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" Thus the Puritan was made up of two different men, the one all selfabasement, 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 Selection from the Best English Essays Illustrative of the History of ... - Page 256
edited by - 1903 - 415 pages
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Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature, Volume 1

John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1844 - 614 pages
...that the dead !iî.t arisen, that all nature had shuddered at the irf ferings of her expiring God ! Thus the Puritan was made up of two different men, the one all self-abasement, реши ingratitude, passion ; the other proud, «dm, i» Hexible, sagacious. He prostrated liim«tli'.^...
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The American Common-school Reader and Speaker: Being a Selection of Pieces ...

John Goldsbury, William Russell - 1844 - 444 pages
...of tw6 different men, the one all self-abasement, penitence, gratitude, passion ; the other pr6ud, calm, inflexible, sagacious. He prostrated himself in the dust before his Maker : but he.set i0 his foot on the neck of the king. In his devotional retirement, he prayed with convulsions,...
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The District School Reader, Or, Exercises in Reading and Speaking: Designed ...

William Draper Swan - 1845 - 494 pages
...rent, that the dead had arisen, that all nature had shuddered at the sufferings of her expiring God ! Thus the Puritan was made up of two different men...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...
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Essays, Critical and Miscellaneous

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1846 - 782 pages
...rent, that the dead had arisen, that all nature had shuddered at the sufferings of her expiring God! Thus the Puritan was made up of two different men,...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...
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Knowles' Elocutionist: A First-class Rhetorical Reader and Recitation Book ...

James Sheridan Knowles - 1847 - 344 pages
...rent, that the dead had arisen, that all nature had shuddered at the sufferings of her expiring God ! Thus the Puritan was made up of two different men...penitence, gratitude, passion ; the other proud, calm, indexible, sagacious. He prostrated himself in the dust before his Maker; but he set his foot on the...
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The protector [O. Cromwell] a vindication. revised

Jean Henri Merle d'Aubigné - 1848 - 346 pages
...interval which separated the whole race from him on " whom their own eyes were constantly fixed.... Thus the " Puritan was made up of two different men,...proud, calm, inflexible, sagacious. He prostrated him" self in the dust before his Maker : but he set his foot on * In the Edinburgh Review, where they...
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North American First Class Reader: The Sixth Book of Tower's Series for ...

David Bates Tower - 1853 - 444 pages
...rent, that the dead had arisen, that all nature had shuddered at the sufferings of her expiring God. Thus the Puritan was made up of two different men,...proud, calm, inflexible, sagacious. He prostrated inn:-.. self in the dust before his Maker ; but he set his foot on the neck of his king. In his devotional...
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The Era and the Apostles of Self-government: An Oration Delivered Before the ...

J. S. B. Thacher - 1849 - 44 pages
...proud, * Bradford's Hist. Mass, pp. 29, 30. f Ibid p. 31. t Whitman't Hist. An. and Hon. Ar. Co. 12. calm, inflexible, sagacious. He prostrated himself...prayed with convulsions and groans and tears. He was hah' maddened by glorious or terrible illusions. He heard the lyres of angels, or the tempting whispers...
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The Biblical Repository and Classical Review, Volume 6

1850 - 778 pages
...on account of the vice which was constantly concealed beneath them. " The Puritan," says Macaulay, " was made up of two different men : the one all self-abasement, penitence, gratitude, passion ; the other projud, calm, inflexible, sagacious. He prostrated himself in the dust before his Maker ; but he set...
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Self-education

Edwin Paxton Hood - 1851 - 224 pages
...rent, that the dead had arisen, that all nature had shuddered at the sufferings of her expiring God. " Thus the Puritan was made up of two different men...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...
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