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... Macaulay's Essay on Milton - Page 41by Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1899 - 114 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1825 - 570 pages
...war, these tempestuous workings of the soul had lelt no perceptible trace behind them. People who saw nothing of the godly but their uncouth visages, and...and military affairs, a coolness of judgment, and au immutability of purpose, which some writers have thought inconsistent with their religious zeal... | |
| Baptists - 1825 - 582 pages
...war, these tempestuous workings of the soul had Ictt no perceptible trace behind them. People who saw nothing of the godly but their uncouth visages, and heard nothing from Kinn but their groans and tbeir whining hymns, might laugh at them ; but those had litllc reason to... | |
| Presbyterianism - 1826 - 596 pages
...war, these tempestuous workings of the soul had left no perceptible trace behind them. People who saw nothing of the godly but their uncouth visages, and...coolness of judgment, and an immutability of purpose wnich some writers have thought inconsistent with their religious zeal, but which were in fact the... | |
| Ant The - 1827 - 366 pages
...war, these tempestuous workings of the soul had left no perceptible trace behind them. People who saw nothing of the godly but their uncouth visages, and heard nothing from them but their groans and thenwhining hymns, might laugh at them. But those had little reason to laugh who encountered them in... | |
| Ebenezer Porter - Elocution - 1828 - 418 pages
...reason to laugh who encountered them in the hall of debate, or in the field of battle. The Puritans brought to civil and military affairs, a coolness...some writers have thought inconsistent with their 80 religious zeal, but which were in fact the necessary effects of it. The intensity of their feelings... | |
| Ebenezer Porter - Elocution - 1828 - 452 pages
...war, these tempestuous workings of the soul had left no perceptible trace behind them. People who saw nothing of the godly but their uncouth visages, and...heard nothing from them but their groans and their hymns, might laugh at them. But those had 75 little reason to laugh who encountered them in the hall... | |
| Ebenezer Porter - Elocution - 1828 - 414 pages
...and heard nothing from them but their groans and their hymns, might laugh at them. But those had 75 little reason to laugh who encountered them in the hall of debate, or in the field of battle. The Puritans brought to civil and military affairs, a coolness of judgment, and an immutability of... | |
| Ethan Smith - Bible - 1833 - 422 pages
...hall of debate, or on the field of battle. These fanatics, — falsely so called, — brought to their civil and military affairs, a coolness of judgment, and an immutability of purpose, which some people thought inconsistent with religion, but which in fact were the fruit of it. The intensity of... | |
| Literature - 1836 - 332 pages
...workings of the soul had left no perceptible trace behind them. People who saw nothing of the Puritans but their uncouth visages, and heard nothing from them but their groans and their hymns, might laugh at them. But those had little reason to laugh, who encountered them in the hall... | |
| Jesse Olney - Readers - 1838 - 346 pages
...war, these tempcstous workings of the soul had left no perceptible trace behind them. People who saw nothing of the godly but their uncouth visages, and...heard nothing from them but their groans and their hymns, might laugh at them. But those had little reason to laugh who encountered them in the hall of... | |
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