| Ludwig Herrig - 1906 - 844 páginas
...Hellenistic Greek, lent themselves with a curious felicity to the purso poses of translation. As a mere literary monument, the English version of the...English tongue. Its perpetual use made it from the in85 stant of its appearance the standard of our language. But for the moment its literary effect was... | |
| Charles Austin Beard - 1906 - 754 páginas
...of the Hellenistic Greek, lent themselves with curious felicity to the purposes of translation. As a mere literary monument, the English version of the...remains the noblest example of the English tongue, while its perpetual use made it from the instant of its appearance the standard of our language. For... | |
| Charles A. Beard, Charles Austin Beard - 1906 - 774 páginas
...monument, the English version of the Bible remains the noblest example of the English tongue, while its perpetual use made it from the instant of its appearance the standard of our language. For the moment, however, its literary effect was less than its social. The power of the book over the... | |
| Daniel White Wells, Reuben Field Wells - 1910 - 542 páginas
...of the Hellenic Greek, lent themselves with a curious felicity to the purposes of translation. As a mere literary monument, the English version of the...instant of its appearance the standard of our language. But for the moment its literary effect was less than its social. The power of the book over the mass... | |
| Annette M. B. Meakin - 1911 - 426 páginas
...architectural lines. All students of English are aware of the debt our literature owes to the Bible. " As a mere literary monument, the English version of the...remains the noblest example of the English tongue," wrote a nineteenth - century historian. " Its perpetual use made it, from the instant of its appearance,... | |
| William Muir - 1911 - 296 páginas
...has exercised a great and beneficent influence on the development of the English language . ' As a mere literary monument, the English ' version of the...remains the noblest example of ' the English tongue.' Critics of all schools, who agree about hardly anything else, are agreed that it is the richest repository... | |
| 1911 - 982 páginas
...the translation of 1611 became, as Green has said, "the noblest example of the English tongue, while its perpetual use made it from the instant of its appearance the standard of our language." Its influence is evident in nearly all tingreater English writers and in the American writers as well;... | |
| 1911 - 400 páginas
...of Hellenistic Greek, lent themselves with a curious felicity to the purposes of translation. As a mere literary monument, the English version of the Bible remains the noblest example of the English tongue."f When the British and Foreign Bible Society was formed, there was a notion in some quarters... | |
| 1911 - 844 páginas
...ordered to be set up in churches." And considered simply as a "literary monument" it will be allowed that "the English version of the Bible remains the noblest example of the English tongue." "The English of the Authorized Version," says Dr. Kenyon, "is the finest specimen of our prose literature... | |
| 1907 - 1038 páginas
...everywhere its words, falling on ears which custom had not deadened, kindled a startling enthusiasm. As a mere literary monument, the English version of the...remains the noblest example of the English tongue, while its perpetual use made it from its first appearance the standard of our language." He also quotes... | |
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