The Greatest Book in the World: And Other PapersLittle, Brown, 1925 - 451 sivua |
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... appeared . This version was popular during the reign of Edward Sixth , but its vogue was brief , perhaps for the reason that its actual translator , John Rogers , who merely adopted the name of Thomas Matthew , there being in reality no ...
... appeared . This version was popular during the reign of Edward Sixth , but its vogue was brief , perhaps for the reason that its actual translator , John Rogers , who merely adopted the name of Thomas Matthew , there being in reality no ...
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... appeared . Subsequent issues contain- ing minor changes , the result of religious or political bickering , appeared from time to time , until finally , after a conference , it was decided that no further changes should be permitted ...
... appeared . Subsequent issues contain- ing minor changes , the result of religious or political bickering , appeared from time to time , until finally , after a conference , it was decided that no further changes should be permitted ...
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... appeared . Presumably , two printing - houses were engaged upon the work , for the different errors of the press can be accounted for in no other way . A large edition some say as many as twenty thousand copies - was printed ; if so ...
... appeared . Presumably , two printing - houses were engaged upon the work , for the different errors of the press can be accounted for in no other way . A large edition some say as many as twenty thousand copies - was printed ; if so ...
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... appeared so long ago as 1549 . I have already referred to the ease with which contradictory and inexplicable passages have crept into texts written by ignorant or careless scribes , passages which have proved stumbling - blocks ...
... appeared so long ago as 1549 . I have already referred to the ease with which contradictory and inexplicable passages have crept into texts written by ignorant or careless scribes , passages which have proved stumbling - blocks ...
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... appeared in Punch some years ago , at an instant of calm in a strenuous life , when Theodore Roosevelt issued his famous edict vigorously demanding simplified spell- ing . The President , as he then was , is shown with his shirt sleeves ...
... appeared in Punch some years ago , at an instant of calm in a strenuous life , when Theodore Roosevelt issued his famous edict vigorously demanding simplified spell- ing . The President , as he then was , is shown with his shirt sleeves ...
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Sivu 107 - When I was a lad I served a term As office boy to an Attorney's firm. I cleaned the windows and I swept the floor, And I polished up the handle of the big front door. I polished up that handle so carefullee That now I am the Ruler of the Queen's Navee!
Sivu 35 - And then consider the great historical fact that for three centuries this 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, and is as familiar to noble and simple, from John o...
Sivu 363 - I have long determined that the best thing I could do was to put an end to the existence of a being whose birth was unfortunate,* and whose life has only been a series of pain to those persons who have hurt their health in endeavouring to promote her welfare.
Sivu 30 - Truly, good Christian reader, we never thought from the beginning that we should need to make a new translation, nor yet to make of a bad one a good one...
Sivu 85 - This England never did, (nor never shall,) Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror, But when it first did help to wound itself. Now these her princes are come home again, Come the three corners of the world in arms, And we shall shock them : Nought shall make us rue, If England to itself do rest but true.
Sivu 34 - Sail forth — steer for the deep waters only, Reckless O soul, exploring, I with thee, and thou with me, For we are bound where mariner has not yet dared to go, And we will risk the ship, ourselves and all.
Sivu 93 - Not exactly Nahant," said Uncle Edith, "but within hailing distance of a Nahanted ship." "You just used Nahant in the first place so that you could pull that gag," said Primrose, who, up to this time, had taken no part in the conversation, not having been born.
Sivu 112 - You must get up all the germs of the transcendental terms, and plant them everywhere. You must lie upon the daisies, and discourse in novel phrases of your complicated state of mind, The meaning doesn't matter if it's only idle chatter of a transcendental kind. And...
Sivu 341 - College, who lives upon arsenic, aqua-fortis, half-an-hour's sleep in the night, and is desperately in love with the memory of Margaret Nicholson. He hath published what he terms the Posthumous Poems, printed for the benefit of Mr. Peter Finnerty, which, I am grieved to say, though stuffed full of treason...
Sivu 197 - The Accusing Spirit, which flew up to heaven's chancery with the oath, blushed as he gave it in, and the Recording Angel, as he wrote it down, dropped a tear upon the word, and blotted it out for ever.