Childrens Stories in English Literature From Taliesin to Shakespeare
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His influence was o most powerful because of his great eloquence and masterly arguments, and because he was known to be absolutely fearless in the cause of the right, and incapable of being influenced by offers of wealth or power to abandon that cause. This course had two very opposite results for 14 2IO WICKLIFFE. WicklifFe. In the first place, it gave him the position of the first reformer of the age, and finally led to his appointment as Professor of Divinity at Oxford ; and in the second pl...ace, be- cause he kept up his character of reformer, and constantly raised his voice against all abuses, it led to his banishment from Oxford when it was found that he not only attacked the begging friars, but was equally ready to point out the wrongs which existed in the Church itself. But his banishment, which his enemies re- garded as well-deserved defeat, was really the means of enabling him to perform the great work of his life. For although Wickliffe's writ- ings against the corruptions of the Church were of great value, and placed him among the world's great reformers, it was work of another kind which has given him his place in English literature, and a fame that grows brighter with every age.
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