 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 - 1852 - 744 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | James Sheridan Knowles - 1847 - 344 páginas
...prayed with convulsions, and groans, and tears. He was half-maddened by glorious or terrible delusions. He heard the lyres of angels, or the tempting whispers...dreams of everlasting fire. Like Vane, he thought himself intrusted with the sceptre of the millennial world; like Fleetwood, he cried in the bitterness... | |
 | David Bates Tower - 1853 - 444 páginas
...inflexible, sagacious. He prostrated inn:-.. self in the dust before his Maker ; but he set his foot on the neck of his king. In his devotional retirement,...dreams of everlasting fire. Like Vane, he thought himself intrusted with the sceptre of the millennial year. Like Fleetwood, he cried, in the bitterness... | |
 | J. S. B. Thacher - 1849 - 44 páginas
...his king. In his devotional retirement he prayed with convulsions and groans and tears. He was hah' maddened by glorious or terrible illusions. He heard...dreams of everlasting fire, Like Vane, he thought himself intrusted with the sceptre of the Millennial year. Like Fleetwood, he cried in the bitterness... | |
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - 1851 - 224 páginas
...calm, inflexible, sagacious. He prostrated himself in the dust before his Maker — but he set his foot on the neck of his king. In his devotional retirement,...dreams of everlasting fire. Like Vane, he thought himself entrusted with the sceptre of the millennial year. Like Fleetwood, he cried, in the bitterness... | |
 | 1852 - 780 páginas
...calm, inflexible, sagacious. He prostrated himself in the dust before his Maker ; but he set his fo«t he progress of knowledge will necessarily be fatal to a sv§tem which has, to say the least, himself intrusted with the sceptre of ilie millennial year. Like Fleetwood, he cried in the bitterness... | |
 | 1853 - 334 páginas
...calm, inflexible, sagacious. He prostrated himself in the dust before his Maker ; but he set his foot on the neck of his king. In his devotional retirement,...dreams of everlasting fire. Like Vane, he thought himself intrusted with the sceptre of the millennial year. Like Flectwood, he cried, in the bitterness... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - 1853 - 492 páginas
...+ inflexible, + sagacious. He prostrated himself in the dust before his Maker; but he set his foot on the neck of his king. In his devotional retirement,...fiends. He caught a gleam of the "'"beatific vision, or waked screaming, from dreams of everlasting fire. But when he took his seat in the council, or girt... | |
 | 1853 - 706 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 • glimpse of the BeatificWiBion, or woke •creaming from dreams of everlasting fire." VOL. II. 17... | |
 | David Bates Tower, Cornelius Walker - 1854 - 440 páginas
...calm, inflexible, sagacious. He prostrated himself in the dust before his Maker ; but he set his foot on the neck of his king. In his devotional retirement,...dreams of everlasting fire. Like Vane, he thought himself intrusted with the sceptre of the millennial year. Like Fleetwood, he cried, in the bitterness... | |
 | Jesse Olney - 1854 - 352 páginas
...calm, inflexible, Sagacious. He prostrated himself in the dust before his Maker; but he set his foot on the neck of his king. In his devotional retirement,...or woke screaming from dreams of everlasting fire. 9. Like Vane,f he thought himself intrusted with the sceptre of the millennial year. Like Fleetwood,J... | |
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