The Magnolia Or Friendships Gift of Moral And Entertaining Literature
The Magnolia Or Friendships Gift of Moral And Entertaining Literature
Septimus Winner
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By this strict application he learned to converse fluently in Latin, and could both speak and write it with remarkable purity. The Greek Testament was as 56 LEAVES FROM THE NOTE BOOK OF A GOVERNESS. familiar to him as the English, while his almost unsurpassable skill in logic was universally conceded at Oxford. He pur- sued his mathematical studies as a means of promoting a habit of close thinking, and the study of divinity he reserved for the sabbath. Diligence, joined to good natural elements... of mind, was the secret of his growth in learning. Knowledge was not intuitive in Mr. Wesley. He labored for it diligently, and he succeeded. This characteristic feature of his mind was forcibly shown by a remark which he made, when more than eighty years old, to Mr. Moore, one of his most able preach- ers and his best biographer. They had traveled from Ports- mouth, in Hampshire, to Cobham, in Surrey, which they reached before one o'clock, when he observed, " We should lose no time ; we have not, like the Patriarchs, seven or eight hundred years to play with.
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