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" 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 on the ear, like a music that can never be forgotten, like the sound of church bells, which... "
Fors Clavigera: Letters to the Workmen and Labourers of Great Britain - Page 94
by John Ruskin - 1877
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The baptist Magazine

1864 - 868 pages
...away from amongst us) thus wrote in a preface to the Life of St. Francis, of Assisi : — "Who will say that the uncommon beauty and marvellous English...heresy in this country ? It lives on the ear like a music that can never be forgotten — like the sound of church bells, which the convert hardly knows...
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The Christian Remembrancer, Volume 30

Christianity - 1855 - 534 pages
...extent, it is with our own English version. ' Who will not say,' asks a writer in the ' Dublin Review,' 'that the uncommon beauty and marvellous English of...of heresy in this country. It lives on the ear like a music that can never be forgotten, like the sound of the church bell, which the convert hardly knows...
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The Methodist Quarterly Review, Volume 43

Methodist Church - 1861 - 716 pages
...the wondrous power of our English 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...
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 105

American periodicals - 1870 - 878 pages
...testimony of one of the most distinguished scholars who has left the Church of England for that of Rome: " Who will not say that the uncommon beauty and marvellous...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...
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Norton's Literary Gazette and Publishers' Circular, Volume 2

American literature - 1855 - 336 pages
...have forgotten and lost These are his words: "Who will not aay that the uncommon beauty and marvelous English of the Protestant Bible Is not one of the great strongholds of heresy In this dtrantry 1 It Ivos on the ear, like a music that can never be forgotten, ike the sound of church bells,...
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The Dublin Review, Volume 34

Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1853 - 678 pages
...116. (Vol. xxv. of the Oratory series of the Lives of Modern Saints, Richardson, 1853.) " Who will say that the uncommon beauty and marvellous English...heresy in this country ? It lives on the ear like a music that can never be forgotten, like the sound of church bells, which the convert hardly knows...
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Annual Report

Massachusetts Bible Society - Bible - 1853 - 814 pages
...one who left the beauty he so finely describes for the Douay version. Hear Professor Newman : — " Who will not say that the uncommon beauty and marvellous English of the Protestant Bible is one of the strongholds of Protestantism ? It lives on the ear like music that cannot be forgotten,...
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English Past and Present

Richard Chenevix Trench - English language - 1855 - 238 pages
...which in forsaking our translation, he feels himself to have foregone and lost. These are his words: " Who will not say that the uncommon beauty and marvellous...heresy in this country? It lives on the ear, like a music that can never be forgotten, like the sound of church bells, which the convert hardly knows...
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English Past and Present

Richard Chenevix Trench - English language - 1855 - 240 pages
...which in forsaking our translation, he feels himself to have foregone and lost. These are his words : " Who will not say that the uncommon beauty and marvellous...heresy in this country ? It lives on the ear, like a music that can never be forgotten, like the sound of church bells, which the convert hardly knows...
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The Ecclesiastic [afterw.] The Theologian and ecclesiastic ..., Volume 17

1855 - 606 pages
...forsaking our translation, he feels himself to have foregone and lost. These are his words : — ' Who will not say that the uncommon beauty and marvellous...heresy, in this country ? It lives on the ear, like a music that can never be forgotten, like the sound of Church bells, which the convert hardly knows...
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