Thus the 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. Macaulay's Essay on Milton - Page 63by Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1897 - 78 pagesFull view - About this book
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