Mammon led them on, Mammon, the least erected Spirit that fell From Heaven; for even in Heaven his looks and thoughts Were always downward bent, admiring more The riches of Heaven's pavement, trodden gold, Than aught divine or holy else enjoyed In vision... Southern Review - Seite 2831831Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| 1827 - 590 Seiten
...to enter therein, we should probably, like Mammon, admire more — The riches of Heaven's pavement, trodden gold, Than aught divine or holy else enjoyed In vision beatific. The conclusion would be irresistibly forced upon us, that we had kept pace with older countries in luxury,... | |
| Henry Hunter - 1828 - 356 Seiten
...heaven, his looks and thoughts Were always downward bent, admiring more The riches or heaven's pavement, trodden gold, Than aught divine or holy else enjoyed In vision beatific." The beautiful view beneath, therefore, was to Balaam what the conjugal bliss of our first parents in paradise... | |
| Henry Hunter - 1834 - 618 Seiten
...heaven, his looks and thoughts Were always downward bent, admiring more The riches of heaven's pavement, the words which I read at the opening of the Lecture. " And they took their beautiful view beneath, therefore, was to Balaam what the conjugal bliss of our first parents in paradise... | |
| 1848 - 780 Seiten
...heaven his looks and thoughts Were always downward bent; admiring more The riches of heaven's pavement, trodden gold, Than aught divine, or holy else enjoyed In vision beatific. We might fancy that this was merely a violent return of an intermittent fever, for the world has always... | |
| Alexander Campbell - 1835 - 696 Seiten
...litav'n hie looks and thought! Were always downward bent, admiring more The riches of heavVs pavement, trodden gold, Than aught divine or holy else enjoyed In vision beatific : by him flrst Men also, and by his suggestion taught, Ransack'd the centre, and with impious hand*... | |
| John Harris - 1836 - 352 Seiten
...heaven his looks and thoughts Were always downward bent ; admiring more The riches of heaven's pavement, trodden gold, Than aught divine or holy else, enjoyed In vision beatific." The moral of which is, that covetousness is one of the eldest-born of sin, and a prime leader in the satanic... | |
| 1843 - 890 Seiten
...heaven hie looks and thought« Were always downward bent, admiring more The riches of heaven's pavement, trodden gold, Than aught divine or holy else enjoyed In vision beatific." Forty-five Missionaries, Were sent out between the first of June and the first of November, to th Western... | |
| 1846 - 818 Seiten
...[whose] looks and thoughts There always downward bent, admiring more The riches of heaven's pavement, trodden gold, Than aught divine or holy else enjoyed In vision beatific, ami thy doom shall be with him and his followers. There seems, at first view, to be a discrepancy between... | |
| Hugh Swinton Legaré - 1845 - 606 Seiten
...even in heaven, His looks were always downward bent, admiring more The richeB of heaven's pavement, trodden gold, Than aught divine or holy else enjoyed...truth of this proposition — but we do object to the form in which it is enunciated, and the emphasis that is laid upon it. Whether we arrive at the conclusion,... | |
| 1846 - 492 Seiten
...his looks and thoughts Were always downward bent, admiring more The riches of heaven's pavement, — trodden gold, — Than aught divine or holy else enjoyed In vision beatific.' It may be feared that a defect of this kind, if truly stated and sufficiently general to mark the character... | |
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