| Maine Federation of Women's Clubs - 1916 - 450 páginas
...consider him to be, of the faith that became Scotland's, New England's, Oliver Cromwell's. * * * * He is the one Scotchman to whom, of all others, his country and the world owe a debt." The home of William Knox, in Boston, a two-story, gambrelroofed house on Sea Street, was a comfortable... | |
| James Wood - 1920 - 730 páginas
...grave, " There lies one who never feared the face of man." Knox Is pronounced hy Carlyle to have been the one Scotchman to whom, "of all others, his country and the world owe a debt" ; " In the history of Scotland," he says, "I can find properly but one epoch ; we may say It contains... | |
| James Nicoll Ogilvie - 1925 - 278 páginas
...equally arduous task of maintaining the position which had been won. In John Knox, whom Carlyle terms " the one Scotchman to whom of all others his country and the world owe a debt," the Reformed Church possessed a leader of deep religious convictions, invincible courage, wide knowledge... | |
| Ralph Lownie - 2004 - 348 páginas
...he could have crouched into a corner, like so many others; Scotland had not been delivered; and Knox had been without blame. He is the one Scotchman to...all others, his country and the world owe a debt. Thomas Carlyle, Heroes, Hew Worship and the Heroic in History (1840) Tb those who know Knox by hearsay... | |
| Thomas Carlyle - 1899 - 304 páginas
...could have crouched into the corner, like so many others ; Scotland had not been delivered ; and Knox had been without blame. He is the one Scotchman to...forgive him for having been worth to it any million " unblamable " Scotchmen that need no forgiveness ! He bared his breast to the battle ; had to row... | |
| Thomas Smyth - 1908 - 618 páginas
...struggling, what we call the glorious revolution, a habeas corpus act, free parliaments, and much else ! He is the one Scotchman, to whom, of all others, his...forgive him for having been worth to it any million 'unblamable' Scotchmen, that need no forgiveness ! He bared his breast to the battle ; had to row in... | |
| University of St. Andrews - 1901 - 712 páginas
...and Montanus. III. HISTORY OF SCOTTISH CHURCH IN SIXTEENTH CBNTURY. 10. Carlyle says of John Knox : " He is the one Scotchman to whom, of all others, his country and the world owe a debt." Froude says : " No grander figure can be found in the entire history of the Reformation in this island... | |
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