These fanatics brought to civil and military affairs a coolness of judgment and an immutability of purpose which some writers have thought inconsistent with their religious zeal, but which were in fact the necessary effects of it. The intensity of their... Reviews, Essays, and Poems - Página 26de Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1890 - 1058 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| James Sheridan Knowles - 1847 - 344 páginas
...everlasting fire. Like Vane, he thought himself intrusted with the sceptre of the millennial world; like Fleetwood, he cried in the bitterness of his...other. One overpowering sentiment had subjected to itsfilf pity and hatred, ambition and fear. Death had lost its terrors and. pleasure its charms. They... | |
| David Bates Tower - 1853 - 444 páginas
...reason to laugh, who encountered them in the hall of debate, or in the field of battle. The Puritans brought to civil and military affairs a coolness of...raptures and their sorrows, but not for the things of this world. Enthusiasm had made them stoics, had cleared their minds from every vulgar passion and... | |
| Allen Hayden Weld - 1848 - 120 páginas
...thought inconsistent with their religious zeal, but which were, in fact, the necessary effects of it 10. The intensity of their feelings on one subject made...Death had lost its terrors, and pleasure its charms. 11. They had their smiles and their tears, their raptures and their sorrows, but not for the things... | |
| 1849 - 606 páginas
...had little reason to laugh who encountered them in the hall of debate, or in the field of battle." " The intensity of their feelings on one subject, made...Death had lost its terrors, and pleasure its charms." As were the Puritans of Old England, BO in a great degree were the Chief Fathers of New England. The... | |
| Edwin Paxton Hood - 1851 - 224 páginas
...Vision, or woke, screaming, from dreams of everlasting fire. Like Vane, he thought himself entrusted with the sceptre of the millennial year. Like Fleetwood,...raptures and their sorrows, but not for the things .of this world. Enthusiasm had made them Stoics, had cleared their minds from every vulgar passion and... | |
| Edward Lutwyche Parker - 1851 - 464 páginas
...coolness of judgment, and an immutability of purpose, which were the necessary effect of their zeal. The intensity of their feelings on one subject made...raptures and their sorrows, but not for the things of this world. They had their minds cleared of every vulgar passion and prejudice, and raised above the... | |
| 1852 - 780 páginas
...fact the necessary effects of it. The intensity of their feelings on one subject made them ttanquil rth. This species of misrepresentation abounds in...his story like a slovenly witness, who, heated by this world. Enthusiasm had made them stoics, had cleared their minds from every vulgar passion and... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1852 - 764 páginas
...coolness of judgment and an immutability of (purpose which some writers have thought ¡¿consistent with their religious zeal, but which ¡were in fact...itself pity and hatred, ambition and fear. Death had lust its terrors and pleasure its charms. They had their smiles and heir tears, their raptures and... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1853 - 658 páginas
...lyres of angels or the tempting whispers of fiends. He caught a gleam of the Beatific Vision, or woke screaming from dreams of everlasting fire. Like Vane,...raptures and their sorrows, but not for the things of this world. Enthusiasm had made them Stoics, had cleared their minds from every vulgar passion and... | |
| 1853 - 334 páginas
...brought to civil and military affairs a coolness of judgment and an immutability of purpose, which son.e writers have thought inconsistent with their religious...raptures and their sorrows, but not for the things of this world. Enthusiasm had made them stoics, had cleared their minds from every vulgar passion and... | |
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