John Knox.
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Taylor wrote a life of John Knox, published at New York in 1885 with a steel portrait engraved by Holl from a painting in Lord Somerville's possession. William Taylor was a Brooklyn pastor and a popular religious biographer. His preface names his sources: Laing's splendid edition of Knox's works in six volumes, McCrie's memoir of the reformer, and Lorimer's monograph.
Knox, the thundering preacher of the Scottish Reformation, defied Mary of Guise and Mary Queen of Scots to their faces. Taylor tells the life from the sources for American church readers: the galley slavery, the Geneva years with Calvin, and the return to a Scotland ready to rise. Knox's own history of the Reformation supplies the best scenes. The biography is admiring and brisk. It brings the reformer's rough voice into the Victorian parlor.
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| CREATOR | Unknown |
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| COLLECTION | BOOKS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 356 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | Public Domain |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | Project Gutenberg |