 | Cleland Boyd McAfee - 1912 - 304 páginas
...pre-eminence in the republic of letters." When John Richard Green comes to deal with it, he says: "As a mere literary monument the English version of the Bible remains the noblest language of the English tongue, while its perpetual use made of it from the instant of its appearance... | |
 | Mary Clark Barnes, Lemuel Call Barnes - 1913 - 180 páginas
...the Long Parliament. England became the people of a book, and that book was the Bible. . . . " As a mere literary monument, the English version of the...remains the noblest example of the English tongue. . . . But far greater than its effect on literature or social phrase was the effect of the Bible on... | |
 | 1913 - 270 páginas
...the Hellenistic Greek, lent themselves with a 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. —"A Short History of tht English Propit," by John Rickart Green, /'/'. 460, 461. 4 Religious Beliefs... | |
 | Henry Melville King - 1914 - 300 páginas
...literary monument, the English 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." Macaulay, in his " Essay on Dryden," characterizes the English Bible as " a book which, if everything... | |
 | Sinclair Kennedy - 1914 - 266 páginas
...style became a standard.8 From the same epoch dates the translation of the Bible and its popular use. "The English version of the Bible remains the noblest example of the English tongue, while its perpetual use made it from the 1 Ency. Brit., vol. ix. p. 597. 2 Ibid., vol. ix. p. 594.... | |
 | George Peck Eckman - 1915 - 220 páginas
...Scriptures." To this we may join the testimony of Green, the historian of the English people: As a mere literary monument, the English version of the...instant of its appearance the standard of our language. It formed, we must repeat, the whole literature which was practically accessible to ordinary Englishmen;... | |
 | George Peck Eckman - 1915 - 220 páginas
...Scriptures." To this we may join the testimony of Green, the historian of the English people: As a mere literary monument, the English version of the...instant of its appearance the standard of our language. It formed, we must repeat, the whole literature which was practically accessible to ordinary Englishmen;... | |
 | University of Pennsylvania - 1915 - 612 páginas
...themselves with a curious felicity to the purposes of translation. As a mere monument, the Engligh version of the Bible remains the noblest example of the English tongue. . . . The power of the book over the mass of Englishmen showed itself in a thousand superficial ways,... | |
 | National Education Association of the United States - 1916 - 136 páginas
...Story-tellers say that from the standpoint of story-telling there are no stories surpassing Bible stories. As a mere literary monument the English version of the...instant of its appearance the standard of our language. 6 6 Green's Short History of England. To discontinue its use now is a most marked neglect of our, literary... | |
 | National Education Association of the United States - 1916 - 146 páginas
...Story-tellers say that from the standpoint of story-telling there are no stories surpassing Bible stories. As a mere literary monument the English version of the...the instant of its appearance the standard of our language.0 i Green's Short History of England. To discontinue its use now is a most marked neglect... | |
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As a mere literary 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. 
