 | 1910 - Страниц: 596
...the Authorised Version of the Bible, in virtue of its position as a great monument of English, ' a book which if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to shew the whole extent of its beauty and power,' may well be included in a series of English Classics,... | |
 | John Haynes Holmes - 1910 - Страниц: 254
...It was Lord Macaulay who declared that " if everything else in the language should perish, the Bible would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and its power." Nor need I quote the familiar eulogy of John Ruskin, and the calmer but no less convincing... | |
 | William Muir - 1911 - Страниц: 296
...and Lord Bacon, ' was almost universal, appeared that stupendous work, ' the English Bible ; . . . a book which if everything ' else in our language should...original, ' prevented them from adding any of the hideous decora ' tions then in fashion . The groundwork of the version, ' indeed, was of an earlier age.' The... | |
 | 1911 - Страниц: 844
...Essay on John Dryden, bears similar testimony. He speaks of "that stupendous work, the English Bible, a book which, if everything else in our language should...to show the whole extent of its beauty and power." And that the English Version, especially of the New Testament, which bears in particular the impress... | |
 | Clarence Augustus Barbour - 1911 - Страниц: 244
...Macaulay, who knew the Bible well from a child and often refers to it, said : " The English Bible — a book which, if everything else in our language should...to show the whole extent of its beauty and power." 3 14. Charles Dickens wrote to his son : " It is my comfort and my sincere conviction that you are... | |
 | Robert Maynard Leonard - 1911 - Страниц: 452
...art could never mend. What simplest minds can soonest comprehend. Macaulay described the Bible as ' a book which, if everything else in our language should...suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power '. P. 297. Arnold. — Wordsworth's opinion was that the prophetic and lyrical parts of the Bible formed... | |
 | Robert Maynard Leonard - 1912 - Страниц: 788
...— JWH Atkins (Cambridge History). See Swift's tribute on p. 617. Macaulay said the Bible was ' a book which if everything else in our language should...suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power '. ' Intense study of the Bible will keep any writer from being vulgar, in point of style.'— ST Coleridge... | |
 | Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert - 1912 - Страниц: 702
...— DANIEL WEBSTER. The word of the Lord is tried. The English Bible — a book which, if every thing else in our language should perish, would alone suffice...to show the whole extent of its beauty and power. — TB MACAULAY. Wherever God's word is circulated, it stirs the hearts of the people, it prepares... | |
 | Cleland Boyd McAfee - 1912 - Страниц: 304
...says that in the period when the English language was imperiled there appeared "the English Bible, a book which if everything else in our language should perish would alone suffice to show the extent of its beauty and power." The mere fact that the English Bible contains a religion does not... | |
 | Harry E. Richards - 1914 - Страниц: 282
...Scripture and the reference work of the Home Reading, The Greatest of Literature. The English Bible, a book, which, if everything else in our language should...to show the whole extent of its beauty and power. — Macaulay. The Bible is the one book that no intelligent person, who wishes to come into contact... | |
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Bible, a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power. 
