 | John B. Dyson - Methodist Church - 1856 - 198 pages
...his own felicity. . . While the grave and serious were charmed with his wisdom, his sportive sallies of innocent mirth delighted even the young and thoughtless...uninterrupted cheerfulness the excellency of true religion. In him even old age appeared delightful — like an evening without a cloud — and it was impossible... | |
 | Christian classics - 1858 - 870 pages
...overflowing goodness of heart. While the grave and serious were charmed with his wisdom, his sportive sallies of innocent mirth delighted even the young and thoughtless;...uninterrupted cheerfulness, the excellency of true Religion." * To a degree scarcely paralleled, hia piety had supplanted those strong instincts — the love of... | |
 | James Hamilton - Christian literature, English - 1858 - 562 pages
...overflowing goodness of heart. While the grave and serious were charmed with his wisdom, his sportive sallies of innocent mirth delighted even the young and thoughtless;...uninterrupted cheerfulness, the excellency of true Religion." * To a degree scarcely paralleled, his piety had supplanted those strong instincts — the love of... | |
 | James Hamilton - 1859 - 436 pages
...overflowing goodness of heart. While the grave and serious were charmed with his wisdom, his sportive sallies of innocent mirth delighted even the young and thoughtless;...uninterrupted cheerfulness, the excellency of true Eeligion." * To a degree scarcely paralleled, his piety had supplanted those strong instincts — the... | |
 | Abel Stevens - Methodism - 1859 - 526 pages
...his own felicity. ... While the grave and serious were charmed with his wisdom, his sportive sallies of innocent mirth delighted even the young and thoughtless ; and both saw in his uninterrupted cheer40 Moore's Life of Wesley, book viii, chap. 5. He was small in stature. In his Journal, Nov. 19,... | |
 | Charles Atmore - 1871 - 318 pages
...overflowing goodness of heart. While the grave and serious were charmed with his wisdom, his sportive sallies of innocent mirth delighted even the young and thoughtless...cynical remarks on the levity of youth embittered his discourse ; no applausive retrospect to past times marked his present discontent. In him even old age... | |
 | Rev. Matthew Lelievre - 1871 - 302 pages
...197, 198. felicity. While the grave and serious were charmed with his wisdom, his sportive sallies of innocent mirth delighted even the young and thoughtless...and both saw in his uninterrupted cheerfulness the excellence of true religion. In him even old age appeared delightful, like an evening without a cloud,... | |
 | Abel Stevens - 1873 - 632 pages
...own felicity. . . . While the grave and serious were charmed with his wisdom, his sportive sallies of innocent mirth delighted even the young and thoughtless...and both saw in his uninterrupted cheerfulness the excellence of true religion. ... In him even old age appeared delightful — like an evening without... | |
 | Abel Stevens - Methodism - 1878 - 472 pages
...own felicity. . . . While the grave and serious were charmed with his wisdom, his sportive sallies of innocent mirth delighted even the young and thoughtless...and both saw in his uninterrupted cheerfulness the excellence of true religion. ... In him even old age appeared delightful — like an evening without... | |
 | Richard Denny Urlin - Anti-Methodism - 1880 - 378 pages
...grave and serious were charmed with his wisdom, his sportive sallies of innocent mirth delighted ever the young and thoughtless; and both saw in his uninterrupted...cynical remarks on the levity of youth embittered his discourse ; no applause retrospect to past times marked his present discontent. In him, even old age... | |
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... may be blended with the most perfect piety. In his conversation, we might be at a loss whether to admire most, his fine classical taste, his extensive knowledge of men and things, or his overflowing goodness of heart. While the grave and serious were... 
