| 1832 - 852 oldal
...I shall not stint you with a meagre extract. — " 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... | |
| 1825 - 582 oldal
...were men »hose minds had derived a pi-culiar character from the d.-iily contemplation of snperior beings, and eternal interests. Not content with acknowledging,...Great Being, for whose power nothing was too vast. for u hose inspection nothing was too miuutc. To know him, to serve him, to enjoy him, was with them the... | |
| 1825 - 570 oldal
...Puritans. [Extracted from the Edinburgh. Rtvieic, No. 84.] THE Puritans were men whose minds had derived a peculiar character from the daily contemplation of...Not content with acknowledging, in general terms, an over-rnlinc Providence, they habitually ascribed every event to the will of the Great Being, for whose... | |
| 1826 - 596 oldal
...their opinions without error. The reviewers say — "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... | |
| John White (A.M.) - 1826 - 340 oldal
...• I.' -I. • ,. . ,,. ', i, i••'«, li,rt'o THE Puritans were men whose minds had derived i A peculiar character from the daily contemplation of...with acknowledging, in general terms, an over-ruling Pfovidence, they habitually ascribed every event to the will of the Great Being for whose power nothing... | |
| Ant The - 1827 - 366 oldal
...imagination. But it was not so with mine. THE PURITANS. 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... | |
| Ebenezer Porter - 1828 - 418 oldal
...desolate. 108. Character of the Puritans. Beecher. The Puritans were men whose minds had derived a peculiar character from the daily contemplation of...with acknowledging, in general terms, an overruling Prov5 idence, they habitually ascribed every event to the will of the Great Being, for whose power... | |
| Ebenezer Porter - 1828 - 452 oldal
...desolate. Beecher. 108. Character of the Puritans. 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 Prov5 idence, they habitually ascribed... | |
| Samuel Phillips Newman - 1829 - 270 oldal
..." The Puritans were men whose minds had derived a peculiar character from the daily contemplations of superior beings and eternal interests. Not content...vast, for whose inspection nothing was too minute. To know him, was with them the great end of existence. They rejected with contempt the ceremonious homage... | |
| Edward Robinson - 1848 - 590 oldal
...language of Britain's most eloquent modern essayist : v " The Puritans were men whose minds had derived a peculiar character from the daily contemplation of...the will of the Great Being, for whose power nothing is too vast, for whose inspection nothing is too minute. To know Him, to serve Him, to enjoy Him, was... | |
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