 It lives on the ear, like a music that can never be forgotten, like the sound of church bells, which the convert hardly knows how he can forego. Its felicities often seem to be almost things rather than mere words. It is part of the national mind, and...  Recollections of a Long Life - Page 334publié par - 1902 - 364 pagesAffichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | 1864 - 868 pages
...Protestant Bible is not one of the great strongholds of heresy in this country ? It lives on the ear like a music that can never be forgotten — like the sound...which the convert hardly knows how he can forego. Its felicities often seem to be almost things rather than mere words. It is part of the national mind,... | |
 | 1855 - 534 pages
...how he can forego. Its felicities often •••'•riu to be almost things rather than mere words. It is part of the national mind, and the anchor of...the dead passes into it. The potent traditions of childhood are stereotyped in its verses. The power of all the gifts and trials of a man is hidden beneath... | |
 | 1861 - 716 pages
...hardly knows how he can forego. Its felicities often seem to be almost things rather than mere words. It is part of the national mind, and the anchor of...the dead passes into it. The potent traditions of childhood are stereotyped in its verses. The power of all the griefs and trials of a man is hidden... | |
 | 1870 - 878 pages
...Protestant Bible is not one of the great strongholds of heresy in this country ? It lives in the ear like a music that can never be forgotten, like the sound...which the convert hardly knows how he can forego. Its felicities seem to be almost things instead of words ; it is a part of the national mind, and the... | |
 | 1911 - 856 pages
...Faber, in a passage of high eloquence thus speaks of the Authorized Version: it lives on the ear like a music that can never be forgotten, like the sound of church bells which the convert scarcely knows how he can forego. . . . The memory of the dead passes into it. The potent traditions... | |
 | 1881 - 792 pages
...touching eloquence and marvellous English of this Protestant Bible, and says : " It lives on the ear like music that can never be forgotten, like the sound of church bells, which the convert knows not how he can forego. Its felicities often seem to be almost things rather than words. It is... | |
 | 1855 - 336 pages
...hardly tnows how he can forego. Its felicities often seem to be almost tilings rather than mere words. It Is part of the national mind, and the anchor of...national seriousness. . . . The memory of the dead paases Into it. The potent traditions of childhood are stereotyped In Its verses. The power of all... | |
 | 1856 - 504 pages
...if he can, tins eloquent argument in favour of our old English book : " It lives in the ear like a music that can never be forgotten, like the sound...which the convert hardly knows how he can forego. Its felicities seem to be almost things rather than mere words. It is part of the national mind, and... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1853 - 678 pages
...Protestant Bible is not one of the great strongholds of heresy in this country ? It lives on the ear like a music that can never be forgotten, like the sound...which the convert hardly knows how he can forego. Its felicities often seem to be almost things rather than mere words. It is part of the national mind,... | |
 | Horace Bushnell - 1853 - 154 pages
...said : " King James's version lives in the ear of a Briton, ' like music that can never be forgot, like the sound of church bells, which the convert hardly knows how he can forego. Its felicities seem to be almost things, rather than mere words. It is a part of the national mind,... | |
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