Protestantism in Poland and Bohemia - James Aitken Wylie

application to business, often dictating to several
secretaries at once, and not unfrequently
dispatching important matters at meals, He was at
home in the controversial literature of the
Reformation, and knew how to employ in his own
cause the arguments of one Protestant polemic
against another. He took care to inform himself of
everything about the life and occupation of the
leading Reformers, his contemporaries, which it
was important for him to know.
His works are numerous; they are in various
languages, written with equal elegance in all, and
with a wonderful adaptation in their style and
method to the genius and habit of thought of each
of the various peoples he addressed. The one grand
object of his life was the overthrow of
Protestantism, and the restoration of the Roman
Church to that place of power and glory from
which the Reformation had cast her down. He
brought the concentrated forces of a vast
knowledge, a gigantic intellect, and a strong will to
the execution of that task. History has not recorded,
so far as we are aware, any immorality in his life.
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