 | Ethan Smith - 1833 - 422 páginas
...most remarkable body of men the world ever knew. For many years they were the theme of unmeasurable invective and derision. They were exposed to the utmost licentiousness of the press and of the stage, at a time when the press and the stage were licentious. The public would not take them under... | |
 | 1835 - 932 páginas
...parties from those who really deserved to ße called (artisans. We would speak first of Ihe Puritans, the most remarkable body of men, perhaps, which the...there been wanting attentive and malicious observers lo point them out. For many years after the Restoration, they were the Ihemc of unmeasured invective... | |
 | John Warner Barber - 1836 - 598 páginas
...Fathers," is worthy of preservation. " The Puritans," says a writer in no wise partial to them, "were the most remarkable body of men, perhaps, which the world has ever produced They were men whose minds had derived a peculiar character from the daily contemplation of superior... | |
 | John Warner Barber - 1839 - 674 páginas
...ever yet possessed. " The Puritans (says a celebrated foreign writer, in no wise partial to them) were the most remarkable body of men, perhaps, which the world has ever produced. — They were men whose minds had derived a peculiar character from the daily contemplation of superior... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1840 - 466 páginas
...parties from those who really deserved to be called partisans. We would speak first of the Puritans, the most remarkable body of men perhaps, which the...the utmost licentiousness of the press and of the stage, at the time when the press and the stage were most licentious. They were not men of letters... | |
 | Charles Hodge, Lyman Hotchkiss Atwater - 1840 - 644 páginas
...Puritans may, with certain exceptions, be trusted in such hands: "We would speak first of the Puritans, the most remarkable body of men, perhaps, which the...the utmost licentiousness of the press and of the stage, at the time when the press and the stage were most licentious. They were not men of letters;... | |
 | John Warner Barber - 1841 - 678 páginas
...ever yet possessed. " The Puritans (says a celebrated foreign writer, in no wise partial to them) were the most remarkable body of men, perhaps, which the world has ever produced.—They were men whose minds had derived a peculiar character from the daily contemplation... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1844 - 614 páginas
...parties from those who really deserved to be called partisans. We would speak first of the Puritans, the most remarkable body of men, perhaps, which the...the theme of unmeasured invective and derision. They weie exposed to the utmost licentiousness of the press and of the stage, at the time when the press... | |
 | Nathan Marcus Adler - 1845 - 696 páginas
...words in their defence. Who were the Puritans ? " They were," says one of the first of living writers, "the most remarkable body of men, perhaps, which the world has ever produced ; they were men whose minds had derived a peculiar character from the daily contemplation of supernatural... | |
 | Thomas Babington baron Macaulay - 1846 - 222 páginas
...unchilled on the verge of the avalanche. CHARACTER OF THE PURITANS. We would speak first of the Puritans, the most remarkable body of men perhaps, which the...the utmost licentiousness of the press and of the stage, at the time when the press and the stage were most licentious. They were not men of letters... | |
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We would speak first of the Puritans, the most remarkable body of men, perhaps, which the world has ever produced. The odious and ridiculous parts of their character lie on the surface. He that runs may read them; nor have there been wanting attentive... 
