_The only authentic Portrait. Engraved for a book by Theodore Beza, published at Geneva in 1580._] "It is really a loss to English and even to universal literature that Knox's hasty and strangely interesting, impressive, and peculiar Book, called _The History of the Reformation in Scotland_, has not been rendered far more extensively legible to serious mankind at large than is hitherto the case. There is in it, ... a really singular degree of clearness, sharp just insight and perspicacity, now and then of picturesqueness and visuality, as if the thing was set before your eyes; and everywhere a feeling of the most perfect credibility and veracity: that is to say altogether, of Knox's high qu…
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