His cattle, go they must To rack and ruin, all because vain-glory was his lust.

Glory is the highest aspiration of egotism, and Louis was an incarnation of egotism, like Napoleon after him.

"Glory, honor, and immortality," will be the reward of those who had recognized and cheered their Lord through his outraged poor.

The greatest glory of Boston is "The Stump," the highly unsuitable name given to its magnificent church tower, 300 feet high, and a landmark all over the surrounding fen-lands and even out at sea.

In one item, Nisida, We two differ: thy incentive Thy chief motive, is but interest: Mine is vanity, a determined Will no other woman shall Triumph o'er me in this effort, Since I wish that Rome should see That the glory, the perfection Of a woman is her mind, All her other charms excelling.

Glory be to the Californiasof the future, when we are dirt, and our children have found the gold!"

The imagination of a great poet alone can finally show to the imagination of the world that even the glories of war are an empty delusion.

" Winchester's next glory was the birth of Henry III., known to the day of his death as Henry of Winchesterthis in 1207.

The woods were brilliant with wild flowers, although it was so late in the season that the glory of the summer was well-nigh past.

The glories of our blood and state Are shadows, not substantial things; There is no armour against fate: Death lays his icy hand on kings: Sceptre and crown Must tumble down, And in the dust be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade.

False glory is the farthest in the world from insinuating its witchcraft into the undepraved heart, where the vain and malignant passions have not yet erected their standard.

"For to her all former glory is less a jewel than a touchstone, and with her portion of it daily she appraises her own doing, and without vain speech.

"Glory, glory for the Crimson, Glory, glory for the Crimson, Glory, glory for the Crimson, For this is Harwell's day," sang the throng.

Glory to that being whose deceptive adoption of father, son, brother, friend, mother, and relative, the world is unable to penetrate.

'The later glory of this temple shall be greater than the former,' saith Jehovah of hosts; 'and in this place will I grant prosperity,' is the oracle of Jehovah of hosts.

the pinnace was dismantled; the revel and the revellers were found no more; the glory of the vintage was dust; and the forest was left without a witness to its beauty upon the seas.

How well a golden glory would become that sunny head!

Glory, in fact, is a relative word, and can be only used of any being in relation to other rational beings, and their opinion of him.

His words are lies, his oaths perjuries, his studies subtilties, and his practices villainies; his wealth is his wit, his honour is his wealth, his glory is his gain, and his god is his gold.

As the great event of David's reign was the removal of the Ark to Jerusalem, so the culminating glory of Solomon was the dedication of the Temple he had built to the worship of Jehovah.

It is the Christ in them which we love; and that Christ in them is their hope of glory; and that glory is the glory of Christ.

For, in the fresh impulse and freedom born of this service, she soon found, not only that she thought better and more clearly on the points that troubled her, but that, thus spending herself, she grew more able to believe there must be One whose glory is perfect ministration.

" Swinburne's crowning glory is his unquestioned mastery, unsurpassed by any poet since Milton, of the technique of varied melodious verse.

" "Glory is a good bird, when she lays a golden egg; but he that returns with his toróks (straps behind the saddle) empty, is ashamed to appear before his wife.

But the room's greatest glory, as I have said, is the Giorgione on the easel.