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... beautiful associations - is especially renowned for his diligence and care in this invaluable department of literary employ . Multitudes of early manuscripts of Latin Scrip- tures have been destroyed by time , carelessness , or ignorant ...
... beautiful associations - is especially renowned for his diligence and care in this invaluable department of literary employ . Multitudes of early manuscripts of Latin Scrip- tures have been destroyed by time , carelessness , or ignorant ...
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... inlæd usih in costunge uh gefrig usich from yfle . " The old quarto volume , in which this trans- lation is preserved , is one of the most beautiful specimens of ancient penmanship we possess . One might almost ANGLO - SAXON FRAGMENTS . 15.
... inlæd usih in costunge uh gefrig usich from yfle . " The old quarto volume , in which this trans- lation is preserved , is one of the most beautiful specimens of ancient penmanship we possess . One might almost ANGLO - SAXON FRAGMENTS . 15.
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... beautiful volumes - correct copies of one original - all marvellously alike , displaying on their leaves gracefully formed letters , such as may rival the fairest specimens of penmanship , appear in unusual numbers ! These magic ...
... beautiful volumes - correct copies of one original - all marvellously alike , displaying on their leaves gracefully formed letters , such as may rival the fairest specimens of penmanship , appear in unusual numbers ! These magic ...
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... beautiful Psalter of 1457 , executed by Fust and Schæffer : but the Mazarin Bible is gene- rally considered the earliest offspring of this noble art , and is assigned by conjecture to 1455 or 1452. The Cologne Chronicle says 1450 . " We ...
... beautiful Psalter of 1457 , executed by Fust and Schæffer : but the Mazarin Bible is gene- rally considered the earliest offspring of this noble art , and is assigned by conjecture to 1455 or 1452. The Cologne Chronicle says 1450 . " We ...
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... beautiful lines in the song of Zacharias : - " Blessed be the Lord God of Israel , For he hath visited and redeemed his people ; That we should be saved from our enemies , And from the hand of all that hate us ; To give knowledge of ...
... beautiful lines in the song of Zacharias : - " Blessed be the Lord God of Israel , For he hath visited and redeemed his people ; That we should be saved from our enemies , And from the hand of all that hate us ; To give knowledge of ...
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Page 134 - ... 5. The division of the chapters to be altered either not at all, or as little as may be, if necessity so require. 6. No marginal notes at all to be affixed, but only for the explanation of the Hebrew or Greek words which cannot, without some circumlocution, so briefly and fitly be expressed in the text.
Page 134 - Bible, to be followed, and as little altered, as the truth of the original will permit.
Page 50 - As He spake by the mouth of His holy prophets, which have been since the world began : That we should be saved from our enemies, and from the hand of all that hate us...
Page 78 - I call God to record against the day we shall appear before our Lord Jesus, to give a reckoning of our doings, that I never altered one syllable of God's word against my conscience, nor would this day, if all that is in the earth, whether it be pleasure, honour, or riches, might be given me.
Page 83 - But to him that worketh not, but believeth in him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith...
Page 137 - I take my subjects' money, when I want it, without all this formality of parliament?" The bishop of Durham readily answered, "God forbid, Sir, but you should: you are the breath of our nostrils." Whereupon the King turned and said to the bishop of Winchester, "Well, my Lord, what say you?" "Sir," replied the bishop, "I have no skill to judge of parliamentary cases.
Page 54 - As I this thought, the bishop of London came to my remembrance, whom Erasmus (whose tongue maketh of little gnats great elephants, and lifteth up above the stars whosoever giveth him a little exhibition) praiseth exceedingly, among other in his Annotations on the New Testament, for his great learning.
Page 89 - ... not much better than their dinner. Immediately after the which they go either to reasoning in problems, or unto some other study, until it be nine or ten of the clock ; and then being without fire, are fain to walk or run up and down half an hour, to get a heat on their feet, when they go to bed.
Page 165 - When thou goest, it shall lead thee ; when thou sleepest, it shall keep thee ; and when thou awakest, it shall talk with thee. For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life: to keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.
Page 111 - It was wonderful to see with what. joy this book of God was received not only among the learneder sort and those that were noted for lovers of the reformation, but generally all England over among all the vulgar and common people; and with what greediness God's word was read and what resort to places where the reading of it was.