 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 ... - Sida 32efter Frederick Saunders, Thomas Bangs Thorpe - 1855 - 404 sidorObegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | 1832 - 852 sidor
...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...screaming from dreams of everlasting fire. Like Vane, he then with the see] year. Like I the bitterness had hid his •when he took or girt on his tempestuous... | |
 | 1825 - 570 sidor
...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...thought himself intrusted with the sceptre; of the niilleiininl year. Like Fleetwood, he cried, in the bitterness of his soul, that God had hidden his... | |
 | 1825 - 582 sidor
...dust before his Maker: but he set bis foot on the neck of his king. In bis devotional retirement, he prayed with convulsions, and groans, and tears. He...fire. Like Vane, he thought himself intrusted with Ibe sceptre of the millennial year. Like Fleetwood, ho cried, in the bitterness of his soul, that God... | |
 | 1826 - 596 sidor
...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 Fleetwood, he cried in the bitterness of his... | |
 | Ant The - 1827 - 366 sidor
...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...thought himself intrusted with the sceptre of the millenial year. ' Like Fleetwood, he cried in the bitterness of his soul that God had hid his face... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - 1828 - 452 sidor
...before his Maker : but he set GO his foot on the neck of the king. In his devotional retirement, he prayed with convulsions, and groans, and tears. He...tempting whispers of fiends. He caught a gleam of the beatifick fire. Like Vane, he thought himself intrusted with the sceptre of the millennial year. Like... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1830 - 592 sidor
...frenzies, is not denied. The more exalted Puritan of the two which formed the one, is described. " He heard the lyres of angels or the tempting whispers...or woke screaming from dreams of everlasting fire !" The fairy tales of the Countess D'Anois, that charming writer of innocent inventions, do not equal... | |
 | James Hedderwick - 1833 - 232 sidor
...his devotional retirement, he prayed with convulsions, and groans, and tears. He was half-maddened by glorious or terrible illusions. He heard the lyres...tempting whispers of fiends. He caught a gleam of beatific vision, or woke screaming from dreams of everlasting fire. Like Vane, he thought himself entrusted... | |
 | 1835 - 932 sidor
...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...the millennial year. Like Fleetwood, he cried in the bilterness of his soul that God had hid his face from him. But when he look his seat in the council,... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - 1835 - 420 sidor
...before his Maker : but he set 60 his foot on the neck of the king. In his devotional retirement, he prayed with convulsions, and groans, and tears. He...whispers of fiends. He caught a gleam of the beatific (55 vision, or woke screaming from dreams of everlasting fire. Like Vane, he thought himself intrusted... | |
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