...philanthropy reformed our prisons, infused clemency and wisdom into our penal laws, abolished the slave-trade, and gave the first impulse to popular education. The...revival began in a small knot of Oxford students." After speaking of Charles Wesley and Whitefield, the same writer adds : " It was John Wesley who embodied...

...moral zeal, while it purified our literature and our manners. A new philanthropy reformed our prisons, infused clemency and wisdom into our penal laws, abolished...Oxford students, whose revolt against the religious deadness of their times showed itself in ascetic observances, an enthusiastic devotion, and a methodical...

...penal laws, abolished the The Rellidous Kevlvol. A 'KO. I. WILLIAM PITT. 1712i то-г. \. slave-trade, and gave the first impulse to popular education. The...Oxford students, whose revolt against the religious deadness of their times showed itself in ascetic observances, an entlrnsiastic devotion, and a methodical...

...increased, a new literature, sprang up, above all England was stirred by a new revival of religion.] THE revival began in a small knot of Oxford students, whose revolt against the re igious deadness of their times showed itself in ascetic observances, an enthusiastic devotion, and...

...increased, a new literature, sprang up, above all England was stirred by anew revival of religion.] THE revival began in a small knot of Oxford students, whose revolt against the re igious deadness of their times showed itself in ascetic observances, an enthusiastic devotion, and...

...religious revival The which dates from the later years of Walpole's ministry ; MeiJ>odi>tsand which began in a small knot of Oxford students, whose revolt against the religious deadness of their times expressed itself in ascetic observances, an enthusiastic devotion, and a methodical...

...which had infested literature ever since the restoration. A new philanthropy reformed our prisons, infused clemency and wisdom into our penal laws, abolished...trade, and gave the first impulse to popular education. 1421. From the new England which was springing up about him, from that new stir of national life and...

...which had infested literature ever since the Restoration. A new philanthropy reformed our prisons, infused clemency and wisdom into our penal laws, abolished...and gave the first impulse to popular education." In all these results Calvinistic Methodism has been as potent an influence as Wesleyanism ; in the...

...however blindly, in the minds of Englishmen. The stir showed itself markedly in a religious revival which began in a small knot of Oxford students, whose revolt against the religious deadness of their times expressed itself in ascetic ol)servances, an enthusiastic devotion, and a methodical...

...a new philanthropy which reformed English prisons and infused clemency and wisdom into the English penal laws, abolished the slave trade, and gave the first impulse to popular education. John Wesley was born at Epworth, in Leicestershire, June 17, 1703, and was the son of a clergyman of...