 | 1864 - 868 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,...national mind, and the anchor of national seriousness. Nay, it is worshipped with a positive idolatry, in extenuation of whose grotesque fanaticism, its intrinsic... | |
 | 1855 - 534 pagina’s
...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 how he can forego. Its felicities often •••'•riu to be almost things rather than mere words. It is part of the national mind, and the... | |
 | 1870 - 878 pagina’s
...one of the 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,...convert hardly knows how he can forego. Its felicities seem to be almost things instead of words ; it is a part of the national mind, and the anchor of national... | |
 | 1911 - 856 pagina’s
...of high eloquence thus speaks of the Authorized Version: it lives on the ear like a music that can never be forgotten, like the sound of church bells which the convert scarcely knows how he can forego. . . . The memory of the dead passes into it. The potent traditions... | |
 | 1881 - 792 pagina’s
...and marvellous English of this Protestant Bible, and says : " It lives on the ear like music that can never be forgotten, like the sound of church bells, which the convert knows not how he can forego. Its felicities often seem to be almost things rather than words. It is... | |
 | 1855 - 336 pagina’s
...bells, which the convert hardly tnows how he can forego. Its felicities often seem to be almost tilings rather than mere words. It Is part of the national...national seriousness. . . . The memory of the dead paases Into it. The potent traditions of childhood are stereotyped In Its verses. The power of all... | |
 | 1856 - 504 pagina’s
...tins eloquent argument in favour of our old English book : " It lives in the ear like a music that can never be forgotten, like the sound of church bells...convert hardly knows how he can forego. Its felicities seem to be almost things rather than mere words. It is part of the national mind, and the anchor of... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1853 - 678 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,...national mind, and the anchor of national seriousness. Nay, it is worshipped with a positive idolatry, in extenuation of whose grotesque fanaticism its intrinsic... | |
 | Horace Bushnell - 1853 - 154 pagina’s
...said : " King James's version lives in the ear of a Briton, ' like music that can never be forgot, 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 is a part of the national mind, and the anchor... | |
 | Massachusetts Bible Society - 1853 - 814 pagina’s
...the strongholds of Protestantism ? It lives on the ear like music that cannot be forgotten, like the church bells which the convert hardly knows how he can forego. Its felicities seem to be things rather than words. The memory of the dead passes into it. The potent traditions of... | |
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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,... 
