 | John Ruskin - 1891 - 440 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. Fronde says of Tyndale's version : — " ' Of the translation itself, thongh... | |
 | George Washington Moon - English language - 1892 - 514 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." * But we must hasten... | |
 | Benjamin Bartis Comegys - Authors, American - 1893 - 320 pages
...stereotyped in its verses ; the power of all the griefs and trials of a man is hidden beneath its words. 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." * * FW Faber. 14 XXVI.... | |
 | John Ruskin - English literature - 1894 - 444 pages
...doubt has never dimmed and controversy never soiled.' (Doctor!) ' In the length and breadth of the laud there is not a Protestant with one spark of righteousness...about him whose spiritual biography is not in his English Bible.' '' Mr. Froude says of Tyndale's version : — " ' Of the translation itself, though... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - Literature - 1896 - 448 pages
...of national seriousness. The power of all the griefs and trials of man is hidden beneath its words. In the length and breadth of the land there is not a Protestant, with one spark of seriousness about him, whose spiritual biography is not in his Saxon Bible." Now, it is an additional... | |
 | Frederic William Farrar - Bible - 1897 - 388 pages
...of his English Bible. It is his sacred thing which doubt never dimmed and controversy never soiled; and 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.' 2. Could there be a man... | |
 | Elizabeth Blanchard Cook - Religion in the public schools - 1898 - 204 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." M. Cousin, in a report... | |
 | John Paterson Smyth - Bible - 1899 - 168 pages
...of his English Bible. It is his sacred thing, which doubt never dimmed and controversy never soiled; and 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." CHAPTER VIII. THE REVISED... | |
 | Oliver Corwin Sabin - Christian Science - 1903 - 346 pages
...of his English Bible. It is his sacred thing which doubt never dimmed and controversy never soiled, and 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." CHAPTER LVII. PERSONALITY... | |
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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... 
