 | Henry Ezekiel Jackson - Christian sociology - 1919 - 436 pages
...life of all that is best and noblest in English history; it has become the national epic of Britain; it is written in the noblest and purest English, and...exquisite beauties of mere literary form; and, finally, it forbids the veriest hind, who never left his village, to be ignorant of the existence of other countries... | |
 | Frederick Lawrence Rawson - Cosmology - 1920 - 816 pages
...that is best and noblest in English history, and that it has become the national epic of Britain ; that it is written in the noblest and purest English....ignorant of the existence of other countries, and other civilisations, and of a great past, stretching back to the furthest limits of the oldest nations in... | |
 | Terrot Reaveley Glover - Bible - 1921 - 248 pages
...and simple, from John o' Groat's House to Land's End, as Dante and Tasso once were to the Italians ; that it is written in the noblest and purest English,...civilizations, and of a great past stretching back to the furthest limits of the oldest nations of the world." Ill So wrote TH Huxley, an independent witness,... | |
 | Edward Lawrence - Anthropology - 1921 - 150 pages
...and simple, from John-o '-Groat's House to Land's End, as Dante and Tasso once were to the Italians ; that it is written in the noblest and purest English,...ignorant of the existence of other countries and other civilisations, and of a great past stretching back to the farthest limits of the oldest nations in... | |
 | Joseph Herman Hertz - Jewish literature - 1921 - 392 pages
...national epic of Britain, and is familiar to noble and simple, from John o' Groat's to Land's End ; that it is written in the noblest and purest English, and abounds in exquisite beauties of a merely literary form • and, finally, that it forbids the veriest hind who never left his village... | |
 | Christian Fichthorne Reisner - Presidents - 1922 - 438 pages
...all that is noblest and best in our history, and that it has become the national epic of our race; that it is written in the noblest and purest English,...ignorant of the existence of other countries and other civilization and of a great past, stretching back to the furthest limits of the oldest nations in the... | |
 | Joseph Herman Hertz - Jewish literature - 1922 - 392 pages
...national epic of Britain, and is familiar to noble and simple, from John o' Groat's to Land's End ; that it is written in the noblest and purest English, and abounds in exquisite beauties of a merely literary form ; and, finally, that it forbids the veriest hind who never left his village... | |
 | Judah Leo Landau - Hebrew literature, Modern - 1923 - 196 pages
...Britain, and is as familiar to noble and simple as Dante and Tasso once were to the Italians . . . and, finally, that it forbids the veriest hind who never left his village to be ignorant of a great past stretching back to the furthest limits of the oldest nations of the world."2 This was... | |
 | Marion Ernest Cady - Bible - 1923 - 200 pages
...politics equal to that the Scripture can teach us." Speaking of the Authorized Version, Huxley wrote: " It is written in the noblest and purest English, and abounds in exquisite beauties of a merely literary form." "that stupendous work, a book, which, if everything else in our language should... | |
 | Herbert Ronelle Purinton - Bible - 1924 - 216 pages
...Huxley, in making a plea for the use of the Bible in the public schools of London, said: "The Bible is written in the noblest and purest English, and abounds in exquisite beauties of a merely literary form; and, finally, that it forbids the veriest hind who never left his village to... | |
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... book has been woven into the life of all that is best and noblest in English history ; that it has become the national epic of Britain... 
