 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.  Essays, Critical and Miscellaneous - Seite 16von Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1856 - 744 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | William Draper Swan - 1845 - 482 Seiten
...One overpowering sentiment had subjected to itself pity and hatred, ambition and fear. Death had lest its terrors, and pleasure its charms. They had their...prejudice, and raised them above the influence of danger and of corruption. It sometimes might lead them to pursue unwise ends, but never to choose unwise means.... | |
 | James Sheridan Knowles - 1847 - 344 Seiten
...one subject made them tranquil on every other. One overpowering sentiment had subjected to itsfilf pity and hatred, ambition and fear. Death had lost...prejudice, and raised them above the influence of danger and of corruption. It sometimes might lead them to pursue unwise ends, but never to choose unwise means.... | |
 | David Bates Tower - 1853 - 444 Seiten
...fact, the necessary effects of it The intensity of their feelings on one subject made them tranquil on every other. One overpowering sentiment had subjected...prejudice, and raised them above the influence of danger and of corruption. It sometimes might lead them to pursue unwise ends, but never to choose unwise means.... | |
 | Allen Hayden Weld - 1848 - 120 Seiten
...fact, the necessary effects of it 10. The intensity of their feelings on one subject made them tranquil on every other. One overpowering sentiment had subjected...Death had lost its terrors, and pleasure its charms. 11. They had their smiles and their tears, their raptures and their sorrows, but not for the things... | |
 | 1849 - 606 Seiten
...debate, or in the field of battle." " The intensity of their feelings on one subject, made them tranquil on every other. One overpowering sentiment had subjected...Death had lost its terrors, and pleasure its charms." As were the Puritans of Old England, BO in a great degree were the Chief Fathers of New England. The... | |
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - 1851 - 224 Seiten
...fact, the necessary effects of it. The intensity of their feelings on one subject made them tranquil on every other. One overpowering sentiment had subjected...prejudice, and raised them above the influence of danger and of corruption. It sometimes might lead them to pursue unwise ends, but never to choose unwise means.... | |
 | Edward Lutwyche Parker - 1851 - 464 Seiten
...the necessary effect of their zeal. The intensity of their feelings on one subject made them tranquil on every other. One overpowering sentiment had subjected...their sorrows, but not for the things of this world. They had their minds cleared of every vulgar passion and prejudice, and raised above the influence... | |
 | 1852 - 780 Seiten
...fact the necessary effects of it. The intensity of their feelings on one subject made them ttanquil rth. This species of misrepresentation abounds in...his story like a slovenly witness, who, heated by and of corruption. It sometimes might lead them lo pursue unwise ends, but never to choose unwise means.... | |
 | 1853 - 334 Seiten
...fact, the necessary effects of it. The intensity of their feelings on one subject made them tranquil on every other. One overpowering sentiment had subjected...prejudice, and raised them above the influence of danger and of corruption. It sometimes might lead them to pursue unwise ends, but never to choose unwise means.... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - 1853 - 492 Seiten
...subject, had made them tranquil on every other. One overpowering sentiment had subjected to itself, pity, hatred, ambitio'n, and fear. Death had lost its terrors...prejudice, and raised them above the influence of danger and of corruption. It sometimes might lead them to pursue •unwise ends, but never to choose unwise... | |
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