 Ages. ; this is the element which stamps them as Heroic, and has rendered their works great, manlike, fruitful to all generations. It is by far the memorablest achievement of our Species ; without that element, in some form or other, nothing of Heroic...  Complete Works of Thomas Carlyle - Page 51by Thomas Carlyle - 1901Full view - About this book
 | 1847 - 602 pages
...— properly the one epoch ' — when conversion takes place. He represents him ' a Christian man, not on Sundays only, but on all days, in all places, and in all cases.' Did any doubt remain as to this fact, Merle D'Aubigne has placed it beyond contradiction. He thinks... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Nathaniel Parker Willis - Gift books - 1848 - 312 pages
...earnest, thorough piety. From the period of his first evangelical experience, he was " a Christian man, not on Sundays only, but on all days, in all places, and in all circumstances." This is the key note of his character. And herein do we find the secret of his greatness.... | |
 | 1846 - 702 pages
...all, it is to be hoped. " Oliver was henceforth a Christian man ; believed in God, not on Sun" days only, but on all days, in all places, and in all cases." In 1628, Cromwell was elected MP for Huntingdon, in Charles the First's third parliament, after the... | |
 | 1848 - 592 pages
...one epoch ; the turningpoint which guides upwards, or downwards, him and his activity for evermore. had borne sacrifices to their altars long before the...penetrated to Greece and had furnished its mytholog Oliver naturally consorted henceforth with the Puritan clergy in preference to the other kind ; zealously... | |
 | 1847 - 592 pages
...a man: roperly the one epoch ..... .He was henceorth a Christian man," continues his biographer, ' not on Sundays only, but on all days, in all places, and in all cases." " Cromwell's first appearance in the House of Commons has often been described: — " One day a member... | |
 | Jean Henri Merle d'Aubigné - 1847 - 298 pages
...epoch for a man: properly the one epoch He was henceforth a Christian man," continues his biographer, " not on Sundays only, but on all days, in all places, and in all cases."* Cromwell now zealously attended the Puritan ministry, and chose his friends from among the gentry and... | |
 | Jean Henri Merle d'Aubigné - Great Britain - 1847 - 396 pages
...properly the 'one epoch He was henceforth a Christian " man," continues his biographer, " not on Sun" days only, but on all days, in all places, and in " all cases."* Cromwell now zealously attended the Puritan ministry, and chose his friends from among the gentry and... | |
 | Jean Henri Merle d'Aubigné - 1848 - 346 pages
...for a man : properly the one " epoch He was henceforth a Christian man," continues his biographer, " not on Sundays only, but on all " days, in all places, and in all cases."* Cromwell now zealously attended the Puritan ministry, and chose his friends from among the gentry and... | |
 | Sir Daniel Wilson - Great Britain - 1848 - 334 pages
...him and his activity for evermore. ' He was henceforth a Christian man,' continues his biographer, ' not on Sundays only, but on all days, in all places, and in all cases.' " Cromwell now zealously attended the Puritan ministry, and chose his friends from among the gentry... | |
 | Robert Vaughan - Christianity - 1849 - 338 pages
...our species ; without that element in some form or other, nothing of heroic has ever been among us. ' Oliver was henceforth a Christian man ; believed in...but on all days, in all places, and in all cases.' — Vol. i. pp. 75—76. Strangely said, but truly. Our sorrow is the measure of our joy. To know little... | |
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