 | Julian Willis Abernethy - 1916 - 604 Seiten
...Latinized vocabulary of literary fashion. "As a mere literary monument," says the historian Green, "the English version of the Bible remains the noblest...instant of its appearance the standard of our language." More than this, it transformed the national character. "The whole temper of the nation was changed.... | |
 | Edgar Whitaker Work - 1917 - 296 Seiten
...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. . . . The mass of picturesque allusion and illustration which we borrow from a thousand books, our... | |
 | Joseph A. Osgoode - 1918 - 232 Seiten
...Long Parliament. England became a people of one book, and that book was the Bible"; and again, "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." Side... | |
 | Edwin Greenlaw, James Holly Hanford - 1919 - 714 Seiten
...the Hellenistic Greek, lent themselves with a curious felicity to the purposes of translation. As a dom but machinery? what is population but machinery?...is coal but machinery? what are railroads but mac while its perpetual use made it from the instant of its appearance the standard of our language. For... | |
 | Ellwood Patterson Cubberley - 1920 - 720 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Edmund Kemper Broadus - 1921 - 228 Seiten
...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, while its perpetual use made it from the instant of its appearance the standard of our language. For... | |
 | Charles Austin Beard, Mary Ritter Beard - 1921 - 716 Seiten
...visions, all were flung broadcast over minds unoccupied for the most part by any rival learning. ... As a mere literary monument, the English version of the...remains the noblest example of the English tongue." It was the King James version just from the press that the Pilgrims brought across the sea with them.... | |
 | Joseph Herman Hertz - 1921 - 392 Seiten
...ears which custom had not deadened to their force and beauty, 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 the instant of its appearance the standard of our language. But... | |
 | Joseph Herman Hertz - 1922 - 392 Seiten
...ears which custom had not deadened to their force and beauty, 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 the instant of its appearance the standard of our language. But... | |
 | Josephus Nelson Larned - 1922 - 960 Seiten
...monument,' wrote JR Green, 'the English 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.' 'People imagine,' says Emerson, 'that the place which the Bible holds in the world, it owes to miracles;... | |
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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. 
