 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
 | John Henry Newman - 1876 - 414 pages
...difficult to say which of the various motive principles was uppermost. "The Puritan," says Macaulay, " prostrated himself in the dust before his Maker, but he set his foot on the neck of his king :" I am not accusing such a man of hypocrisy on account of this ; having great wrongs, as he considered,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1880 - 640 pages
...made 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... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1880 - 844 pages
...made 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... | |
 | William Swinton - 1880 - 694 pages
...penitence, gratitude, passion, the other proud, calm, inflexible, sagacious. He prostrated himself in the 90 dust before his Maker ; but he set his foot on the neck of his LITERARY ANALYSIS. — 67-71. On the rich . . . hand. Analyze this fine sentence. What is its structure... | |
 | 1881 - 578 pages
...made up of two different men, the one all self-abasement, penitence, gratitude, passion ; the other n with others. But the glory of the battle which he...valuable, and which was then the least understood, Ho heard the lyres of angels or the tempting whispers of fiends. He caught a gleam of the Beatific... | |
 | Jacob W. Shoemaker - 1881 - 220 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... | |
 | 1881 - 726 pages
...of men ; the one all self-abasement, penitence, gratitude ; the other calm, sagacious, inflexible. He prostrated himself in the dust before his Maker...he prayed with convulsions, and groans, and tears. Hut when he took his scat in the Council, or girt on his sword for war, these tempestuous workings... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1882 - 878 pages
...made 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... | |
 | 1882 - 510 pages
...self-abasement, penitence, gratitude ; the other calm, sagacious, inflexible. He prostrated himsslf in the dust before his Maker ; but he set his foot...he prayed with convulsions, and groans, and tears. 13ut when he took his seat in the Council, or girt on his sword for war, these tempestuous workings... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1882 - 1108 pages
...all self-abasement, penitence, gratitude, passion: the other proud, calm, inflexible, sagacious. lie prostrated himself in the dust before his Maker; but...devotional retirement, he prayed with convulsions nnd groans and tears. He was halfmaddened by glorious or terrible illusions. lie heard !he lyres of... | |
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