 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.  Miscellaneous Works of Lord Macaulay - Page 57by Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1880Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay - English literature - 1883 - 1258 pages
...the hall of debate or in the field of battle. These fanatics brought to civil and military affairs a coolness of judgment and an immutability of- purpose...their feelings on one subject made them tranquil on everj other. One overpowering sentiment had subjected to itself pity and hatred, ambition and fear.... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay (baron [essays], Milton.), Alexander Mackie - English language - 1884 - 216 pages
...field of battle. These fanatics brought to civil and military affairs, a coolness of judg- 15 ment, and an immutability of purpose, which some writers...made them tranquil on every other. One overpowering 20 sentiment had subjected to itself pity and hatred, ambition and fear. Death had lost its terrors,... | |
 | John Swett - Elocution - 1884 - 412 pages
...hall of debate | or in the field of battle. These fandtics \ brought to civil and military affairs | a coolness of judgment \ and an immutability of purpose...effects of it. The intensity of their feelings on 6ne subject | made them tranquil \ on every bther. One overp6wering sentiment \ had subjected to itself... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English essays - 1885 - 918 pages
...cooluess of judg-l ment and an immutahility of pur1xisel which some writers have thought in consistent everj other. One overpowering sentiment had subjected to itself pity and hatred, amhition and fear.... | |
 | William Swinton - American literature - 1886 - 690 pages
...hall of debate or in the field 103 of battle. These fanatics brought to civil and military affairs a coolness of judgment and an immutability of purpose...feelings on one subject made them tranquil on every no other. One overpowering sentiment had subjected to itself pity and hatred, ambition and fear. Death... | |
 | Frank McAlpine - American prose literature - 1886 - 456 pages
...the hall of debate or on the field of battle. These fanatics brought to civil and military affairs a coolness of judgment and an immutability of purpose...religious zeal, but which were, in fact, the necessary effect of it. The intensity of their feeling on one sutyect made them tranquil on the other. One overpowering... | |
 | Alexander Johnston - Connecticut - 1887 - 452 pages
...force of the Puritan of 1630-60, who, as Macaulay puts it, " brought to civil and military affairs a coolness of judgment and an immutability of purpose...which some writers have thought inconsistent with religious zeal, but which were in fact the necessary effects of it." Nowhere is this combination of... | |
 | Robert Cochrane - Authors, English - 1887 - 572 pages
...in he field of battle. These fanatics brought to ivil and military affairs a coolness of judgment nd , they were deeply read in reigious zeal, but which were, in fact, the necesary effects of it. The intensity of their feelings... | |
 | Hamilton Andrews Hill - Boston (Mass.) - 1889 - 718 pages
...struggle between the Puritans and Charles I., says that they " brought to civil and military affairs a coolness of judgment and an immutability of purpose...on one subject made them tranquil on every other." We have a striking illustration of this blending of earnest devotion to the cause of civil liberty,... | |
 | Philomathic Society - 1889 - 164 pages
...hall of debate—or in " the field of battle. These fanatics brought to civil and military " affairs a coolness of judgment and an immutability of purpose...intensity of "their feelings on one subject made them tranquil—on every other. " One overpowering sentiment had subjected to itself pity and hatred—... | |
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