... but to make a good one better, or out of many good ones one principal good one, not justly to be excepted against; that hath been our endeavour, that our mark. The Living Age - Page 4681870Full view - About this book
| Henry Handley Norris - 1823 - 306 pages
...sort, that our people had been fed with gall of dragons instead of wine, with wheal instead of milk ;) but to make a good one better, or out of many good...against: that hath been our endeavour, that our mark. To that purpose there were many chosen that were greater in other men's eyes than their own, and that... | |
| 1829 - 414 pages
...sort, that our people had been fed with gall of dragons instead of wine, with whey instead of milk ;) but to make a good one better, or out of many good...against ; that hath been our endeavour, that our mark. " If you ask what they [the translators] had before them, truly it was the Hebrew text of the Old Testament,... | |
| William Carpenter - 1830 - 342 pages
...sort, that our people had been fed with gall of dragons instead of wine, and whey instead of milk ) ; but to make a good one better, or out of many good...against ; that hath been our endeavour, that our mark. " If you ask what they [the translators] had before them, truly it was the Hebrew text of the Old Testament,... | |
| 1832 - 600 pages
...its Authors ' never thought that' they ' should need to make a new translation, nor yet to make of ' a bad one a good one, but to make a good one better,...justly to be excepted ' against: that hath been,' they say, ' our endeavour, that our ' mark.' One of the royal directions was, that the ordinary Bible... | |
| William Carpenter - 1836 - 776 pages
...47. CHAP. II. [PART 1. nor yet to make of a bad one a good one but to make a good one idler, or oui of many good ones, one principal good one, not justly...against ; that hath been our endeavour, that our mark :" — it is evident, from these expressions, that, although the translators of James did, with great... | |
| Henry John Todd - 1838 - 78 pages
...sort, that our people had been fed with gall of dragons instead of wine, with whey instead of milk;) but to make a good one better, or out of many good...against : that hath been our endeavour, that our mark. To that purpose there were many chosen, that were greater in other men's eyes than their own, and that... | |
| 1852 - 590 pages
...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 ; but to make a good one better,...against : that hath been our endeavour, that our mark." This is just what they attempted, and what they admirably accomplished. Now, as the Geneva translation... | |
| 1870 - 870 pages
...Unfortunately, while the "ulsome dedication to King James is reained in our Bibles, this important Preface s generally omitted. Though somewhat quaint and pedantic,...examine, collate, and critically revise, so as to bring the version into closer and fuller conformity with the originals. With what care and labour they... | |
| 1911 - 856 pages
...to make of a bad one a good one; . . . but to ist; 187 make a good one better, or out of HlM ny sood ones one principal good one, not justly to be excepted against — that iiath been our endeavor, that our tuttrk." As the Authorized Version is -.iiiist;uit iail.v Tindale's,... | |
| 1850 - 232 pages
...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 .... but to make a good one better,...be excepted against: that hath been our endeavour, our mark." How very much these labours like those of St. Jerome ! — and of the Catholic Church! The... | |
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