 | John Aikin - Biography - 1807 - 684 pages
...which he undertook. To rouse mankind, when sunk in ignorance or superstition, and to encounter the rage of bigotry armed with power, required the utmost...neither have reached, nor have excited those to whom it must have been addressed. A spirit more amiable, but less vigorous than Luther's, would have shrunk... | |
 | William Robertson - Europe - 1809 - 484 pages
...which he undertook. To rouse * mankind, when sunk in ignorance or superstition, and to encounter the rage of bigotry armed with power, required the utmost...vigorous than Luther's, would have shrunk back from the dangers which he braved and surmounted. Towards the close of Luther's life, though without any perceptible... | |
 | William Robertson - 1809 - 486 pages
...which he undertook. To rouse mankind, when sunk in ignorance or superstition, and to encounter the rage of bigotry armed with power, required the utmost...vigorous than Luther's, would have shrunk back from the dangers which he braved and surmounted. Towards the close of Luther's life, though without any perceptible... | |
 | William Nicholson - Natural history - 1809 - 684 pages
...by a comma : as, " To rouse mankind, wlicn s,Hnk in ignorance or superstition, and to encounter the rage of bigotry, armed with power, required the utmost vehemence of zeal, and a temper daring to excess." The semicolon is used fur dividing a compound sentence, and hence it... | |
 | William Robertson - Europe - 1810 - 412 pages
...work which he undertook. To rouse mankind when sunk in ignorance or superstition, and to encounter the rage of bigotry armed with power, required the utmost vehemence of zeal, as well as a temper darinj excess. A gentle call would neither have rea nor have excited those to whom it must have addressed... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1812 - 316 pages
...superstition, and to encounter the rage of higotry armed with power, required the utmost vehemence of zeal, and a temper daring to excess. A gentle call would neither...spirit, more amiable, but less vigorous than Luther's, wonld have shrunk hack from the dangers which he braved and surmounted. Towards the close of Luther's... | |
 | William Robertson - America - 1813 - 648 pages
...when sunk in ignorance or superstition, and to encounter the rage of bigotry armed with power, BOOK required the utmost vehemence of zeal, as well as...daring to excess. A gentle call would neither have reach- 1.S4 ed nor have excited those to whom it was addressed. A spirit more amiable, but less vigorous... | |
 | Biography - 1815 - 558 pages
...great work he undertook. To rouse mankind, when sunk in ignorance or superstition, and to encounter the rage of bigotry armed with power, required the utmost...than Luther's, would have "•shrunk back from the dangers which he braved and surmounted. Toward the close of Luther's life, though without any perceptible... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1815 - 558 pages
...great work he undertook. To rouse mankind, when sunk in ignorance or superstition, and to encounter the rage of bigotry armed with power, required the utmost...more amiable, but less vigorous than Luther's, would ha shrunk back from the dangers which he braved and surmounted. Toward the close of Luther's life,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1815 - 552 pages
...undertook. To rouse mankind, when sunk in ignorance or superstition, and to encounter the rage of higotry armed with power, required the utmost vehemence of...but less vigorous than Luther's, would have shrunk hack from the dangers which he braved and surmounted. Toward the close of Luther's life, though without... | |
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... most culpable, gave no disgust to his contemporaries. It was even by some of those qualities, which we are now apt to blame, that he was fitted for accomplishing the great work which he undertook. To rouse * mankind, when sunk in ignorance or superstition,... 
