 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 - Page 16by Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1846 - 758 pagesFull view - About this book
 | David Bates Tower - 1853 - 444 pages
...was a being to whose fate a mysterious and terrible importance belonged ; on whose slightest action the spirits of light and darkness looked with anxious...proud, calm, 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... | |
 | J. S. B. Thacher - New England - 1849 - 44 pages
...proud, * Bradford's Hist. Mass, pp. 29, 30. f Ibid p. 31. t Whitman't Hist. An. and Hon. Ar. Co. 12. calm, inflexible, sagacious. He prostrated himself...prayed with convulsions and groans and tears. He was hah' maddened by glorious or terrible illusions. He heard the lyres of angels, or the tempting whispers... | |
 | Theology - 1850 - 778 pages
...of two different men : the one all self-abasement, penitence, gratitude, passion ; the other projud, calm, inflexible, sagacious. He prostrated himself...devotional retirement, he prayed with convulsions, groans, and tears. He was half-maddened by glorious or terrible illusions. He heard the lyres of angels,... | |
 | English essays - 1852 - 780 pages
...ministering angels had charge over •farm Their palaces were houses not made » Gcriualemme Uberata, IT. K, under him, not a single one fo«t on the neck of his king. In his devotional retirement, he prayed with convulsions, and groans,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1852 - 764 pages
...of the prophet. He had been rescued by no common deliverer from the grasp of no common foe. He hail outhey, that, though he evidently has no liking for...which some members of his party have done more than fool on the neck of his king. In his devotional retirement, he prayed with convulsions, and groans,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1853 - 658 pages
...shuddered at the sufferings of her expiring God. Thus the Puritan was made up of two different VOL. LE men, the one all self-abasement, penitence, gratitude,...he prayed with convulsions, and groans, and tears. Ho was half-maddened by glorious or terrible illusions. He heard the lyres of angels or the tempting... | |
 | Religion - 1855 - 424 pages
...rent, that the dead had arisen, that all nature had shuddered at the sufferings of her expiring God I Thus the Puritan was made up of two different men...Maker ; but he set his foot on the neck of his king. ID hia devotional retirement, he prayed with convulsions, and groans, and tears. He was half maddened... | |
 | 1855 - 616 pages
...sacrifice. It was for him that the sun had been darkened, that the rocks had been rent, that dead had risen, that all nature had shuddered at the sufferings of...calm, inflexible, sagacious. He prostrated himself before his Maker, but he set his foot on the neck of his king. In his devotional retirement, he prayed... | |
 | Frederick Saunders, Thomas Bangs Thorpe - America - 1855 - 436 pages
...the sufferings of her expiring God! " Thus the Puritan was made up of two different men— the one self-abasement, penitence, gratitude, passion ; the...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 was half maddened by... | |
 | 1856 - 428 pages
...that the sim had been darkened,* that the rocks had been rent, that the dead had arisen, that £11 nature had shuddered at the sufferings of her expiring...dust before his Maker : but he set his foot on the nick of the king. In his devotional retirement, he prayed with convulsions, and groans, and tears.... | |
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