 It lives on the ear, like a music that can never be forgotten, like the sound of church bells, which the convert hardly knows how he can forego. Its felicities often seem to be almost things rather than mere words. It is part of the national mind, and...  The American Review of Reviews - Page 585edited by - 1911Full view - About this book
 | 1864 - 868 pages
...Assisi : — "Who will say that the uncommon beauty and marvellous English of the Protestant Bible is not one of the great strongholds of heresy in this...like the sound of church bells, which the convert hardly knows how he can forego. Its felicities often seem to be almost things rather than mere words.... | |
 | Christianity - 1855 - 534 pages
...in the ' Dublin Review,' 'that the uncommon beauty and marvellous English of the Protestant Bible is not one of the great strongholds of heresy in this...music that can never be forgotten, like the sound of the church bell, which the convert hardly knows how he can forego. Its felicities often •••'•riu... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1861 - 716 pages
...Bible : " Who will not say that the uncommon beauty and marvelous English of the Protestant Bible is not one of the great strongholds of heresy in this country ? It lives in the ear like music that can never be forgotten, like the sound of church-bells which the convert... | |
 | Literature - 1911 - 856 pages
...manner the Roman Catholic Faber, in a passage of high eloquence thus speaks of the Authorized Version: it lives on the ear like a music that can never be...which the convert scarcely knows how he can forego. . . . The memory of the dead passes into it. The potent traditions of childhood are stereotyped in... | |
 | American periodicals - 1870 - 878 pages
...Rome: " Who will not say that the uncommon beauty and marvellous English of the Protestant Bible is not one of the great strongholds of heresy in this country ? It lives in the ear like a music that can never be forgotten, like the sound of church bells, which the convert... | |
 | Conduct of life - 1881 - 792 pages
...touching eloquence and marvellous English of this Protestant Bible, and says : " It lives on the ear like music that can never be forgotten, like the sound of church bells, which the convert knows not how he can forego. Its felicities often seem to be almost things rather than words. It is... | |
 | 1856 - 504 pages
...Harness to refute, if he can, tins eloquent argument in favour of our old English book : " It lives in the ear like a music that can never be forgotten, like the sound of church bells which the convert hardly knows how he can forego. Its felicities seem to be almost things rather than mere words. It... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1853 - 678 pages
...Richardson, 1853.) " Who will say that the uncommon beauty and marvellous English of the Protestant Bible is not one of the great strongholds of heresy in this...like the sound of church bells, which the convert hardly knows how he can forego. Its felicities often seem to be almost things rather than mere words.... | |
 | Christian literature for children - 1854 - 778 pages
...TESTIMONY. THE uncommon beauty and marvellous English of the Protestant Bible lire on the ear like music that can never be forgotten — like the sound of church bells which the convert hardly knows how he can forego. Its felicities often seem to be almost things, rather than mere words.... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench - English language - 1855 - 240 pages
...words : " Who will not say that the uncommon beauty and marvellous English of the Protestant Bible is not one of the great strongholds of heresy in this...like the sound of church bells, which the convert hardly knows how he can forego. Its felicities often seem to be almost things rather than mere words.... | |
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