 | 1852 - 626 páginas
...endowed Calvin with a dignified seriousness, both in manner and character, no one was more agreeable than he in ordinary conversation. He could bear, in...reference to religion: he was therefore as powerful and stormv an enemy to vices of this kind, as he was a, devoted friend to truth, simplicity, and uprightness.... | |
 | Cortlandt Van Rensselaer - 1852 - 636 páginas
...endowed Calvin with a dignified seriousness, both in manner and character, no one was more .agreeable than he in ordinary conversation. He could bear, in...or overlooked wilful sin. An enemy to all flattery, ho hated dissimulation, especially every dishonest sentiment in reference to religion : he was therefore... | |
 | 1858 - 588 páginas
...had endowed him with a dignified seriousness, both in manner and character, no one was more agreeable than he in ordinary conversation. He could bear in...they sprung from mere weakness : thus he never shamed or discouraged a weak brother by ill-timed reproofs. And yet he was severe in his discipline, implacable... | |
 | William Pratt Breed - 1872 - 252 páginas
..."Endowed by nature with a dignified seriousness of manner and character, no one was more agreeable in ordinary conversation. He could bear in a wonderful manner with the failings of others. He never shamed any one by ill-timed reproofs, never discouraged a weak brother and never spared a... | |
 | 1875 - 444 páginas
...endowed Calvin with a dignified seriousness, both in manner and in character, no one was more agreeable than he in ordinary conversation. He could bear, in...they sprung from mere weakness; thus he never shamed anyone by ill-timed reproofs, or discouraged a weak brother; while, on the other hand, he never spared... | |
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He never, in any wise, altered the doctrine which he first adopted, but remained true to the last—a thing •which can be said of few theologians of this period. Although nature had endowed Calvin with a dignified seriousness, both in manner and character,... 