 | Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 816 pages
...Venice. Pillan or columns, I could distinguish into simple and compounded. Wotton'i Architecture. If this fail, The pillared firmament is rottenness, And earth's base built on stubble. Milton. The palace built by Picus vast and proud, Supported by a hundred pillars stood. Druden. The... | |
 | James Wills - 1835 - 256 pages
...improbable that the Christian religion should be other than it professes — divine truth — If this fail, The pillared firmament is rottenness, And earth's base built on stubble. THE END. DUBLIN: KD WKBB, PRINTER, GREAT BRUNSWICK.STREET. ... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - 1840 - 68 pages
...the elevation of all classes of its citizens. To question this seems an approach to crime. "If this fail, The pillared firmament is rottenness, And earth's base built on stubble." I am aware, that in reply to all that has been said in favour of the possibility of uniting self-improvement... | |
 | Abiel Abbot Livermore - 1842 - 384 pages
...that the faith of the Christian world in the divine authority of Jesus Christ is grounded. " If this fail, The pillared firmament is rottenness, And earth's base built on stubble." two days. And many more believed, because of his own word; 41 and said unto the woman, Now we believe,... | |
 | 1871 - 870 pages
...truce with absurdity and wrong ; and evil extinguishes itself by an apotheosis into good. "If this fail, The pillared firmament is rottenness, And earth's base built on stubble." 2. The same is evident from the nature of love, as the real principle of law. As we have seen, the... | |
 | 1874 - 990 pages
...once. Those soul certainties which men can plant their feet upon, and feel with Milton that — If this fail The pillared firmament is rottenness, And earth's base built on stubble — were nearly all dangerous heresies at one period of their history. The strength of the Christian... | |
 | 1917 - 482 pages
...and settled to itself, It shall be in eternal restless change. Self-fed and self-consumed ; if this fail, The pillared firmament is rottenness, And earth's base built on stubble." Evil shall perish, but good shall remain. " Mortals, that would follow me, Love Virtue ; she alone... | |
 | John Brown - 1848 - 530 pages
...Ghost, according to his own will." the weight of his interests for eternity, his all on it. " If this fail, the pillared firmament is rottenness, and earth's base built on stubble." To state that message, and that evidence, is the appropriate function of the high and holy office to... | |
 | Cyrus R. Edmonds - 1851 - 418 pages
...settled to itself, 59S It shall be in eternal restless change Self-fed and self-consumed : if this fail, The pillared firmament is rottenness, And earth's base built on stubble. But come, let's on. 575. Such two.] Two persona 'fe.] The notion here expressed of some sort. by Milton... | |
 | 1851 - 608 pages
...and settled to itself, It shall be in eternal restless change Self-fed and self-consumed : If this fail The pillared firmament is rottenness, And earth's base built on stubble." And thus, we see, underneath the flowers and the beauty, there ever lay in Milton all manly strength.... | |
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It shall be in eternal restless change Self-fed and self-consumed. If this fail, The pillared firmament is rottenness, And earth's base built on stubble. 
