...sums of money, ho was assuredly an un,', .-, .,tr ,n, .n, v lender, and, I fear a Hal. of an usurer, " admiring more The riches of heaven's pavement, trodden gold, Than aught divine or holy." A ,n., ii" , the debts which were considered "desperat," is — "Mr. Nicholas Assheton Into of Downham,...

...various sums of money, ho was assuredly an inveterate money lender, and, I fear a little of an usurer, " admiring more The riches of heaven's pavement, trodden gold, Than aught divine or holy." Amongst the debts which were considered " desperat," is — " Mr. Nicholas Assheton late of Downham,...

...our faith in the Highest, and have come to believe in a worship the lowest, even Mammon.' — • " Mammon, the least erected spirit that fell From Heaven ; for even in Heaven hU looks and thought! Were always downward bent, admiring more The riches of Heaven's pavement, trodden...

...character, Mammon reigna supreme : " Mammon, the least erected spirit that fell From Heaven — for e'en in Heaven his looks and thoughts Were always downward...pavement, trodden gold, Than aught divine or holy." Indeed, such is the degraded character of the community in the eye of the law, that it presumes that...

...appreciated. The Poet represents him as— • The least erected spirit that fell From heaven : for o'en in heaven his looks and thoughts Were always downward...more The riches of heaven's pavement, trodden gold, lhan aught divine or holy, else enjoyed In beatific vibion." In heaven he had been much employed in...

...and pickaxe arm'd, Forerun the royal camp, to trench a field, Or cast a rampart: Mammon led them on, Mammon, the least erected spirit that fell From heaven: for even in heaven his looks and thoughts 680 Were always downward bent; admiring more The riches of heaven's pavement, trodden gold, Than ought...

...with all its splendid attainments in science and art, is plunging deeper into the sordid worship of "the least erected spirit that fell From heaven, for...aught divine or holy else enjoyed In vision beatific." It may be feared that a defect of this kind, if truly stated and sufficiently general to mark the character...

...Recording the history of Mammon — the Scripture personification of cupidity — he describes him as H the least erected spirit that fell From heaven : for...pavement, trodden gold, Than aught divine or holy else, enjoy'd In vision beatific." The moral of which is, that covetousness is one of the eldest-born of...

...a rampart. MAMMON * led them on : MAMMON, the least erected spirit that fell From heav'n ; for e'en in heaven his looks and thoughts Were always downward...admiring more The riches of heaven's pavement, trodden gold,5 Than aught, divine or holy, else enjoy'd In vision beatific : by him first Men also, and by...

...Milton's fine use of this symbol in his description of Mammon (Par. Lost, b. 1) will readily occur : Mammon, the least erected Spirit that fell From heaven ; for even in heaven his looks and thought* Were always downward bent. Thus Augustine (Enarr. 2* in Pt. Ixviii. 24) : Qui bene audit,...