The Dean's English: A Criticism on the Dean of Canterbury's Essays on the Queen's EnglishHatchard, 1868 - 198 pagina's |
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The Dean's English: A Criticism on the Dean of Canterbury's Essays on the ... George Washington Moon Volledige weergave - 1868 |
The Dean's English: A Criticism on the Dean of Canterbury's Essays on the ... George Washington Moon Volledige weergave - 1868 |
The Dean's English: A Criticism on the Dean of Canterbury's Essays on the ... George Washington Moon Volledige weergave - 1868 |
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Pagina 207 - And the Lord said, Behold, there is a place by me, and thou shalt stand upon a rock : and it shall come to pass, while my glory passeth by, that I will put thee in a clift of the rock, and will cover thee with my hand while I pass by: and I will take away mine hand, and thou shalt see my back parts : but my face shall not be seen.
Pagina 197 - For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God ; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat.
Pagina 189 - What matter where, if I be still the same, And what I should be, all but less than he Whom thunder hath made greater?
Pagina 207 - And it came to pass, as they still went on and talked, that, behold, there appeared a chariot of fire, and horses of fire, and parted them both asunder; and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven.
Pagina 195 - 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, " which the convert hardly knows how he can forego.
Pagina 145 - He that dippeth his hand with me in the dish, the same shall betray me. 24 The Son of man goeth as it is written of him: but woe unto that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed! it had been good for that man if he had not been born.
Pagina 2 - As with a wedge. But when I look again, It is thine own calm home, thy crystal shrine, Thy habitation from eternity ! 0 dread and silent mount ! I gazed upon thee, Till thou, still present to the bodily sense, Didst vanish from my thought ; entranced in prayer 1 worshipped the Invisible alone.
Pagina 195 - 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.
Pagina 178 - And who, in time, knows whither we may vent The treasure of our tongue, to what strange shores This gain of our best glory shall be sent, T' enrich unknowing nations with our stores?
Pagina 163 - Look at those phrases which so amuse us in their speech and books ; at their reckless exaggeration, and contempt for congruity ; and then compare the character and history of the nation — its blunted sense of moral obligation and duty to man ; its open disregard of conventional right where aggrandizement is to be obtained, and, I may now say, its reckless and fruitless maintenance of the most cruel and unprincipled war in the history of the world.