Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 1Longmans, Green, 1890 |
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... altered , without the slightest shame or repugnance . These we leave out of the account . We take our estimate of parties from those who really deserve to be called partisans , We would speak first of the Puritans , the most 48 MILTON .
... altered , without the slightest shame or repugnance . These we leave out of the account . We take our estimate of parties from those who really deserve to be called partisans , We would speak first of the Puritans , the most 48 MILTON .
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Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay. We would speak first of the Puritans , the most remarkable body of men , perhaps , which the world has ever produced . The odious and ridiculous parts of their character lie on the surface . He ...
Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay. We would speak first of the Puritans , the most remarkable body of men , perhaps , which the world has ever produced . The odious and ridiculous parts of their character lie on the surface . He ...
Page 50
... Puritans were men whose minds had derived a peculiar character from the daily contemplation of superior beings and eternal interests . Not content with acknowledging , in general terms , an overruling Providence , they habitually ...
... Puritans were men whose minds had derived a peculiar character from the daily contemplation of superior beings and eternal interests . Not content with acknowledging , in general terms , an overruling Providence , they habitually ...
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... 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 ...
... 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 ...
Page 53
... Puritans . We perceive the absurdity of their man- ners . We dislike the sullen gloom of their domestic habits . We acknowledge that the tone of their minds was often injured by straining after things too high for mortal reach : and we ...
... Puritans . We perceive the absurdity of their man- ners . We dislike the sullen gloom of their domestic habits . We acknowledge that the tone of their minds was often injured by straining after things too high for mortal reach : and we ...
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