 ... of kingdoms. By the love of glory, weak nations swell into magnitude and strength. Whatever there is of terrible, whatever there is of beautiful in human events, all that shakes the soul to and fro, and is remembered while thought and flesh cling...  The London Lancet - Page 931852Full view - About this book
 | Sydney Smith - Ethics - 1849 - 446 pages
...mausoleums, and pyramids; love turns men from their savage rudeness; ambition shakes the very foundations of kingdoms. By the love of glory, weak nations swell...flesh cling together,— all these, have their origin from the passions. As it is only in storms, and when their coming waters are driven up into the air,... | |
 | Truth-seeker and present age - 1850 - 478 pages
...ambitiou shakes the very foundations of kingdoms. By the love of glory, weak nations swell into magnitnde and strength. Whatever there is of terrible, whatever...and fro, and is remembered while thought and flesh eling together — all these have their origin from the passions. As it is only in storms, aud when... | |
 | Sydney Smith - Ethics - 1850 - 420 pages
...mausoleums, and pyramids ; love turns men from their savage rudeness ; ambition shakes the very foundations of kingdoms. By the love of glory, weak nations swell...flesh cling together, — all these have their origin from the passions. As it is only in storms, and when their coming waters are driven up into the air,... | |
 | American literature - 1850 - 896 pages
...mausoleums, and pyramids; love turns men from their savage rudeness ; ambition shakes the very foundations of kingdoms. By the love of glory, weak nations swell...events, all that shakes the soul to and fro, and is remcm bered while thought and flesh cling together, all these have their origin from the passions.... | |
 | 1850 - 694 pages
...love turns men from their savage rudeness; ambition shakes the very foundations of kingdoms. By ihc love of glory, weak nations swell into magnitude and strength. Whatever there is of torrible, whatever there is of beautiful, in human events, all ibat shakes the soul to and fro, and... | |
 | Brewin Grant - Apologetics - 1853 - 294 pages
...mausoleums and pyramids; love turns men from their savage rudeness ; ambition shakes the very foundations of kingdoms ; by the love of glory weak nations swell...whatever there is of beautiful, in human events, all shake the soul to and fro, and are remembered whilst thought and flesh stick together. All these have... | |
 | 1854 - 664 pages
...and death. Avarice guides men aeross the deserts of the ocean; Pride covers the earth with tropldes, mausoleums, and pyramids; Love turns men from their...fro, and is remembered while thought and flesh cling togcther,—all these have their origin in the passions. As it is only in storms, and when their coming... | |
 | Sydney Smith - Authors, English - 1856 - 502 pages
...mausoleums, and pyramids ; love turns men from their savage rudeness ; ambition shakes the very foundations of kingdoms. By the love of glory, weak nations swell...flesh cling together — all these have their origin from the passions. As it is only in storms, and when their coming waters are driven up into the air,... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1856 - 490 pages
...rudeness ; shakos the very foundations of kingdoms. By live, weak nations swell into magnitude and _ii is of terrible, whatever there is of beautiful in...flesh cling together — all these have their origin from the passions. As it is only in storms, and when their coming waters are driven up into the air,... | |
 | Sydney Smith - English essays - 1865 - 478 pages
...mausoleums, and pyramids; love turns men from their savage rudeness ; ambition shakes the very foundations of kingdoms. By the love of glory, weak nations swell into magnitude and strength. Whatever ther* is of terrible, whatever there is of beautiful in human events, aD that shakes the soul to and... | |
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