 Such we believe to have been the character of the Puritans. We perceive the absurdity of their manners. We dislike the sullen gloom of their domestic habits. We acknowledge that the tone of their minds was often injured by straining after things too high...  Essays on Milton and Addison - Page 81by Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1902 - 315 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1825 - 570 pages
...tone of their minds was often injured by straining after things too high for mortal reach : and we know that, in spite of their hatred of Popery, they...crusades, their Dunstans and their De Montforts, their Dominios and their Escobars. Yet, when all circumstances are taken into consideration, we do not hesitate... | |
 | Baptists - 1825 - 582 pages
...often injured by straining after things too high for mortal reach : and we know that, in spite of tbeir hatred of Popery, they too often fell into the worst vices of that had system, intolerance and extravagant austerity, — that they had their anchorites and their crusades,... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - Elocution - 1828 - 452 pages
...popery, they too often fell into the vices of that bad system, in105 tolerance and extravagant austerity. Yet, when all circumstances are taken into consideration,...to pronounce them a brave, a wise, an honest, and an useful body. Edin. Review. 109. An enlightened ministry. Christianity now needs dispensers, who... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - Elocution - 1828 - 414 pages
...tone of their minds was often injured by straining after things too high for mortal reach : And we know that, in spite of their hatred of popery, they too often fell into the vices of that bad system, initate to pronounce them a brave, a wise, an honest, and an useful body.... | |
 | 1835 - 932 pages
...tone of their minds was often injured by straining after things loo high for mortal reach : -and we know that, in spite of their hatred of popery, they...bad system, intolerance and extravagant austerity, — thai they had their anchorites and their crusades, their Dunstans and their Du Montforls, their... | |
 | Literature - 1836 - 332 pages
...tone of their minds was often injured by straining after things too high for mortal reach ; and we know that, in spite of their hatred of popery, they too often fell into the vices of that bad system, intolerance and extravagant austerity. Yet, when all circumstances arc taken... | |
 | British and foreign young men's society - 1837 - 556 pages
...tone of their minds was often injured, by straining after things too high for mortal reach : and we know that, in spite of their hatred of popery, they...their De Montforts, their Dominies and their Escobars. Yet,when all circumstances are taken into consideration, we do not hesitate to pronounce them a brave,... | |
 | Jesse Olney - Readers - 1838 - 346 pages
...tone of (.heir minds was often injured by straining after things too high for mortal reach : And we know that, in spite of their hatred of popery, they too often * See St. Matthew, chap- xxvii. 45 — 55. fell into the vices of that bad system, intolerance and... | |
 | Charles Hodge, Lyman Hotchkiss Atwater - Bible - 1840 - 644 pages
...the tone of their minds was often injured by straining after things too high for mortal reach. And we know that, in spite of their hatred of Popery, they...to pronounce them a brave, a wise, an honest and a useful body. " The Puritans espoused the cause of civil liberty, mainly because it was the cause of... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1840 - 466 pages
...the tone of their minds was often injured by straining after things too high for mortal reach. And we know that, in spite of their hatred of Popery, they...to pronounce them a brave, a wise, an honest, and a useful body. The Puritans espoused the cause of civil liberty, mainly because it was the cause of religion.... | |
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