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
| Popular educator - 1854 - 922 páginas
...groans, and tears. He was half-maddened by glorious or terrible illusions. He heard the lyres of angele, or the tempting whispers of fiends. He caught a gleam...woke screaming from dreams of everlasting fire. Like Yane, he thought himself intrusted with the sceptre of the mulc'nnial year. Like Fleetwood, he cried... | |
| David Bates Tower, Cornelius Walker - 1855 - 442 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,...woke screaming from dreams of everlasting fire. Like Yane, he thought himself intrusted with the sceptre of the millennial year. Like Fleetwood, he cried,... | |
| Thomas Bangs Thorpe - 1855 - 412 páginas
...calm, inllexible, sagacious. Ho prostrated himself in the dust before his Maker; but he set his foot on the neck of his king. In his devotional retirement,...Beatific Vision, or woke screaming from dreams of and hcar wLfi— rj hrmns, rn:.ri:t la-ijb ii :Lra. P.3J -.- *: ii- .. : • r--ai; !i^h who encountered... | |
| Frederick Saunders, Thomas Bangs Thorpe - 1855 - 436 páginas
...before his Maker ; but he set his foot on the neck of his king. In his devoO tional retirement,Jie prayed with convulsions, and groans, and tears. He...dreams of everlasting fire. Like Vane, he thought himself intrusted with the sceptre of the millennial year. Like Fleetwood, he cried, in the bitterness... | |
| 1855 - 616 páginas
...but he set his foot on the neck of his king. In his devotional retirement, he prayed with convulsive groans and tears. He was half maddened by glorious...or the tempting• whispers of fiends. He caught a glimpse of the Beautiful Vision, or woke screaming from dreams of everlasting fire. Like Vane, he thought... | |
| 1856 - 428 páginas
...his devotional retirement, he prayed with convulsions, and groans, and tears. He was half-maddened by glorious or terrible illusions. He heard the lyres...beatific vision, or woke screaming from dreams of everliisting fire. Like Vane, he thought himself intrusted with the sceptre of the millennial year.... | |
| 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
...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... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1858 - 780 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,...tempting whispers of fiends. He caught a gleam of the Bealifio. Vision, or woke screaming from dreams of everlasting fire. Like Vane, he thought himself... | |
| 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....dreams of everlasting fire. Like Vane, he thought himself entrusted with the sceptre of the millennial year. Like Fleetwood, he cried, in the bitterness... | |
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