The Greatest Book in the World: And Other PapersLittle, Brown, 1925 - 451 sivua |
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Sivu 14
... perhaps for the reason that its actual translator , John Rogers , who merely adopted the name of Thomas Matthew , there being in reality no such person , was the first martyr to perish in the succeeding reign of Queen , alias " Bloody ...
... perhaps for the reason that its actual translator , John Rogers , who merely adopted the name of Thomas Matthew , there being in reality no such person , was the first martyr to perish in the succeeding reign of Queen , alias " Bloody ...
Sivu 27
... perhaps to relieve the sting , he fell in with the sug- gestion of one of their leaders , John Rainolds , Presi- dent of Corpus Christi College , Oxford , one of the great scholars and linguists of the time , that the Bible should be ...
... perhaps to relieve the sting , he fell in with the sug- gestion of one of their leaders , John Rainolds , Presi- dent of Corpus Christi College , Oxford , one of the great scholars and linguists of the time , that the Bible should be ...
Sivu 42
... perhaps the chief cause of error in our Bible arose in this way : a translator or a scribe would interline a word of explanation or a note of assent or dissent , which a later scribe would write into the main text ; this is the simple ...
... perhaps the chief cause of error in our Bible arose in this way : a translator or a scribe would interline a word of explanation or a note of assent or dissent , which a later scribe would write into the main text ; this is the simple ...
Sivu 62
... perhaps Lord Southwell and the Earl of Orrery . And after the Dic- tionary was published and the money spent , and the Doctor was poorer than ever , for what was £ 1575 spread over eight years and paying for the hire of six amanuenses ...
... perhaps Lord Southwell and the Earl of Orrery . And after the Dic- tionary was published and the money spent , and the Doctor was poorer than ever , for what was £ 1575 spread over eight years and paying for the hire of six amanuenses ...
Sivu 63
... have entered the seemingly deserted Square during my midnight rambles . Then it is that the ghosts walk . Let us enter the house . Raise the knocker and - wake the dead . Perhaps the Doctor will come THE GHOSTS OF GOUGH SQUARE 63.
... have entered the seemingly deserted Square during my midnight rambles . Then it is that the ghosts walk . Let us enter the house . Raise the knocker and - wake the dead . Perhaps the Doctor will come THE GHOSTS OF GOUGH SQUARE 63.
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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.