 | 1832 - 736 pages
...conception: but the crowd turned away in disgust from words which presented no image to their minds. It was before Deity, embodied in a human form, walking...the Portico, and the fasces of the Lictor, and the awords of thirty Legions were humbled in the dust!" After these quotations illustrative of this interesting... | |
 | 1835 - 932 pages
...conception : but the crowd turned away in disgust from words which presented no image to their minds. It was before Deity embodied in a human form, walking...among men, partaking of their infirmities, leaning un their bosoms, weeping over their graves, slumbering in the manger, bleeding on the cross, that the... | |
 | 1839 - 656 pages
...power, no fitness to supply the deep wants of his spiritual nature. " It was," as has well been said, "before Deity embodied in a human form, walking among...portico, and the fasces of the lictor, and the swords of thirty legions, were humbled in the dust." Our author, we conceive, would'have been far truer to the... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1840 - 464 pages
...conception ; but the crowd turned away in disgust from words which presented no image to their minds. It was before Deity embodied in a human form, walking...Portico, and the fasces of the Lictor, and the swords of thirty Legions, were humbled in the dust ! Soon after Christianity had achieved its triumph, the principle... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1844 - 614 pages
...conception ; but the crowd turned away in disgust from words which presented no image to their minds. It was before Deity, embodied in a human form, walking among men, partaking of their infirmiiies, leaning on their bosoms, weeping over their graves, slumbering in the manger, bleeding... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1846 - 782 pages
...conception; but the crowd turned away in disgust from words which presented no image to their minds. r their kettledrums were heard, the peasant threw his bagof rice on his shoulder, thirty legions, were humbled in the dust ! Soon after Christianity had achieved its triumph, the principle... | |
 | George Vandenhoff - 1846 - 398 pages
...on their bSsoms^ weeping over their grfMjs-- slumbering in the manger^ bleeding on the cross^thatjhe prejudices of the synagogue- and the doubts of the...and the pride of the portico^- and the fasces of the Bclor and the Bword8 of ed for the most unmeaning badge, or the most insignificant name, than for the... | |
 | George Vandenhoff - 1847 - 396 pages
...conception ; but the crowd turned away in disgust from words which presented no image to their minds. It was before Deity, embodied in a human form, walking...portico, and the fasces of the lictor, and the swords of thirty legions, were humbled in the dust !* Soon after Christianity had achieved its triumph, the principles... | |
 | John Milton - 1850 - 594 pages
...conception ; but the crowd turned away in disgust from words which presented no image to their minds. It was before Deity embodied in a human form, walking...the Academy, and the pride of the Portico, and the forces of the lictor, and the swords of thirty legions, were humbled in the dust. Soon after Christianity... | |
 | John Milton - 1851 - 554 pages
...before Deity embodied in a huIvalking among men, partaking of their infirmities, leaning on as, wreeping over their graves, slumbering in the manger, bleeding...the Academy, and the pride of the Portico, and the forces of the lictor, and the swords of thirty legions, were humbled in the dust. Soon after Christianity... | |
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A philosopher might admire so noble a conception ; but the crowd turned away in disgust from words which presented no image to their minds. It was before Deity embodied in a human form, walking among men, partaking of their infirmities, leaning on their... 
