 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.  Selections from the Writings of Lord Macaulay - Page 249by Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1903 - 475 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Ebenezer Porter - 1828 - 452 pages
...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 GO his foot on the neck of the king. In his devotional retirement, he prayed with convulsions, and... | |
 | James Hedderwick - 1833 - 232 pages
...up of two different men; the one, all self-abasement, penitence, gratitude, passion — the other, proud, calm, inflexible, sagacious. He prostrated...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... | |
 | 1836 - 332 pages
...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... | |
 | Charles Hodge, Lyman Hotchkiss Atwater - 1840 - 644 pages
...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; bul he set his foot on the neck of his king. In his devotional retirement, he prayed with convulsions,... | |
 | John Goldsbury, William Russell - 1844 - 444 pages
...himself in the dust before his Maker: but he set iO his foot on the neck of the king. In his dev6tional retirement, he prayed with convulsions, and groans, and tears. He was half maddened by gl6rious or terrible illusions. He heard the lyres of angels, or the tempting whispers of fiends. He... | |
 | John Goldsbury, William Russell - 1844 - 440 pages
...different men, the one all self-abasement, penitence, gratitude, passion ; the other pr6.ud, caim, inflexible, sagacious. He prostrated himself in the dust before his Maker : but he set *0 his foot on the neck of the king. In his dev6lional retirement, he prayed with convulsions, and... | |
 | John Goldsbury, William Russell - 1844 - 444 pages
...of tw6 different men, the one all self-abasement, penitence, gratitude, passion ; the other pr6ud, calm, inflexible, sagacious. He prostrated himself in the dust before his Maker : but he.set i0 his foot on the neck of the king. In his devotional retirement, he prayed with convulsions,... | |
 | Jesse Olney - 1845 - 348 pages
...made up of two different men; the one all self-abasement, penitence, gratitude, passion; the other proud, calm, inflexible, sagacious. He prostrated...illusions. He heard the lyres of angels or the tempting whispjrs of fiends. He caught a gleam of the beatific vision, or woke screaming from dreams of everlasting... | |
 | John Fanning Watson - 1846 - 470 pages
...gratitude, and self-abasement; [like Cromwell, "with a heart to fear none but his God !"] the other, proud, calm, inflexible, sagacious. He prostrated himself in the dust before his Maker; but [like Cromwell, also,] he set his foot on the neck of his king." Such were the Puritans to the eye... | |
 | James Sheridan Knowles - 1847 - 344 pages
...men : the one all self-abasement, penitence, gratitude, passion ; the other proud, calm, indexible, sagacious. He prostrated himself in the dust before...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... | |
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