 | United States - 1855 - 560 pages
...true. Elsewhere, throughout the continent of Europe, the words of Milton apply universally : "They betake them to state affairs, with souls so unprincipled...virtue and true generous breeding, that flattery and courtship and tyrannous aphorisms appear to them the highest points of wisdom ; instilling their barren... | |
 | Industries - 1855 - 778 pages
...proves good and profitable to them." — King James first's last speech. " Men allured to the trade of law, grounding their purposes not on the prudent and heavenly contemplation of justice and equity, but on the promising and pleasing thoughts of litigious terms, fat contentions, and flowing fees."... | |
 | Henry Barnard - Education - 1856 - 768 pages
...either to an ambitious and mercenary, or ignorantly zealous divinity : some allured to the trade of law," grounding their purposes not on the prudent and heavenly contemplation of justice and equity,18 which was never taught them, but on the promising and pleasing thoughts of litigous terms,... | |
 | Universities and colleges - 1857 - 818 pages
...either to an ambitious and mercenary, or ignorantly zealous divinity ; some allured to the trade of law, grounding their purposes not on the prudent and...promising and pleasing thoughts of litigious terms, fat, contentious, and flowing free. Others, lastly, of a more delicious and airy spirit, retire themselves... | |
 | Frederick Denison Maurice - 1859 - 516 pages
...ambitious and mercenary, or ignorantly zealous Di" vinity; Some allur'd to the trade of Law, ground" ing their purposes not on the prudent and heavenly "contemplation...contentions, " and flowing fees; others betake them to State af" fairs, with souls so unprincipl'd in vertue, and true " generous breeding, that flattery, and Court... | |
 | Frederick Denison Maurice - Rationalism - 1859 - 524 pages
...ambitious and mercenary, or ignorantly zealous Di" vinity ; Some allur'd to the trade of Law, ground" ing their purposes not on the prudent and heavenly "contemplation...contentions, " and flowing fees ; others betake them to State af" fairs, with souls so unprincipl'd in vertue, and true " generous breeding, that flattery, and Court... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1859 - 616 pages
...either to an ambitious and mercenary, or tgnoranlly zealous divinity; some allured to the trad* of law, grounding their purposes not on the prudent and heavenly contemplation of justke and equity, which was never taught them, but on tbe promising and pleasing thoughts of litigious... | |
 | John Milton - 1866 - 520 pages
...either to an ambitious and mercenary, or ignorantly zealous divinity: some allured to the trade of law, grounding their purposes not on the prudent and...virtue and true generous breeding, that flattery and court-shifts and tyrannous aphorisms appear to them the highest points of wisdom; instilling their... | |
 | Henry Barnard - Education - 1871 - 930 pages
...justice and equity,1* which was never taught them, but on the promising and pleasing thoughts of litigous terms, fat contentions, and flowing fees : others...virtue and true generous breeding, that flattery, and court-shifts, and tyrannous aphorisms, appear to them the highest points of wisdom ;13 instilling their... | |
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... grounding their purposes not on the prudent and heavenly contemplation of justice and equity, which was never taught them, but on the promising and pleasing thoughts of litigious terms, fat contentions, and flowing fees... 
