 | Robert Ellis Thompson - Economics - 1875 - 438 pages
...doubt has never dimmed and controversy never soiled. It has been to him all along as the silent but intelligible voice of his guardian angel ; and in...the land there is not a Protestant with one spark of religiousness about him, whose spiritual biography is not in his Protestant Bible" (Preface to Life... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1876 - 764 pages
...has never dimmed and controversy never soiled. It has been to him all along as the silent, but oh, how intelligible, voice of his guardian angel ; and...the land there is not a Protestant with one spark of religiousness about him whose spiritual biography is not in his Saxon Bible. FW FABER (Roman Catholic):... | |
 | William Mathews - English language - 1876 - 384 pages
...English Bible. . . It is his sacred thing, which doubt has never dimmed, and controversy never soiled. In the length and breadth of the land there is not a Protestant with one spark of religiousness about him, whose spiritual biography is not in his Saxon Bible."* It is a very striking... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - Character - 1876 - 388 pages
...his English Bible. It is his sacred thing, which doubt has never dimmed and controversy never soiled. In the length and breadth of the land there is not a Protestant with one spark of religiousness about him whose spiritual biography is not in his Saxon Bible." 1 1 Coleridge, in his... | |
 | Arthur Cayley Headlam - English periodicals - 1885
...doubt never dimmed, and controversy never soiled. It has been to him all along as the silent, but oh how intelligible, voice of his guardian angel ; and in the length and breadth of the 1 Dr. Scrivener's Introduction to the Cambridge Paragraph Bible of 1873, which is the standard critical... | |
 | John Eadie - Bible - 1876
...doubt never dimmed, and controversy never soiled. It has been to him all along as the silent, but O how intelligible, voice of his guardian angel ; and in the length and breadth of the laud there is not a Protestant, with one spark of religiousness about him, whose spiritual biography... | |
 | Henry Hallam - Europe - 1877 - 856 pages
...Bible. It is his sacred thing which doubt has never dimmed and controversy never soiled.' (Doctor!) "In the length and breadth of the land there is not...about him whose spiritual biography is not in his English Bible.' " Mr. Froude says of Tyndale's version : — " ' Of the translation itself, though... | |
 | John Ruskin - Aesthetics - 1877
...Bible. It is his sacred thing which doubt has never dimmed and controversy never soiled.' (Doctor !) '' In the length and breadth of the land there is not...about him whose spiritual biography is not in his English Bible.' " Mr. Froude says of Tyndale's version : — " ' Of the translation itself, though... | |
 | Will Converse Wood - Church and state - 1877 - 379 pages
...has never dimmed, and controversy never soiled. It has been to him all along as the silent, but, oh 1 how intelligible, voice of his guardian angel ; and,...land, there is not a Protestant, with' one spark of religiousness about him, whose spiritual biography is not in his Saxon Bible."1 Froude, the historian,... | |
 | 1877
...has never dimmed, and controversy never soiled. It has been to him all along as the silent, but. oh, how intelligible, voice of his guardian angel ; and...the land there is not a Protestant, with one spark oí' religiousness about him, whose spiritual biography is not in his Saxoii Bible." (FW Faber.) It... | |
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The power of all the griefs and trials of a man is hidden beneath its words. It is the representative of his best moments ; and all that there has been about him of soft, and gentle, and pure, and penitent, and good, speaks to him for ever out of his... 
