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| | Fire and brimstone | Review | Guardian Unlimited Books |
 | | He shepherded his wife, pregnant with their 15th child, and all his family, to safety, only to realise that the youngest, John, aged two, was still in the house. |
 | | As Hattersley observed in Blood and Fire, "men of destiny find it hard to separate their own success from the success of their cause". |
 | | Southey, whose biography relied on Wesley's contemporaries, remained certain that "the love of power was the ruling passion of his mind", while John Hampson, one of Wesley's preachers, who left because of his autocracy, wrote of his "absolute and despotic power". |
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