...example the following extract, in which he describes in glowing terms, the Puritan Creed and character. "The Puritans were men whose minds had derived a peculiar...habitually ascribed every event to the will of the Great Being, for whose power nothing was too vast, for whose inspection nothing was too minute. To know Him,...

...against the influence of that potent ridicule which has already misled so many excellent writers.. The Puritans were men whose minds had derived a peculiar...habitually ascribed every event to the will of the Great Being, for whose power nothing was too vast, for whose inspection nothing was too minute. To know him,...

...and eloquence, stands first among the writIngs of " the great essayist of the age" — TB Maeaulay. "The Puritans were men whose minds had derived a peculiar...habitually ascribed every event to the will of the Great Being, for whose power nothing was too vast, for whose inspection nothing was too minute. To know him,...

...from the specious caskets which contain only the Death's head and the Fool's head, and fix our choice on the plain leaden chest which conceals the treasure....from the daily contemplation of superior beings and external interests. Not content with acknowledging, in general terms, an overruling Providence, they...

...Puritans were men whose minds had derived a peculiar character from the daily contemplation of su perior beings and eternal interests. Not content with acknowledging,...habitually ascribed every event to the will of the Great Being, for whose power nothing was too east, for whose inspection nothing was too minute. To know him,...

...he quietly abdicated his office, and retired into private life, LESSON XXX.— FKIDAY. THE PUEITANS. The Puritans -were men whose minds had derived a peculiar...habitually ascribed every event to the will of the Great Being, for whose power nothing was too vast, for whose inspection nothing was too minute. To know him,...

...were men whose minds had derived a peculiar character from the dally contemplation of superior being* and eternal interests. Not content with acknowledging-,...habitually ascribed every event to the will of the Great Being, for whose power nothing was too vast. Tor whose inspection nothing was too minute. To know him,...

...adviser ! THE PURITANS. ВТ THOMAS BABINGTON МЛСЛИТЛУ. The Puritans were men whose minils bad derived a peculiar character from the daily contemplation...habitually ascribed every event to the will of the Great Being, for whose power nothing was too vast, for whose inspection nothing was too minute. To know him,...

...belong ? CHAPTER XI. THE PURITANS. — [MACAULAV.] 1. The Puritans were men whose minds had derived i peculiar character from the daily contemplation of...habitually ascribed every event to the will of the Great Being, for whose power nothing was too vast, for whose inspection nothing was too minute. To know'...

...Puritans has been delineated, most admirably, by the first literary portrait-sketcher of the age. " The Puritans were men whose minds had derived a peculiar...interests. Not content with acknowledging, in general tenns, an overruling providence, they habitually ascribed every event to the will of the great Being,...