Thus the Puritan was made up of two different men, the one all self-abasement, penitence, gratitude, passion, the other proud, calm, inflexible, sagacious. He prostrated himself in the dust before his Maker ; but he set his foot on the neck of his king. Macaulay's Essay on Milton - Page 25by Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1895 - 89 pagesFull view - About this book
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