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
| 1881 - 726 páginas
...of men ; the one all self-abasement, penitence, gratitude ; the other calm, sagacious, inflexible. He prostrated himself in the dust before his Maker...he prayed with convulsions, and groans, and tears. Hut when he took his scat in the Council, or girt on his sword for war, these tempestuous workings... | |
| Edwin Paxton Hood - 1882 - 346 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... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1882 - 878 páginas
...men, 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... | |
| 1882 - 510 páginas
...self-abasement, penitence, gratitude ; the other calm, sagacious, inflexible. He prostrated himsslf in the dust before his Maker ; but he set his foot...he prayed with convulsions, and groans, and tears. 13ut when he took his seat in the Council, or girt on his sword for war, these tempestuous workings... | |
| Alfred Hix Welsh - 1882 - 1108 páginas
...all self-abasement, penitence, gratitude, passion: the other proud, calm, inflexible, sagacious. lie prostrated himself in the dust before his Maker; but...devotional retirement, he prayed with convulsions nnd groans and tears. He was halfmaddened by glorious or terrible illusions. lie heard !he lyres of... | |
| Otis Henry Tiffany - 1883 - 954 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... | |
| Alfred Hix Welsh - 1883 - 586 páginas
...all self-abasement, penitence, gratitude, passion; the other proud, calm, inflexible, sagacious. lie prostrated himself in the dust before his Maker; but...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... | |
| 1884 - 780 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... | |
| John Swett - 1884 - 404 páginas
...mbn, 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-mdddened by glorious } or terrible illusions. He heard the lyres of angels \ or the tempting whispers... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay (baron [essays], Milton.), Alexander Mackie - 1884 - 216 páginas
...all self-abasement, penitence, gratitude, passions ; the other proud, calm, inflexible, sagacious. 25 He prostrated himself in the dust before his Maker...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... | |
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