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. Essays, Critical and Miscellaneous - Page 16by Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1852 - 744 pagesFull view - About this book
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1860 - 820 pages
...calm, inflexible, sagacious. He prostrated himself in the dust before his Maker ; but he set his foet on the neck of his king. In his devotional retirement,...tempting whispers of fiends. He caught a gleam of the Bealiñc Vision, or woke screaming from dreams of everlasting fire. Like Vane, he thought himself intrusted... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1897 - 1102 pages
...his devotional ri?tirement, he prayed with convulsions, and groans, and tears. He was half-maddened by glorious or terrible illusions. He heard the lyres...dreams of everlasting fire. Like Vane, he thought himself intrusted with the sceptre of the millennial year. Like Fleetwood, he cried in the bitterness... | |
| David Masson - 1860 - 282 pages
...In his devotional retirement, he prayed with convulsions, and groans, and tears. He was halfmaddened by glorious or terrible illusions. He heard the lyres...dreams of everlasting fire. Like Vane, he thought himself intrusted with the sceptre of the millennial year. Like Fleetwood, he cried in the bitterness... | |
| Robert Ross - 1860 - 516 pages
...retirement, he prayed with convulsions, and groans, and tears. He was half-maddened by glorious or horrible illusions. He heard the lyres of angels, or the tempting...dreams of everlasting fire. Like Vane, he thought himself entrusted with the sceptre of the millenial year. Like Fleetwood, he cried in the bitterness... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1861 - 752 pages
...calm, inflexible, sagacious. He prostrated himself in the dust before his Maker ; but he set his foet W dcn %Я *, ɐ 2z 0 ,[ * Ҧq K z D9A R ? iN e 'Ϙ 4... W h + _ |_ =.}憸 = FXW6 Q% Np b ᝥ 4 *#=# ( / himself intrusted with the sceptre of the millennial year. Like Fleetwood, he cried in the bitterness... | |
| William Jordan Unwin - 1862 - 300 pages
...calm, inflexible, sagacious. He prostrated himself in the dust before his Maker ; but he set his foot on the neck of his king. In his devotional retirement...dreams of everlasting fire. Like Vane, he thought himself entrusted with the sceptre of the millennial year. Like Fleet-wood, he cried in the bitterness... | |
| Matthew Baxter - 1865 - 534 pages
...neck of his King.' In his devotional retirement he prayed with convulsions, and groans, and tears. But he was half maddened by glorious or terrible illusions....woke screaming from dreams of everlasting fire. Like Vaiie, he thought himself entrusted with the sceptre of the millennial year. Like Fleetwood, he cried... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1866 - 704 pages
...his devotional retirement, he prayed with convulsions, and groans, and tears. He was half-maddened by glorious or terrible illusions. He heard the lyres...Beatific Vision, or woke screaming from dreams of ever• lasting fire. Like Vane, he thought himself intrusted with the sceptre of the millennial year.... | |
| Richard Edwards - 1867 - 386 pages
...rent, that the dead had arisen, that all nature had shuddered at the sufferings of her expiring God ! neck of his king. In his devotional retirement, he...dreams of everlasting fire. Like Vane, he thought himself intrusted with the scepter of the millennial year. Like Fleetwood, he cried in the bitterness... | |
| English authors - 1869 - 458 pages
...his devotional retirement, he prayed with convulsions, and groans, and tears. He was half-maddened by glorious or terrible illusions. He heard the lyres...dreams of everlasting fire. Like Vane, he thought himself intrusted with the sceptre of the millennial year. Like Fleetwood, he cried in the bitterness... | |
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