 | John Farmer - 1823 - 526 oldal
...preacher, and in sentiment with his venerable father, who said, by way of excuse for his nocturnal studies, that " he loved to sweeten his mouth with a piece of Calvin before he went to sleep." Governor Cranfield, after imprisoning the Rev. Mr. Moody, of Portsmouth, for refusing to administer... | |
 | Caleb Hopkins Snow - 1828 - 512 oldal
...difficult place in the bible which he had not studied somewhat to satisfaction, and that he always loved to sweeten his mouth with a piece of Calvin before he went to sleep. His political writings show him to have been friendly to an elective government, administered on the principles... | |
 | William Allen - 1832 - 820 oldal
...all. Being asked in the latter part of his life, why he indulged in nocturnal studies, he answered, that he loved to sweeten his mouth with a piece of Calvin before he went to sleep. Twelve hours in a day were generally occupied by his studies, and such was his zeal in theological... | |
 | 1867 - 738 oldal
...was " a universal scholar and a walking library ;" he studied twelve hours a day, and said he liked to sweeten his mouth with a piece of Calvin before he went to sleep. Shepard," in continuance of whose labours he kept a monthly lecture, " wherein he largely handled man's... | |
 | Charles Kittredge True - 1846 - 154 oldal
...was under his roof. In doctrine he was a Calvinist, and he often said to his friends, he always liked to sweeten his mouth with a piece of Calvin before he went to sleep. In the fall of 1652, he took a violent cold, while crossing the ferry to preach to the students at... | |
 | Nathaniel Bouton - 1848 - 56 oldal
...in sentiment with his venerable father ; who said, by way of excuse for his own nocturnal studies, " that he loved to sweeten his mouth with a piece of Calvin before he went to sleep"j:; and of the son, Cotton Mather said, " that none of the lately revived heresies were more... | |
 | Theodore Parker - 1852 - 456 oldal
...rent with the blasphemies of this generation." John Cotton, the ablest man in New England, who " Liked to sweeten his mouth with a piece of Calvin, before he went to sleep," and was so pious that another could not swear while he was unde r the roof, mourned at " The condition... | |
 | 1867 - 746 oldal
...was " a universal scholar and a walking library ;" he studied twelve hours a day, and said he liked to sweeten his mouth with a piece of Calvin before he went to sleep. A fearful rate of labour; a strange, grave, quaint, ascetic, rigorous life. It seems a mystery how... | |
 | William Allen - 1857 - 930 oldal
...all. Being asked, in the latter part of his life, why he indulged in nocturnal studies, he answered, that he loved to sweeten his mouth with a piece of Calvin before he went to sleep. Twelve hours in a day were generally occupied by his studies ; and such was his zeal in theological... | |
 | 1905 - 880 oldal
...in their supreme interest. His long row of volumes are the scholar's Summa Theologue. As John Cotton loved to sweeten his mouth with a piece of Calvin before he went to sleep, so the scholar may turn to Sainte-Beuve, sure of his never-failing abundance and his ripe intelligence.... | |
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Grace, grafted on a crab-stock," in 1660, growled, after his 'wont, on account of the " Heart of New England, rent with the blasphemies of this generation." John Cotton, the ablest man in New England, who " liked to sweeten his mouth with a piece of Calvin,... 
