 | Thomas Buckley Smith - 1858 - 310 Seiten
...was too minute. To know him, to serve him, to enjoy him, was with them the great end of existence. Instead of catching occasional glimpses of the Deity,...through an obscuring veil, they aspired to gaze full on his intolerable brightness, and to commune with him habitually face to face. Hence originated their... | |
 | Mrs. S. C. Hall - 1859 - 396 Seiten
...with contempt the ceremonious homage which other sects substituted for the pure worship of the soul. Instead of catching occasional glimpses of the Deity...brightness, and to commune with him face to face. Hence originated their contempt for terrestrial distinctions. The difference between the greatest and... | |
 | David Masson - 1860 - 282 Seiten
...with contempt the ceremonious homage which other sects substituted for the pure worship of the soul. Instead of catching occasional glimpses of the Deity...brightness, and to commune with him face to face. Hence originated their contempt for terrestrial distinctions. The difference between the greatest and... | |
 | Allen Hayden Weld - 1860 - 136 Seiten
...with contempt the ceremonious homage which other sects substituted for the pure worship of the soul. Instead of catching occasional glimpses of the Deity...brightness, and to commune with him face to face. Hence originated their contempt for terrestrial distinctions. 3. The difference between the greatest... | |
 | Henry George John Clements - 1860 - 176 Seiten
...with contempt the ceremonious homage which other sects substituted for the pure worship of the soul. Instead of catching occasional glimpses of the Deity...through an obscuring veil, they aspired to gaze full on His intolerable brightness, and to commune with Him face to face. Hence originated their contempt for... | |
 | Robert Ross - 1860 - 516 Seiten
...with contempt the ceremonious homage which other sects substituted for the pure worship of the soul. Instead of catching occasional glimpses of the Deity...through an obscuring veil, they aspired to gaze full on his intolerable brightness, and to commune with him face to face. Hence originated their contempt for... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1897 - 1102 Seiten
...with con'empt the ceremonious homage which other sects subitituted for the pure worship of the soul. Instead of catching occasional glimpses of the Deity...through an obscuring veil, they aspired to gaze full on his intolerable brightness, and to commune with him face to face. Hence originated their contempt for... | |
 | William Jordan Unwin - 1862 - 300 Seiten
...with contempt the ceremonious homage which other sects substituted for the pure worship of the soul. Instead of catching occasional glimpses of the Deity...through an obscuring veil, they aspired to gaze full on his intolerable brightness, and to commune with him face to face. Hence originated their contempt for... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin Morris - 1864 - 842 Seiten
...rejected with contempt the ceremonious homage which other sects substituted for the worship of the soul. Instead of catching occasional glimpses of the Deity...brightness, and to commune with him face to face. Hence originated their contempt for terrestrial distinctions. The difference between the greatest and... | |
 | 1864 - 974 Seiten
...with contempt the ceremonious homage which other secte substituted for the pure worship of the soul. Instead of catching occasional glimpses of the Deity...through an obscuring veil, they aspired to gaze full on His intolerable brightness, and to commune with Him face to face. Hence originated their contempt for... | |
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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 end of existence. They rejected with contempt the ceremonious homage which other sects substituted... 
