 | Liberalism (Religion) - 1834 - 426 pages
...youth. "It pleased the Lord," writes he, in a letlerto his friend Winthiop, "to call me for some time to practise the Hebrew, the Greek, Latin, French,...Dutch. The Secretary of the Council, Mr. Milton, for the Dutch I read him, read me many more languages. I taught two young gentlemen, a Parliament man's... | |
 | Christianity - 1892 - 796 pages
...some twenty years later, when both were startling the world with eloquent radical pleas for freedom. " The Secretary of the Council, Mr. Milton, for my Dutch I read him, read me many more languages," wrote Williams, after his visit to England in 1651. Here also he may have known Henry Jessey and Hanserd... | |
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It pleased the Lord to call me for some time, and with some persons, to practise the Hebrew, the Greek, Latin, French and Dutch. The Secretary of the Council, (Mr. Milton) for my Dutch I read him, read me many more languages. 
