 | Wilkie Collins - 1850 - 336 páginas
...harangued the wavering Pagans in the Temple, and first plotted the overthrow of the Christian Church. among the crowds around him, still enslaved, after...ambition, which had crushed the promise of his early youth ! It was an awful testimony to the eternal and mysterious nature of thought, to behold that wasted... | |
 | William Wilkie Collins - 1861 - 444 páginas
...days when he had harangued the wavering Pagans in the Temple, and first plotted the overthrow of the Christian Church, It was a terrible and warning proof...ambition, which had crushed the promise of his early youth ! It was an awful testimony to the eternal and mysterious nature of thought, to behold that wasted... | |
 | Wilkie Collins - 1893 - 450 páginas
...the wavering Pagans in the Temple, and first plotted the overthrow of the Christian Church. It-was a terrible and warning proof of the omnipotent influence...ambition which had crushed the promise of his early youth ! It was an awful testimony to the eternal and mysterious nature of thought, to behold that wasted... | |
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... length he forgot that he was an outcast, and remembered triumphantly that he was still a priest. He felt animated by the same hopes, elevated by the same aspirations, as in those early days when he had harangued the wavering pagans in the temple,... 