 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1897 - 1102 sider
...Puritans were men whose minds had derived a peculiar character from the daily contemplation of su perior beings and eternal interests. Not content with acknowledging,...of the Great Being, for whose power nothing was too east, for whose inspection nothing was too minute. To know him, to serve him, to enjoy him, was with... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1860 - 778 sider
...contemplation of superior being* and eternal interest*. Not content with acknowledging, in general term*. sn overruling Providence, they habitually ascribed every...whose power nothing was too vast, for whose Inspection noUilng was too minute. To know him, to serve hint, to enjoy him, was with them the great end of exiiitence.... | |
 | David Masson - 1860 - 282 sider
...head and the Fool's head, and fix our choice on the plain leaden chest which conceals the treasure. The Puritans were men whose minds had derived a peculiar...from the daily contemplation of superior beings and external interests. Not content with acknowledging, in general terms, an overruling Providence, they... | |
 | 1860 - 886 sider
...greatest subjects that can touch human nature. The men who served under Cromwell were "men whose mind had derived a peculiar character from the daily contemplation of superior beings and eternal interests ;" and of the impulse of their '•nrnestness all parties in the state partook. The human mind —... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1861 - 752 sider
...minds had derived a peculiar character from the daily contemplation of superior beings and external Y W o_ & j ^n m= Q oz$d U u 2 (md[noX ... n : d 0 / u b F <] 6 D 9 6l F VMP (f Y L{w was1 too vaj t, for whose inspection nothing was too minute To know him, to serve him, to enjoy him,... | |
 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - 1863 - 614 sider
...of December, 1784 ; and a week later was laid in Westminster Abbey. 64. THE PURITANS. THE Puritans1 were men whose minds had derived a peculiar character...superior beings and eternal interests. Not content wife acknowledging, in general terms, an overruling Providence, they habitually ascribed every event... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 sider
...and eloquence, aland* flrst among the writIng* of " the great essayist of the age"—T. 1J, MacauLiy. "The Puritans were men whose minds had derived a peculiar character from the dally contemplation of superior being* and eternal interests. Not content with acknowledging-, in general... | |
 | 1864 - 974 sider
...supporters, that our readers wiU excuse the length of the quotation. It is from the Essay on Milton. " The Puritans were men whose minds had derived a peculiar...contemplation of superior beings and eternal interests. I*ot content with acknowledging in general terms an overruling Providence, they habitually ascribed... | |
 | Matthew Baxter - 1865 - 534 sider
...Puritans has been delineated, most admirably, by the first literary portrait-sketcher of the age. " The Puritans were men whose minds had derived a peculiar...interests. Not content with acknowledging, in general tenns, an overruling providence, they habitually ascribed every event to the will of the great Being,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1865 - 784 sider
...contemplation of superior beluga and eternal Interests. Not content with acknowledging, In general tcrma, an overruling Providence, they habitually ascribed...the will of the Great Being, for whose power nothing wo* too vast, for whose inspector! nothing wna too minute. To know him, to •erve bi«. to enjoy him,... | |
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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... 
