The illustrated history of Methodism [electronic resource]; the story of the origin and progress of the Methodist church, from its foundation by John Wesley to the present dayWritten in popular style and illustrated by more than one thousand portraits and views of persons . OLIVRR The Illustrated History of Methodism 341 soupcon of curl at the ends. It wasnot brought home to him that Wesleywas sincere; indeed the whole of his talkseemed acting, like Garricks. To-ward the end he exalted his voice, andacted very ugly enthusiasm, decriedlearning and told stories. Sixteen years later,
The illustrated history of Methodism [electronic resource]; the story of the origin and progress of the Methodist church, from its foundation by John Wesley to the present dayWritten in popular style and illustrated by more than one thousand portraits and views of persons . OLIVRR The Illustrated History of Methodism 341 soupcon of curl at the ends. It wasnot brought home to him that Wesleywas sincere; indeed the whole of his talkseemed acting, like Garricks. To-ward the end he exalted his voice, andacted very ugly enthusiasm, decriedlearning and told stories. Sixteen years later, when society hadbegun to give up its antagonism toMethodism, and to testify its respect forWesley, he was still incorrigible. Inwriting to a friend respecting epicpoetry, he makes the astonishing re-mark that Dante was extravagant, ab-surd, disgusting; in short, a Methodistparson in That Horace Walpole was not anenemy to religion is shown by his friend-ship, late in life, with the excellentHannah More, whose piety he com-mended as being free from was so out of touch with the deeperhuman life of the period, with the cryingneeds of the lower classes, that he asso-ciated enthusiasm with the emotionalismof society women, eager for some newexcitement, and ever prone
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