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 Baron Macaulay - 1899 - 186 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...The intensity of their feelings on one subject made 20 them tranquil on every other. One overpowering sentiment had subjected to itself pity and hatred,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1902 - 362 pages
...the hall of debate or in the field of battle. These fanatics 15 brought to civil and military affairs a coolness of judgment and an immutability of purpose...necessary effects of it. The intensity of their feelings 20 on one subject made them tranquil on every other. One overpowering sentiment had subjected to itself... | |
 | Alfred Mathews - Ohio - 1902 - 382 pages
...community. It was true, as Macaulay said, that the Puritan " 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." It was characteristic of the Connecticut... | |
 | Alfred Mathews - Ohio - 1902 - 388 pages
...community. It was true, as Macaulay said, that the Puritan " 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." It was characteristic of the Connecticut... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1903 - 312 pages
...fanatics brought to civil and military affairs a coolness of judgment and an immutability of purpose 20 which some writers have thought inconsistent with...every other. One overpowering sentiment had subjected 25 to itself pity and hatred, ambition and fear. Death had lost its terrors and pleasure its charms.... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1903 - 174 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...have thought inconsistent with their religious zeal, 20 but which were in fact the necessary effects of it. The intensity of their feelings on one subject... | |
 | Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society - Ohio - 1903 - 770 pages
...every other"; and concerning whom he further says, "The Puritans 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." Even Hume the historian though... | |
 | Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society - Ohio - 1903 - 788 pages
...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." Even Hume the historian though a scoffer at Christianity says, "They, the Puritans, alone kindled and... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1914 - 192 pages
...the ball 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...inconsistent with their religious zeal, but which were 20 in fact the necessary effects of it. The intensity of their feelings on one subject made them tranquil... | |
 | Huguenot Society of London - Huguenots - 1914 - 658 pages
...judgment and an immutability of purpose which some have thought inconsistent with their religious zeal. The intensity of their feelings on one subject made them tranquil on every other. The landmarks of Huguenot history in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries are the landmarks of persecution... | |
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