion - 1832 - 852 pages
...treasure, and eloquent in a more sublime language, nobles by the right of an earlier creation, and priests by the imposition of a mightier Hand. The...terrible importance belonged ; on whose slightest action the spirits of light and darkness looked with anxious interest, who had been destined, before...
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The baptist Magazine

1825 - 570 pages
...being to whose fate a ni3s620 521 tenons and terrible importance belonged — on whose slightest action the spirits of light and darkness looked with anxious...created, to enjoy a felicity which should continue when heaven and earth should liave passed away. Events which short-sighted politicians ascribed to «•ai'thly...
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The elementary elocutionist: a selection of pieces in prose and verse, by J ...

John White (A.M.) - 1826 - 340 pages
...being to whose fate a mfysteirious and terrible importance belonged-*-ori'-^*hbse slightest action the spirits of light and darkness looked with anxious...created, to enjoy a felicity which should continue when heaven and earth should have passed away. Events, which shortsighted politicians ascribed to earthly...
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The Christian Advocate, Volume 4

Presbyterianism - 1826 - 596 pages
...treasure, and eloquent in a more sublime language, nobles by the right of an earlier creation, and priests by the imposition of a mightier hand. The...terrible importance belonged — on whose slightest action the Spirits of light and darkness looked with anxious interest, who had been destined, before...
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The Ant, publ. during 1826 and 1827, Volume 2

Ant The - 1827 - 366 pages
...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...created, to enjoy a felicity which should continue when heaven and earth should have passed away. Events which short-sighted politicians ascribed to earthly...
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Analysis of the Principles of Rhetorical Delivery as Applied in Reading and ...

Ebenezer Porter - Elocution - 1828 - 414 pages
...treasure, and elo35 quent in a more sublime language, nobles by the right of an earlier creation, and priests by the imposition of a mightier hand. The...terrible importance belonged — on whose slightest action the spirits of light 40 and darkness looked with anxious interest, who had been destined, before...
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A Practical System of Rhetoric: Or, The Principles and Rules of Style ...

Samuel Phillips Newman - English language - 1829 - 270 pages
...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...created, to enjoy a felicity which should continue when heaven and earth should have passed away. Events which shortsighted politicians ascribed to earthly...
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The Biblical repositor (and quarterly observer) [afterw.] The American ...

Edward Robinson - 1848 - 590 pages
...treasure, and eloquent in a more sublime language ; nobles, by the right of an earlier creation, and priests by the imposition of a mightier hand. The...terrible importance belonged ; on whose slightest action the spirits of light and darkness looked with anxious interest ; who had been destined before...
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The English Orator: a Selection of Pieces for Reading & Recitation

James Hedderwick - Oratory - 1833 - 232 pages
...treasure, and eloquent in a more sublime language, nobles by the right of an earlier creation, and priests by the imposition of a mightier hand. The...terrible importance belonged — on whose slightest action the spirits of light and darkness looked with anxious interest — who had been destined, before...
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Selections Fron the Edinburgh Review, Comprising the Best ..., Volumes 1-2

1835 - 932 pages
...treasure, and eloquent in a more sublime language, nobles by the right of an earlier creation, and priests by the imposition of a mightier hand. The...terrible importance belonged — on whose slightest action to spirits of light and darkness looked with anxious interest, who had been destined, before...
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