 | 1864 - Liczba stron: 868
...from amongst us) thus wrote in a preface to the Life of St. Francis, of Assisi : — "Who will say that the uncommon beauty and marvellous English of...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... | |
 | 1855 - Liczba stron: 534
...extent, it is with our own English version. ' Who will not say,' asks a writer in the ' Dublin Review,' 'that the uncommon beauty and marvellous English of...music that can never be forgotten, like the sound of the church bell, which the convert hardly knows how he can forego. Its felicities often •••'•riu... | |
 | 1861 - Liczba stron: 716
...the wondrous power of our English Bible : " Who will not say that the uncommon beauty and marvelous English of the Protestant Bible is not one of the...great strongholds of heresy in this country ? It lives in the ear like music that can never be forgotten, like the sound of church-bells which the convert... | |
 | 1870 - Liczba stron: 878
...most distinguished scholars who has left the Church of England for that of Rome: " Who will not say that the uncommon beauty and marvellous English of...great strongholds of heresy in this country ? It lives in the ear like a music that can never be forgotten, like the sound of church bells, which the convert... | |
 | 1911 - Liczba stron: 856
...manner the Roman Catholic 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... | |
 | 1881 - Liczba stron: 792
...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... | |
 | 1855 - Liczba stron: 336
...have forgotten and lost These are his words: "Who will not aay that the uncommon beauty and marvelous English of the Protestant Bible Is not one of the great strongholds of heresy In this dtrantry 1 It Ivos on the ear, like a music that can never be forgotten, ike the sound of church bells,... | |
 | 1856 - Liczba stron: 504
...Harness to refute, 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 of church bells which the convert hardly knows how he can forego. Its felicities seem to be almost things rather than... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1853 - Liczba stron: 678
...116. (Vol. xxv. of the Oratory series of the Lives of Modern Saints, Richardson, 1853.) " Who will say that the uncommon beauty and marvellous English of...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... | |
 | Massachusetts Bible Society - 1853 - Liczba stron: 814
...beauty he so finely describes for the Douay version. Hear Professor Newman : — " Who will not say that the uncommon beauty and marvellous English of the Protestant Bible is one of the strongholds of Protestantism ? It lives on the ear like music that cannot be forgotten,... | |
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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... 
