 | 1855 - 534 pagina’s
...into it. The potent traditions of childhood are stereotyped in its verses. The power of all the gifts and trials of a man is hidden beneath its words. It...gentle, and pure, and penitent, and good, speaks to him for ever out of the English Bible. It is his sacred thing, which doubt has never dimmed, and controversy... | |
 | 1861 - 716 pagina’s
...in its verses. The power of all the griefs and trials of a man is hidden beneath its words. It ifl the representative of his best moments, and all that...good speaks to him forever out of his English Bible." At the restoration of Charles II. our language passed through an ordeal that tested its purity and... | |
 | 1911 - 856 pagina’s
...are stereotyped in its verses. lt is the representative of a man's best moments; all that there is about him of soft and gentle and pure and penitent and good speaks to him for ever out of his English Bible. lt is his sacred thing which doubt never dimmed and controversy... | |
 | 1881 - 792 pagina’s
...are stereotyped in its verses. The power of all the griefs and trials of a man are hid beneath ita words. It is the representative of his best moments,...of soft and gentle and pure and penitent and good, (•peaks to him forever out of his Protestant Bible. It is his sacred thing which doubt has never... | |
 | 1855 - 336 pagina’s
...power of all the grin- and trials of a man Is hidden beneath ita words. t is the representative of bis best moments, and all that there has been about him...gentle, and pure and penitent and good, speaks to bun for ever out of his English Jlble. .... It Is bis sacred thing, which doubt bas never dimmed, and... | |
 | 1856 - 504 pagina’s
...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...gentle, and pure, and penitent, and good, speaks to him for ever out of his English Bible. It is his sacred thing, which doubt has never dimmed and controversy... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1853 - 678 pagina’s
...with the man of letters and the scholar. The memory of the dead passes iuto it. The potent tradition of childhood are stereotyped in its verses. The power...gentle, and pure, and penitent, and good, speaks to him for ever out of his English Bible. It is his sacred thing which doubt has never dimmed and controversy... | |
 | 1854 - 778 pagina’s
...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...gentle, and pure, and penitent, and good, speaks to him for ever out of his English Bible. It is his SACRED THISG, which doubt has never dimmed, and controversy... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench - 1855 - 232 pagina’s
...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,...gentle, and pure and penitent and good, speaks to him for ever out of his English Bible. . . . . It is his sacred thing, which doubt has never dimmed, and... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench - 1855 - 240 pagina’s
...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,...gentle, and pure and penitent and good, speaks to him for ever out of his English Bible. . . . . It is his sacred thing, which doubt has never dimmed, and... | |
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It is part of the national mind, and the anchor of national seriousness The memory of the dead passes into it. The potent traditions of childhood are stereotyped in its verses. The power of all the griefs and trials of a man is hidden beneath its words.... 
