 | Robert Baird - 1844 - 360 pages
...derived a peculiar character from the daily contemplation of 'superior' beings and eternal interests. Not content with acknowledging in general terms an overruling...end of existence. They rejected with contempt the ceremomous homage which other sects substituted for the pure worship of the soul. Instead of catching... | |
 | Robert Baird - 1844 - 552 pages
...interests. Not content with acknowledging in general terms an overruliug Providence, they hahitually ascribed every event to the will of the Great Being...end of existence. They rejected with contempt the ceremontous homage which other sects substituted for the pure worship of the soul. Instead of catching... | |
 | Robert Baird - 1844 - 550 pages
...derived a peculiar character from the daily contemplation of superior beings and eternal interests. Not content with acknowledging in general terms an overruling...too minute. To know Him, to serve Him, to enjoy Him, wat with them the great end of existence. The> rejected with contempt the ceremoniou., homage which... | |
 | John Goldsbury, William Russell - 1844 - 440 pages
...and eternal interests. Not content with acknowledging, in general terms, an overruling Pr6vidence, 5 they habitually ascribed every event to the will of...vast, for whose inspection nothing was too minute. To kn6w Him, to serve Him, to enjoy Him, was with them the great end of existence. They rejected with... | |
 | John Goldsbury, William Russell - 1844 - 444 pages
...Providence, 6 they habitually ascribed 6very event to the will of the Great Being, for whose p6wer nothing was too vast, for whose inspection nothing...to serve Him, to enjoy Him, was with them the great dnd of existence. They rejected with contempt the ceremonious homage which other sects substituted... | |
 | John Goldsbury, William Russell - 1844 - 444 pages
...and eternal interests. Not content with acknowledging, in general terms, an overruling Providence, 6 they habitually -ascribed every event to the will...Great Being, for whose power nothing was too vast, fw whose inspection nothing was too minute. To kn6w Him, to serve Him, to enjoy Him, was with them... | |
 | William Draper Swan - 1845 - 482 pages
...derived a peculiar character from the daily contemplation of superior beings and eternal interests. Not content with acknowledging, in general terms, an overruling...rejected with contempt the ceremonious homage which other sects substituted for the pure worship of the soul. Instead of catching occasional glimpses of the... | |
 | Jesse Olney - 1845 - 348 pages
...provisions, and suitable dwellings, and during the winter one haif of their number perished. cribed every event to the will of the Great Being, for whose...enjoy him, was with them the great end of existence. 2. They rejected with contempt the ceremonious homage which other sects substituted for the pure worship... | |
 | Nathan Marcus Adler - 1845 - 696 pages
...a peculiar character from the daily contemplation of supernatural beings and eternal interests. Not content with acknowledging, in general terms, an overruling...nothing was too vast, for whose inspection nothing too minute. To know him, to serve him, to enjoy him, was with them the great end of their existence... | |
 | Thomas Babington baron Macaulay - 1846 - 222 pages
...derived a peculiar character from the daily contemplation of superior beings and eternal interests. Not content with acknowledging, in general terms, an overruling...rejected with contempt the ceremonious homage which other sects substituted for the pure worship of the soul. Instead of catching occasional glimpses of the... | |
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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... 
