 | John Richard Green - 1894 - 948 Seiten
...Hutchinson's Memoirs of her husband, and in the early life of Milton, as told in Mr. Masson's biography.] No GREATER moral change ever passed over a nation...Long Parliament. England became the people of a book, arid that book was the Bible. It was as yet the one English book which was familiar to every Englishman... | |
 | William Edward Simonds - 1900 - 510 Seiten
...its decadence was the Restoration. "No greater moral change ever passed over a nation," says Green, "than passed over England during the years which parted...Elizabeth from the meeting of the Long Parliament (1583-1640). England became the people of a book, and that book was the Bible." 1 For the mass of the... | |
 | Hendrik Poutsma - 1928 - 556 Seiten
...of course, apply to such sentences as the following in which that which can be supplied after than : No greater moral change ever passed over a nation than passed over England during the years which [etc]. GREEN, Short H is t. (WESTERN, D e Eng. B isxtninger, § 23). 20. Of some special interest are... | |
 | Ludwig Herrig - 1906 - 844 Seiten
...constitutional progress. PURITAN ENGLAND. [From A Short History of tlie Knglish Ptoplt, Ch. VIII (1874)] No greater moral change ever passed over a nation...the years which parted the middle of the reign of 5 Elizabeth from the meeting of the Long Parliament England became the people of a book, and that book... | |
 | John Haynes Holmes - 1910 - 254 Seiten
...of modern England. Mr. Green, in his Short History of the English People, makes the statement that "no greater moral change ever passed over a nation...Elizabeth from the meeting of the Long Parliament " ; and he attributes this " moral change " almost exclusively to the translation of the Scriptures.... | |
 | Cleland Boyd McAfee - 1912 - 304 Seiten
...reach the better part of a man, and lays hold on him there. Just that it did for the English people. "No greater moral change ever passed over a nation than passed over England during the years that parted the middle of the reign of Elizabeth from the meeting of the Long Parliament. England became... | |
 | Joseph A. Osgoode - 1918 - 232 Seiten
...than the chosen people from whom he derived the oracles of God. "No greater moral change," says Green, "ever passed over a nation than passed over England...the meeting of the Long Parliament. England became a people of one book, and that book was the Bible"; and again, "as a mere literary monument, the English... | |
 | Edwin Greenlaw, James Holly Hanford - 1919 - 712 Seiten
...PEOPLE OF A BOOK THE PURITAN SPIEIT JOHN RICHARD GREEN [From A Short History of the English People] rt, blinded by our purer day, Gropes in yet unblasted...miserable prey; — Shall we guide his gory fingers reigu of Elizabeth from the meeting of the Long Parliament. England became the people of a book, and... | |
 | Edwin Greenlaw, James Holly Hanford - 1919 - 714 Seiten
...PEOPLE OF A BOOK THE PURITAN SPIRIT JOHN RICHARD GREEN [From A Short History of the English People] th to the brave, and Power, Euglaud during the years which parted the middle of the reign of Elizabeth from the meeting of the... | |
 | Joseph Herman Hertz - 1921 - 392 Seiten
...or persecutors. Amen. FMA VOLTAIRE, in ' Sermon du Rabin Akib '. THE BIBLE IN ELIZABETHAN ENGLAND l NO greater moral change ever passed over a nation than passed over England during• the years of the reign of Elizabeth. England became the people of a book, and that book was the Bible. It was... | |
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No greater moral change ever passed over a nation than passed over England during the years which parted the middle of the reign of Elizabeth from the meeting of the Long Parliament [ie, about 1580 to about 1640]. England became the people of a book,... 
