 | American literature - 1853 - 710 pages
...the reader as tending to invalidate their testimony. "The Puritans were men whose minds bad derived a peculiar character from the daily contemplation of Superior beings and eternal interests. * « » Instead of catching occasional glimpses of the Deity through an obscuring veil, they »spired... | |
 | David Bates Tower, Cornelius Walker - Elocution - 1854 - 440 pages
...every nation on the face of the earth, were no vulgar fanatics. They were men whose minds had derived a peculiar character from the daily contemplation of...vast, for whose inspection nothing was too minute. To know him, to serve him, to enjoy him, was with thein the great end of existence. Instead of catching... | |
 | Popular educator - 1854 - 922 pages
...of superior being»' and •йс'гпа! interests. Not content with acknowledging, in general erms, an overruling Providence, they habitually ascribed...event to the will of the Great Being, for whose power lothing was too vast, for whose inspection nothing was too minute, fo know Him, to sèryp Him, \o epj(iy... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1854 - 796 pages
...derived a peculiar character from the dally contemplation of superior beings and eternal Interest*. Not content with acknowledging, In general terms, an overruling Providence, they habitually necribfd every event to the will of the Great Being, for whoae power nothing was too vast, for whose... | |
 | Newburyport (Mass.) - Newburyport (Mass.) - 1854 - 128 pages
...When in burning and glowing rhetoric he says of them, that " they were men whose minds had derived a peculiar character from the daily contemplation of superior beings and eternal interests," he no more surely touches the key note of their triumph over despotism at home, than he traces out... | |
 | Frederick Saunders, Thomas Bangs Thorpe - America - 1855 - 436 pages
...and virtue, the pioneer-missionaries of the cross. "The Puritans were men whose minds had derived a peculiar character from the daily contemplation of...vast, for whose inspection nothing was too minute. To know him, to serve him, to enjoy him, was with them the great end of existence. They rejected with... | |
 | 1855 - 616 pages
...MORRIS. THE PURITANS SKETCHED BY AN IMPARTIAL HAND. THE Puritans were men whose minds had derived a peculiar character from the daily contemplation of...vast, for whose inspection nothing was too minute. To know him, to serve him, to enjoy him, was with them the great end of their existence. They rejected... | |
 | Thomas Bangs Thorpe - History - 1855 - 412 pages
...and virtue, the pioneer-missionaries of the cross. "The Puritans were men whose minds had derived a peculiar character from the daily contemplation of...Great Being, for whose power nothing was too vast, for whoso inspection nothing was too minute. To know him, to serve him, to enjoy him, was with them the... | |
 | Religion - 1855 - 424 pages
...minds had derived a peculiar character from the daily contemplation of superior beings and external interests. Not content with acknowledging, in general terms, an overruling Providence, they habitually aseribed every event to the will of the Great Being, for whose power nothing was too vast, for whose... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English essays - 1856 - 770 pages
...peculiar character from the daily contemplation of superior beings and external interests. Not con'ent with acknowledging, in general terms, an overruling...of the Great Being, for whose power nothing was too va; l, for whose inspection nothing was too minute To know him, to serve him, to enjoy him, was with... | |
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The Puritans were men whose minds had derived a peculiar character from the daily contemplation of superior beings and eternal interests. Not content with acknowledging, in general terms, an overruling Providence, they habitually ascribed every event... 
