Thus the Puritan was made up of two different men: the one all self-abasement, penitence, gratitude, passion; the other proud, calm, inflexible, sagacious. He prostrated himself in the dust before his Maker; but he set his foot on the neck of his king. Essays, Critical and Miscellaneous - Página 16por Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1858 - 744 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Temple Christian Faber - 1857 - 502 páginas
...race from Him on whom their eyes were constantly fixed. Thus the Puritan was made up of two different men, — the one, all \self-abasement, penitence,...devotional retirement, he prayed with convulsions, groans, and tears ; but when he took his seat in the council or girt on his sword for war, these tempestuous... | |
| 1857 - 676 páginas
...they aspired to gaze full on the intolerable brightness, and to commune with Him face to face. * * * In his devotional retirement, he prayed with convulsions...angels or the tempting whispers of' fiends. He caught a glimpse of the Beatific Vision, or woke screaming from dreams of everlasting fire." VOL. II. 17 But,... | |
| Thomas Buckley Smith - 1858 - 310 páginas
...no common deliverer from the grasp of no common foe. Thus the Puritan was made up of two different men, — the one all self-abasement, penitence, gratitude,...tempting whispers of fiends. He caught a gleam of the beatific vision, or woke screaming from dreams of everlasting fire. Like Vane, he thought himself entrusted... | |
| Edwin Paxton Hood - 1858 - 276 páginas
...had shuddered at the sufferings of her expiring God. " Thus the Puritan was made up of two different men; the one all self-abasement, penitence, gratitude,...retirement, he prayed with convulsions, and groans, and tears.—He was half maddened by glorious or terrible illusions. He heard the lyres of angels, or the... | |
| Edwin Paxton Hood - 1858 - 272 páginas
...of his king. In his devotional retirement, he prayed with convulsions, and groans, and tears.—He was half maddened by glorious or terrible illusions....tempting whispers of fiends. He caught a gleam of the Beatific Vision, or woke, screaming, from dreams of everlasting fire. Like Vane, he thought himself... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1860 - 820 páginas
...by the sweat of no vulgar agony, by the blood of no earthly sacrifice. It was for him that the snn had been darkened, that the rocks had been rent, that...himself in the dust before his Maker ; but he set his foet on the neck of his king. In his devotional retirement, he prayed with convulsions, and groans,... | |
| David Masson - 1860 - 282 páginas
...had shuddered at the sufferings of her expiring God ! Thus the Puritan was made up of two different men, the one all self-abasement, penitence, gratitude,...prayed with convulsions, and groans, and tears. He was halfmaddened by glorious or terrible illusions. He heard the lyres of angels or the tempting whispers... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1860 - 1084 páginas
...had shuddered at the sufferings of her expiring God. Thus the Puritan was made up of two different men, the one all self-abasement, penitence, gratitude,...prayed with convulsions, and groans, and tears. He was half-maddened by glorious or terrible illusions. He heard the lyres of angels or the tempting whispers... | |
| Robert Ross - 1860 - 516 páginas
...shuddered at the sufferings of her expiring God. Thus the Puritan was made up of two different men—the one all self-abasement, penitence, gratitude, passion;...prayed with convulsions, and groans, and tears. He was half-maddened by glorious or horrible illusions. He heard the lyres of angels, or the tempting whispers... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1860 - 766 páginas
...and priests by the imposition of a mightier hand. " The Puritan, indeed, was made up of two different men ; the one all self-abasement, penitence, gratitude,...he prayed with convulsions, and groans, and tears. People who saw nothing of the godly but their uncouth visages, and heard nothing from them but their... | |
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