 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.  A Voice to America: Or, The Model Republic, Its Glory, Or Its Fall: with a ... - Página 32de Frederick Saunders, Thomas Bangs Thorpe - 1855 - 404 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | 1859 - 340 páginas
...were men of the character whom these historians describe. " In his devotional retirement the puritan prayed with convulsions, and groans and tears. He was half maddened by glorious or terrible allusions. He heard the lyres of angels or the tempting whispers of fiends. * * * But when he took... | |
 | Daniel Coit Gilman - 1859 - 146 páginas
...with convulsions, and groans 31 and tears. He was half maddened by glorious or terrible allusions. He heard the lyres of angels or the tempting whispers of fiends. * * * But when he took his seat in the council or girt on his sword for war, these tempestuous workings... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1860 - 820 páginas
...dust before his Maker ; but he set his foet on the neck of his king. In his devotional retirement, he prayed with convulsions, and groans, and tears. He...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... | |
 | Robert Ross - 1860 - 516 páginas
...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...of everlasting fire. Like Vane, he thought himself entrusted with the sceptre of the millenial year. Like Fleetwood, he cried in the bitterness of his... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1861 - 752 páginas
...dust before his Maker ; but he set his foet on the neck of his king. In his devotional retirement, he hem 01 God/had hid his face from him. But when he too# his seat in the council, or girt on his sword for war,... | |
 | William Jordan Unwin - 1862 - 300 páginas
...dust before his Maker ; but he set his foot on the neck of his king. In his devotional retirement he prayed with convulsions, and groans, and tears. He...of everlasting fire. Like Vane, he thought himself entrusted with the sceptre of the millennial year. Like Fleet-wood, he cried in the bitterness of his... | |
 | Matthew Baxter - 1865 - 534 páginas
...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 páginas
...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 páginas
...shuddered at the sufferings of her expiring God ! neck of his king. In his devotional retirement, he prayed with convulsions and groans and tears. He was...fire. Like Vane, he thought himself intrusted with the scepter of the millennial year. Like Fleetwood, he cried in the bitterness of his soul that God had... | |
 | Francis Henry Underwood - 1871 - 664 páginas
...dust before his Maker ; but he set his foot on the neck of his king. In his devotional retirement, he prayed with convulsions, and groans, and tears. He...intrusted with the sceptre of the millennial year. Like Flcetwood, he cried in the bitterness of his soul that God had hid his face from him. But when he took... | |
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