 | John Richard Green - Great Britain - 1878 - 622 pages
...that remain to us the name of God, the thought of God, stir him to outbursts of ecstatic adoration. But he was no mere saint. He felt none of that scorn...hermitage. Vexed as he was by sickness and constant CHAP. III. pain, his temper took no touch of asceticism. His rare Wcssex geniality, a peculiar elasticity... | |
 | John Richard Green - Great Britain - 1882 - 486 pages
...that remain to us the name of God, the thought of God, stir him to outbursts of ecstatic adoration. But he was no mere saint. He felt none of that scorn...a peculiar elasticity and mobility of nature, gave color and charm to his life. A sunny frankness and openness of spirit breathes in the pleasant chat... | |
 | Philip Schaff - Church history - 1885 - 826 pages
...which commonly goes with an intensity of religious feeling or of moral purpose, he showed no trace. He felt none of that scorn of the world about him...hermitage. Vexed as he was by sickness and constant pain, not only did his temper take no touch of asceticism, but a rare geniality, a peculiar elasticity and... | |
 | John Richard Green - Great Britain - 1883 - 700 pages
...which commonly goes with an intensity of religious fi-ding or of moral purpose he showed not a trace. He felt none of that scorn of the world about him...hermitage. Vexed as he was by sickness and constant pain, not only did his temper take no touch of asceticism, but a rare geniality, a peculiar elasticity arid... | |
 | John Richard Green - Great Britain - 1884 - 672 pages
...which commonly goes with an intensity of religious feeling or of moral purpose, he showed not a trace. He felt none of that scorn of the world about him...hermitage. Vexed as he was by sickness and constant pair*, not only did his temper take no touch of asceticism, but a rare geniality, a peculiar elasticity... | |
 | 1884 - 616 pages
...God, stir him to outbursts of ecstatic adoration. Vexed as he was by sickness and constant pain, a rare geniality, a peculiar elasticity and mobility of nature gave colour and charm to his life. Nor could danger or disappointment check for an hour his vivid activity. His practical energy found... | |
 | 1884 - 628 pages
...God, stir him to outbursts of ecstatic adoration. Vexed as he was by sickness and constant pain, a rare geniality, a peculiar elasticity and mobility of nature gave colour and charm to his life. Nor could danger or disappointment check for an hour his vivid activity. His practical energy found... | |
 | Philip Schaff - Church history - 1890 - 822 pages
...which commonly goea with an intensity of religious feeling or of moral purpose, he showed no trace. He felt none of that scorn of the world about him which drove the nobler soub of his day to monastery or hermitage. Vexed as he was by sickness and constant pain, not only... | |
 | Henry Clay Sheldon - Church history - 1894 - 580 pages
...that remain to us, the name of God, the thought of God, stir him to outbursts of ecstatic adoration. But he was no mere saint. He felt none of that scorn...a peculiar elasticity and mobility of nature, gave color and charm to his life. A sunny frankness and openness of spirit breathes in the pleasant chat... | |
 | John Richard Green - Great Britain - 1898 - 596 pages
...that remain to us the name of God, the thought of God, stir him to outbursts of ecstatic adoration. But he was no mere saint. He felt none of that scorn of the world about Lim which drove the nobler souls of his day to monastery or hermitage. Vexed as he was by sickness... | |
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Alfred's character. His temper was instinct with piety. Everywhere throughout his writings that remain to us the name of God, the thought of God, stir him to outbursts of ecstatic adoration. But he was no mere saint. He felt none of that scorn of the... 
