 ... human hearts. He was not a Boniface, not an Anskar, not a Xavier, not a Martyn. His monastic training, carried on probably until he was past middle life, had tended to stiffen his mind and narrow his range of thought ; something of smallness, something...  Chapters of Early English Church History - Page 97by William Bright - 1878 - 460 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Richard Fletcher, Charles Henry Robinson - 1917 - 682 pages
...refuse the hay and stubble he built thereon." 2 " Whatever were his shortcomings," says Bishop Browne, " Augustine of Canterbury was a good man, a devout and...Christian worker who could, and did, face threatening difficulties and accept serious risks in loyalty to a sacred call ; a missionary whose daily conduct... | |
 | Charles Henry Robinson - 1917 - 678 pages
...refuse the hay and stubble he built thereon." 2 " Whatever were his shortcomings," says Bishop Browne, " Augustine of Canterbury was a good man, a devout and...Christian worker who could, and did, face threatening difficulties and accept serious risks in loyalty to a sacred call ; a missionary whose daily conduct... | |
 | Thomas Allen Tidball - 1919 - 248 pages
...Canterbury rested from his labors. ' ' Whatever his shortcomings, ' ' says the late Canon Bright of Oxford, "Augustine of Canterbury was a good man, a devout...Christian worker, who could and did face threatening difficulties and accept serious risks in loyalty to a sacred cause; a missionary whose daily conduct... | |
 | William Lonsdale Watkinson, William Theophilus Davison - 1878 - 548 pages
...carrying on the impulse first given by the Gregorian mission. ... So much as to what he did. As to to what he was in himself, it cannot be said that...Christian worker, who could, and did, face threatening difficulties, and accept serious risks in loyalty to a sacred call ; a missionary whose daily conduct... | |
 | 1878 - 428 pages
...range of thought ; something of smallness, something of self-consciousness, some want of consideration1 for unfamiliar points of view and different forms...Whatever were his shortcomings, Augustine of Canterbury wis a good man, a devout and laborious Christian worker, who could, and did, face threatening difficulties... | |
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