From his writings we derive the impression of an amiable personality, who is honestly at pains to arrive at an understanding with his opponents.
It was found impossible to arrive at an agreement.
They also endeavoured to distinguish between different kinds of income, in order to arrive at a more just estimate of the total income, and fixed by tariff the proportion in which each kind of income was to contribute.
Among the earliest examples of pulpit oratory which have been preserved in English literature, the discourses of Wycliffe and his disciples may be passed by, to arrive at the English sermons of John Fisher (1469?-1535), which have a distinct literary value.
He was so anxious to arrive at right conclusions that he sometimes turned and turned and turned a subject over till the time for action had passed.