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From Lettres écrites de la montagne.
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“Quel homme fut jamais plus tranchant, plus impérieux, plus
décisif, plus divinement infaillible à son gré que Calvin, pour qui la
moindre opposition ... était toujours une oeuvre de Satan, un crime
digne Du feu!”
D’alembert (1717–1783).
“Calvin justly enjoyed a great reputation—a literary man of the first
rank (homme de lettre du premier ordre)—writing in Latin as well
as one could do in a dead language, and in French with singular
purity for his time (avec une pureté singulière pour son temps).
This purity, which our able grammarians admire even at this day,
renders his writings far superior to almost all those of the same age,
as the works of the Port-Royalists are distinguished even at the
present day, for the same reason, from the barbarous rhapsodies of
their opponents and contemporaries.
Frederic Ancillon (1767–1837).
Tableau des Révolutions du Système Politique de l’Europe.
“Calvin was not only a profound theologian, but likewise an able
legislator; the share which he had in the framing of the civil and
religious laws which have produced for several centuries the
happiness of the Genevan republic, is perhaps a fairer title to
renown than his theological works; and this republic, celebrated
notwithstanding its small size, and which knew how to unite morals
with intellect, riches with simplicity, simplicity with taste, liberty
with order, and which has been a focus of talents and virtues, has
proved that Calvin knew men, and knew how to govern them.”
Fr. Pierre Guillaume Guizot (1787–1874).
Celebrated French historian and statesman, of Huguenot descent.
From St. Louis et Calvin, pp. 361 sqq.
“Calvin is great by reason of his marvellous powers, his lasting
labors, and the moral height and purity of his character.... Earnest
in faith, pure in motive, austere in his life, and mighty in his works,
Calvin is one of those who deserve their great fame. Three