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" 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. "
The Young Man's Book of Elegant Prose: Comprising Selections from the ... - Page 93
1853 - 320 pages
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Analysis of the Principles of Rhetorical Delivery as Applied in Reading and ...

Ebenezer Porter - 1828 - 452 pages
...Thus the Puritan was made up of two different men, the one all self-abasement, penitence, gratitude, passion; the other proud, calm, inflexible, sagacious....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...
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The English Orator: a Selection of Pieces for Reading & Recitation

James Hedderwick - 1833 - 232 pages
...Thus, the Puritan was made up of two different men; the one, all self-abasement, penitence, gratitude, passion — the other, proud, calm, inflexible, sagacious....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...
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The Biblical Repertory and Princeton Review, Volume 12

Charles Hodge, Lyman Hotchkiss Atwater - 1840 - 644 pages
...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; bul he set his foot on the neck of his king. In his devotional retirement, he prayed with convulsions,...
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The American Common-school Reader and Speaker: Being a Selection of Pieces ...

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...
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The American Common-school Reader and Speaker: Being a Selection of Pieces ...

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...
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The American Common-school Reader and Speaker: Being a Selection of Pieces ...

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,...
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Knowles' Elocutionist: A First-class Rhetorical Reader and Recitation Book ...

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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The protector [O. Cromwell] a vindication. revised

Jean Henri Merle d'Aubigné - 1848 - 346 pages
...penitence, gratitude, passion ; the other " proud, calm, inflexible, sagacious. He prostrated him" self in the dust before his Maker : but he set his foot on * In the Edinburgh Review, where they originally appeared. " the neck of his king. In his devotional...
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The Era and the Apostles of Self-government: An Oration Delivered Before the ...

J. S. B. Thacher - 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...
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The Biblical Repository and Classical Review, Volume 6

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,...
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