 | David Hunter Riddle - 1851 - 28 pages
...a peculiar character from the constant contemplation of superior beings and eternal interests. Not content with acknowledging, in general terms, an overruling...they habitually ascribed every event to the will of that great Being, for whose power nothing was too vast; for whose inspection nothing was too minute.... | |
 | Edward Lutwyche Parker - 1851 - 464 pages
...contemplation of superior beings and external interests." " Not content with acknowledging in general an overruling providence, they habitually ascribed every event to the will of that Great Being, for whose power nothing was too vast, for whose inspection nothing was too minute.... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1852 - 764 pages
...peculiar character from the daily contemplation of superior beings and external interests. Not con'ent with acknowledging, in general terms, an overruling...of the Great Being, for whose power nothing was too va: t, for whose inspection nothing was too minute To know him, to serve him, to enjoy him, was with... | |
 | 1852 - 780 pages
...peculiar character from the daily contemplation of superior beings and external interests. Not con'ent s, in a great measure, independent of those circumstances...with that inferior species of poetry which succeeds vas t, for whose inspection nothing was too minute To know him, to serve him, to enjoy him, was with... | |
 | 1853 - 706 pages
...present reality, — an entity that presented as tangible ideas to their minds as London or Leyden. " Not content with acknowledging in general terms an overruling...vast, for whose inspection nothing was too minute." The long contest between the Good and Kvil principles, was with them no myth, but an actual strife,... | |
 | Allen Hayden Weld - 1853 - 120 pages
...derived * peculiar character from the daily contemplation of superior beings and eternal interests. Not content with acknowledging, in general terms, an overruling...vast, for whose inspection nothing was too minute. 3\> know1 him, to serve1 him, to enjoy him,1 was with them the great end of existence. 2. They rejected... | |
 | 1853 - 708 pages
...present reality, — an entity that presented as tangible ideas to their minds as London or Leyden. " Not content with acknowledging in general terms an overruling...Great Being, for whose power nothing was too vast, for 250 251 whose inspection nothing was too minute." The long contest between the Good and Evil principles,... | |
 | 1853 - 710 pages
...reality, — an entity that presented as tangible ideas to their minds as London or Leyden. ': Not content with acknowledging in general terms an overruling...event to the will of the Great Being, for whose power jiothing was too vast, for 250 Curiosities of Puritan History. 261 whose inspection nothing was too... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1853 - 800 pages
...head and the Fool's head, and fix our choice on the plain leaden chest which conceals the treasure. him, to enjoy him, was with them the great end of...rejected with contempt the ceremonious homage which other sects substituted for the pure worship of the soul. Instead of catching occasional glimpses of the... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - 1853 - 492 pages
...acknowledging, in general terms, an over-ruling Providence, they habitually ascribed every event to the Great Being, for whose power nothing was too vast,...inspection nothing was too minute. To know him, to servo him, to enjoy him, was, with them, the great end of existence. 2. They rejected, with contempt,... | |
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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... 
