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 - 1859 - 744 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| 1832 - 852 páginas
...— the one all self-abasement, penitence, gratitude, passion ; the other proud, culm, inflexible, sagacious. He prostrated himself in the dust before...tempting whispers of fiends. He caught a gleam of the; beatific vision, or woke screaming from dreams of everlasting fire. Like Vane, he then with the see]... | |
| 1825 - 570 páginas
...men — the one all selfabasement, penitence, gratitude, passion; the other, proud, calm, inflexible, sagacious. He prostrated himself in the dust before...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 intrusted... | |
| 1825 - 582 páginas
...prostrated himself in the dust before his Maker: but he set bis foot on the neck of his king. In bis devotional retirement, he prayed with convulsions,...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 intrusted... | |
| 1826 - 596 páginas
...men, the one all self-abasement, penitence, gratitude, passion; the other proud, calm, inflexible, sagacious. He prostrated himself in the dust before...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... | |
| Ant The - 1827 - 366 páginas
...men, the one all self-abasement, penitence, gratitude, passion ; the other proud, calm, inflexible, sagacious. He prostrated himself in the dust before...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 intrusted... | |
| Ebenezer Porter - 1828 - 414 páginas
...sagacious. He prostrated himself in the dust before his Maker : but he set GO his foot on the neck of the king. In his devotional retirement, he prayed with...tempting whispers of fiends. He caught a gleam of the beatifick fire. Like Vane, he thought himself intrusted with the sceptre of the millennial year. Like... | |
| James Hedderwick - 1833 - 232 páginas
...the one, all self-abasement, penitence, gratitude, passion — the other, proud, calm, inflexible, sagacious. He prostrated himself in the dust before...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... | |
| 1835 - 932 páginas
...men, the one all selfabasement, penitence, gratitude, passion ; the other proud, calm, inflexible, sagacious. He prostrated himself in the dust before...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 intrusted... | |
| 1836 - 332 páginas
...passion; the other proud, calm, inflexible, sagacious. He prostrated himself in the dust before hfs Maker ; but he set his foot on the neck of his king....tears. He was half maddened by glorious or terrible illusionsHe heard the lyres of angels, or the temptmg whispers of fiends. He caught a gleam ot beatific... | |
| British and foreign young men's society - 1837 - 556 páginas
...one all selfabasement, penitence, gratitude, passion ; the other proud, calm, inflexible, sagacious. In his devotional retirement, he prayed with convulsions,...tempting whispers of fiends. He caught a gleam of the beatific vision, or awoke screaming from dreams of everlasting fire. Like Vane, he thought himself... | |
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