"When he read, you saw that he felt, and he made you feel, that he was the ordained servant of God; delivering His words, or leading you, but as one of like infirmities and sins with your own, in your prayers. When he preached, it was with an affectionate almost plaintive earnestness, which was very moving."
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John Taylor Coleridge, A Memoir of the Rev. John Keble, M.A. Late Vicar of Hursley, Vol. II (1869), pp. 562-563
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John Keble
John Keble (25 April 1792 – 29 March 1866) was an English churchman, one of the leaders of the Oxford Movement, and gave his name to Keble College, Oxford.
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