 People who saw nothing of the godly but their uncouth visages, and heard nothing from them but their groans and their whining hymns, might laugh at them. But those had little reason to laugh who encountered them in the hall of debate or in the field of...  The baptist Magazine - Sida 5131825Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | Phineas Garrett - 1879 - 784 sidor
...seat in the council, or girt on his sword for war, these tempestuous workings of the soul had left no perceptible trace behind them. People who saw nothing...them in the hall of debate or in the field of battle. THE EAGLE.— ALFRED TENNYSON. He clasps the crag with hookSd hands, Close to the sun in lonely lands,... | |
 | American Bar Association - 1905 - 980 sidor
...qualities of the Roman are reproduced, with rare fidelity, in the Puritan. In the words of Macaulay : "People who saw nothing of the godly but their uncouth...little reason to laugh who encountered them in the halls of debate or in the field of battle. These fanatics brought to civil and military affairs a coolness... | |
 | New reader - 1879 - 392 sidor
...palaces were houses not made with hands ; their diadems crowns of glory which should never fade away. These fanatics brought to civil and military affairs a coolness of judgment and an immutability15 of purpose which some writers have thought inconsistent with their religious zeal,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1880 - 640 sidor
...seat in the council, or girt on his sword for war, these tempestuous workings of the soul had left no perceptible trace behind them. People who saw nothing...civil and military affairs a coolness of judgment and an immutability of purpose which some writers have thought inconsistent with their religious zeal,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1880 - 844 sidor
...seat in the council, or girt on his sword for war, these tempestuous workings of the soul had left no perceptible trace behind them. People who saw nothing...civil and military affairs a coolness of judgment and an immutability of purpose which some writers have thought inconsistent with their religious zeal,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1880 - 640 sidor
...seat in the council, or girt on his sword for war, these tempestuous workings of the soul had left no perceptible trace behind them. People who saw nothing...battle. These fanatics brought to civil and military aifairs a coolness of judgment and an immutability of purpose which some writers have thought inconsistent... | |
 | William Swinton - 1880 - 694 sidor
...in the council, or girt on his sword for war, these tempestuous work- 100 ings of the soul had left no perceptible trace behind them. People who saw nothing...encountered them in the hall of debate or in the field 105 of battle. These fanatics brought to civil and military affairs a coolness of judgment and an immutability... | |
 | Warren Robert Cochrane - 1880 - 940 sidor
...creation, and priests by the interposition of a mightier hand. Those had little reason to laugh at them who encountered them in the hall of debate or in the field of battle." These inimitable lines from the unprejudiced historian show what sort of stuff the early settlers of New... | |
 | 1881 - 578 sidor
...seat in the council, or girt on his sword for war, these tempestuous workings of the soul had left an immutability of purpose which some writers have thought inconsistent with their religious zeal,... | |
 | Jacob W. Shoemaker - 1881 - 220 sidor
...seat in the council, or girt on his sword for war, these tempestuous workings of the soul had left no perceptible trace behind them. People who saw nothing...those had little reason to laugh who encountered them iii the hall of debate or in the field of battle. FB MACAULAY. THE LAST HYMN. THE Sabbath-day was ending,... | |
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