 The 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 ascribed every event...  Critical and historical essays - Page 21by Thomas Babington Macaulay (baron [essays]) - 1883Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1866 - 704 pages
...Bassanio in the play, turn from the specious caskets which contain only the Death's head and the Fool's head, and fix on the plain leaden chest which conceals...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,... | |
 | 1866 - 692 pages
...436. (Thirteenth edition.) London : Longman, Brown, & Co. THE PURITANS. LORD MACACLAY says : — " 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,... | |
 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - 1866 - 618 pages
...ii4th, 1863. in. 79. THE PURITANS. TI THE Puritans * -were men whose minds had derived a peculiar -1_ character from the daily contemplation of superior...habitually ascribed every event to the will of the Great Being, for whose power nothing (nutb/ing) was too vast, for whose inspection nothing was too minute.... | |
 | William Carlos Martyn - 1867 - 502 pages
...the laughers. But it is not from the laughers alone that the philosophy of history is to be learned. "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,... | |
 | Richard Edwards - 1867 - 386 pages
...seasons for thine own, O Death! LXVIII.—THE PXJUTANSyiS TB MACAULAY. .... ^ , 1. The Puritans were meii whose minds had derived a peculiar character from...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,... | |
 | 1868 - 978 pages
...simplicity, and vigour, let us just take Macaulay on the Puritans : — " The Puritans were men whose minde had derived a peculiar character from the daily contemplation...habitually ascribed every event to the will of the Great Being, for whoee power nothing was toa vast, for whose inspection nothing was too minute. To know Him,... | |
 | English authors - 1869 - 458 pages
...Bassanio in the play, turn from the specious caskets which contain only the Death's head and the Fool's head, and fix on the plain leaden chest which conceals...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,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1871 - 704 pages
...Bassanio in the play, turn from the specious caskets which contain only the Death's head and the Fool's head, and fix on the plain leaden chest which conceals...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,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay (baron [essays]) - 1874 - 328 pages
...Bassanio in the play, turn from the specious caskets which contain only the Death's head and the Fool's head, and fix on the plain leaden chest which conceals...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,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay (baron [essays]) - 1874 - 264 pages
...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....habitually ascribed every event to the will of the Great Being, for wftose power nothing was loo vast, for whose inspection nothing was too minute. To know... | |
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