 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 - Page 16by Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1856 - 744 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Jesse Olney - 1838 - 346 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Charles Hodge, Lyman Hotchkiss Atwater - 1840 - 644 pages
...fact the necessary effect 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.... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1840 - 466 pages
...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.... | |
 | J. Fletcher - 1842 - 478 pages
...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...things of this world. Enthusiasm had made them stoics, and cleared their minds of every vulgar passion and prejudice, and raised them above the influence... | |
 | Thomas Cogswell Upham - 1843 - 428 pages
...and degradation. All these things imparted additional fixedness and intensity to their purposes. " Death had lost its terrors, and pleasure its charms....prejudice, and raised them above the influence of danger and corruption. It sometimes might lead them to pursue unwise ends, but never to choose unwise means.... | |
 | John Goldsbury, William Russell - 1844 - 440 pages
...and degradation. 15 All these things imparted additional fixedness and intensity to their purposes. " Death had lost its terrors, and pleasure, its charms....things of this world. Enthusiasm had made them Stoics, 20 had cleared their minds from every vulgar passion and prejudice, and raised them above the influence... | |
 | John Goldsbury, William Russell - 1844 - 444 pages
...pleasure its 35 charms. They had their smiles and their tears, their raptures and their sorrows, but n6t for the things of this world. Enthusiasm had made...prejudice, and raised them above the influence of danger and of cor40 riiption. * When an emphatic series causes, thus, a succession of falling inflections,... | |
 | John Stoughton - 1844 - 266 pages
...overpowering sentiment had subjected to itself pity and hatred, ambition and fear. Death had lost its terror, and pleasure its charms. They had their smiles and...their sorrows, but not for the things of this world. Enthusiam had made them stoics, and cleared their minds from vulgar passion and prejudice, and raised... | |
 | John Goldsbury, William Russell - 1844 - 444 pages
...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...fear. Death had lost its terrors, and pleasure its 35 charms. They had their smiles and their tears, their raptures and their sorrows, but n6t for the... | |
 | William Draper Swan - 1845 - 494 pages
...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.... | |
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