It is the representative of his best moments, and all that there has been about him of soft and gentle and pure and penitent and good speaks to him for ever out of his English bible It is his sacred thing, which doubt has never dimmed, and controversy... Littell's Living Age - Page 4421870Full view - About this book
| 1871 - 404 pages
...his English Bible It is his sacred thing, which doubt has never damned, and controversy never soiled. In the length and breadth of the land, there is not...whose spiritual biography is not in his Saxon Bible." What a charming lesson for English Protestants ! For them, no book is as our Book, " even our enemies... | |
| J. J. Smith - 1871 - 302 pages
...English Bible. It is his sacred thing, which doubt has never dimmed, and controversy never soiled. In the length and breadth of the land there is not...whose spiritual biography is not in his Saxon Bible." Now if it be a fact, as is here stated even by a Romanist, and as it seems to me must be admitted by... | |
| 1871 - 588 pages
...English Bible. ... It is his sacred thing, which doubt has never dimmed, and controversy nerer soiled. In the length and breadth of the land, there is not...about him whose spiritual biography is not in his Sason Bible.' ALETII. THE REV. MATTHEW DICKIE. BY THE REV. JOHN KIRKWOOD, TROON. THAT the Rev. Matthew... | |
| 1872 - 784 pages
...his sacred thing, which doubt has never and controversy has never soiled ; in the length and breast-" of the land there is not a Protestant with one spark of 4*' eousness about him whose spiritual biography is not in ® Saxon Bible." So says Dr. Newman; but... | |
| Robert William Dale, James Guinness Rogers - 1881 - 1104 pages
...marvellous English of the Protestant Bible is not one of the strongholds of heresy in this country ... In the length and breadth of the land there is not...whose spiritual biography is not in his Saxon Bible." It seems little less than sacrilege to lay hands upon a book so venerable, so endeared to multitudes... | |
| John William Kirton - 1873 - 244 pages
...English Bible. It is his sacred thing, which doubt has never dimmed, and controversy never soiled. In the length and breadth of the land there is not...whose spiritual biography is not in his Saxon Bible." VII. The Bible has given man the Sabbath, — the " pearl of days," as it has been beautifully styled.... | |
| 1872 - 778 pages
...English Bible; it is his sacred thing, which doubt has never dimmed and contrpversy has never soiled; in the length and breadth of the land there is not a Protestant with one spark of righteousness about him whose spiritual biography is not in his Saxon Bible." So says Dr. Newman; but... | |
| Henry Barnard - 1872 - 984 pages
...English Bible. It is his sacred thing, which doubt hns never dimmed, and controversy never soiled. In the length and breadth of the land there is not a Prntestnnt with one spark of righteousness about him, whose spiritual biography is not in his Saion... | |
| 1873 - 442 pages
...his English Bible. It is his sacred thing, which doubt has never dimmed and controversy never soiled. In the length and breadth of the land there is not...whose spiritual biography is not in his Saxon Bible," — Newman. How Palestine has withered up. IT is a matter of fact in the practical consideration of... | |
| Edwin Cone Bissell - 1873 - 466 pages
...An. by Prof. Schaeffer. sacred thing, which doubt has never dimmed and controversy never soiled. ... In the length and breadth of the land there is not...whose spiritual biography is not in his Saxon Bible." An analysis of the style of our present version has been English in connection with that of fourteen... | |
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