 The intensity of their feelings on one subject made them tranquil on every other. One overpowering sentiment had subjected to itself pity and hatred, ambition and fear. Death had lost its terrors and pleasure its charms.  Essays, Critical and Miscellaneous - Pagina 16door Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1858 - 744 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | William Holmes McGuffey - 1853 - 492 pagina’s
...subject, had made them tranquil on every other. One overpowering sentiment had subjected to itself, pity, hatred, ambitio'n, and fear. Death had lost its terrors...Enthusiasm had made them stoics, had cleared their minds from every vulgar passion and prejudice, and raised them above the influence of danger and of... | |
 | David Bates Tower, Cornelius Walker - 1854 - 440 pagina’s
...religious zeal, but which were, in fact, the necessary eflects of it. The intensity of their feelings on one subject made them tranquil on every other....Enthusiasm had made them stoics, had cleared their minds from every vulgar passion and prejudice, and raised them above the- influence of danger and of... | |
 | David Bates Tower, Cornelius Walker - 1855 - 442 pagina’s
...religious zeal, but which were, in fact, the necessary effects of it. The intensity of their feelings on one subject made them tranquil on every other....and their tears, their raptures and their sorrows, hut not for the things of this world. Enthusiasm had made them stoics, had cleared their minds from... | |
 | Frederick Saunders, Thomas Bangs Thorpe - 1855 - 436 pagina’s
...fact the necessary effects of it. The intensity of their feelings on one subject made them tranquil in every other. One overpowering sentiment had subjected...tears, their raptures and their sorrows, but not for things of this world. Enthusiasm had made them Stoics, had cleared their minds from every vulgar passion... | |
 | 1855 - 616 pagina’s
...every other. One overpowering sentiment had subjected to itself pity and hatred, ambition and tear. Death had lost its terrors, and pleasure its charms....Enthusiasm had made them stoics, had cleared their minds from every vulgar passion and prejudice, and raised them above the influence of danger and of... | |
 | Edward Thomson - 1856 - 426 pagina’s
...puttest thy nest in a rock. Macaulay, speaking of the Puritans, says, "The intensity of their feelings on one subject made them tranquil on every other....Enthusiasm had made them Stoics; had cleared their minds from every vulgar passion and prejudice, and raised them above the influence of danger and of... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1856 - 770 pagina’s
...fact the necessary effects of it. The intensity of their feelings on one subject made them tian<]uil on every other. One overpowering sentiment had subjected...Enthusiasm had made them stoics, had cleared their minds from every vulgar passion and prejudice, and raised them above the influence of danger aad of... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1856 - 752 pagina’s
...religious zeal, but which were in fact the necessary effects of it. The intensity of their feelings on one subject made them tranquil on every other....had their smiles, and their tears, their raptures and'their sorrows, but not for the things of this world. Enthusiasm had made them stoics, had cleared... | |
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - 1858 - 276 pagina’s
...religious zeal, but which were, in fact, the necessary effects of it. The intensity of their feelings on one subject made them tranquil on every other....Enthusiasm had made them Stoics, had cleared their minds from every vulgar passion and prejudice, and raised them above the influence of danger and of... | |
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - 1858 - 272 pagina’s
...religious zeal, but which were, in fact, the necessary effects of it. The intensity of their feelings on one subject made them tranquil on every other....their raptures and their sorrows, but not for the 1 things of this world. Enthusiasm had made them Stoics, had cleared their minds from every vulgar... | |
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