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| Unitarianism - 1828 - 476 pages
...or orders of greatness, and that the highest did not belong to Bonaparte. There are different orders of greatness. Among these the first rank is unquestionably...peril; hears in its own conscience a voice louder than threatenings and thunders; withstands all the powers of the universe, which would sever it from the... | |
| Theology - 1827 - 560 pages
...trait of Napoleon's domestic character, but on authority which we cannot question. VOL. Iv. NO. v. 53 these the first rank is unquestionably due to moral...; hears in its own conscience a voice louder than threatenings and thunders ; withstands all the powers of the universe, which would sever it from the... | |
| United States - 1827 - 634 pages
...did not belong to Bonaparte. There are different orders of greatness. Among these the first rank ia unquestionably due to moral greatness, or magnanimity...; hears in its own conscience a voice louder than threatenings and thunders ; withstands all the powers of the universe, which would sever it from the... | |
| William Ellery Channing - 1828 - 60 pages
...or orders of greatness, and that the highest did not belong to Bonaparte. There are different orders of greatness. Among these, the first rank is unquestionably...magnanimity ; to that sublime energy by which the soul, subdued by the love of virtue, binds itself indissolubly, for life and for death, to truth and duty;... | |
| Great Britain - 1828 - 562 pages
...or orders of greatness, and that the highest did not belong to Bonaparte. There are different orders of greatness. Among these, the first rank is unquestionably...magnanimity ; to that sublime energy by which the soul, subdued by the love of virtue, binds itself indissolubly, for life and for death, to truth and duty... | |
| Samuel Phillips Newman - English language - 1829 - 270 pages
...or orders of greatness, and that the highest did not belong to Bonaparte. There are different orders of greatness. Among these the first rank is unquestionably...death, to truth and duty; espouses as its own the interest of human nature; scorns all meanness and defies all peril ; hears in its own conscience a... | |
| Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 438 pages
...orders of greatness, and that the highest did not belong to Buonaparte. There are different orders of greatness. Among these, the first rank is unquestionably...magnanimity; to that sublime energy by which the soul, subdued by the love of virtue, binds itself indissolubly, for life and for death, to truth and duty... | |
| William Ellery Channing - Theology - 1830 - 630 pages
...orders of greatness, and that the highest did not belong to Bonaparte. There are 'different orders of greatness. Among these the first rank is unquestionably...peril; hears in its own conscience a voice louder than threatenings and thunders; withstands all the powers of the universe, which would sever it from the... | |
| William Ellery Channing - Theology - 1830 - 630 pages
...or orders of greatness, and that the highest did not belong to Bonaparte. There are different orders of greatness. Among these the first rank is unquestionably...interests of human nature ; scorns all meanness and denes all peril ; hears in its own conscience a voice louder than threatenings and thunders ; withstands... | |
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