 ... principles? Let us see. There is not, I •will answer for it, a native Englishman among them. Poor ministers the chief of them, of small Scottish congregations, stationed on the wrong side of the border, who sigh in obsequious fondness after a church...  The Edinburgh Christian Instructor - Página 541828Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Anglicanus (pseud.) - 1827 - 84 páginas
...sigh in obsequious fondness after a church that has not cherished them with reciprocal attachment. Their highest conceptions of worldly glory and felicity do not surmount the dome of St George's — it would not do for them to slight what they conceive to be the road to preferment, or to set up... | |
 | Charles Thomson (minister of the Scotch church, North Shields.) - 1828 - 22 páginas
...sigh in obsequious fondness after a church that has not cherished them with reciprocal attachment. Their highest conceptions of worldly glory and felicity do not surmount the dome of St George's. It would not do for them to slight what they consider to be the road to preferment, or to set up for... | |
 | Marcus Dods - 1828 - 34 páginas
...would not weep, if Atticus were he !" I return to my picture. The next feature in it is, that my *' highest conceptions of worldly glory and felicity do not surmount the dome of St George's." This sentence possibly has ä meaning, but there is such a want of homogeneity in the things compared,... | |
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