 The power of all the griefs and trials of a man is hidden beneath its words. 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...  English Past and Present - Page 35by Richard Chenevix Trench - 1855 - 213 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1864 - 868 pages
...has been to him all along as the silent, but O how intelligible, voice of his guardian nneel ; and in the length and breadth of the land there is not...whose spiritual biography is not in his Saxon Bible." It is, therefore, an awful responsibility which they incur, who, without just cause shown, tamper with... | |
 | Christianity - 1855 - 534 pages
...about him of soft, and gentle, and pure, and penitent, and good, speaks to him for ever out of the English Bible. It is his sacred thing, which doubt...the land there is not a Protestant with one spark of righteousness about him whose spiritual biography is not in his Saxon Bible.' One should think that... | |
 | American periodicals - 1870 - 878 pages
...stereotyped in its verses ; the power of all the griefs and trials of a man is bidden beneath its words ... In the length and breadth of the land there is not...whose spiritual biography is not in his Saxon Bible." Yet still our English Bible is a human work, and it exhibits some of those imperfections which necessarily... | |
 | Literature - 1911 - 856 pages
...lt is his sacred thing which doubt never dimmed and controversy never soiled; and in the length ;mil breadth of the land there is not a Protestant with...him whose spiritual biography is not in his Saxon !',ii.i.-. The influence of the Bible on the.-rellglous and social life of the people, and on the English... | |
 | American literature - 1855 - 336 pages
...good, speaks to bun for ever out of his English Jlble. .... It Is bis sacred thing, which doubt bas never dimmed, and controversy never soiled. In the...religiousness about him, whose spiritual biography Is not n his Saxon Bible.' " Not long since, in the State of Maine, suit was >rought by a Catholic in one... | |
 | 1856 - 504 pages
...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 the anchor of national...whose spiritual biography is not in his Saxon Bible." Ekonore and other Poems. By HAMILTON AIDE. Chapman & Hall. THIS Is the first occasion on which we have... | |
 | Massachusetts Bible Society - Bible - 1853 - 814 pages
...forever out of his English Bible. It is his sacred thing, which doubt has never dimmed, nor controversy soiled. In the length and breadth of the land, there...whose spiritual biography is not in his Saxon Bible." And this sentiment in regard to the Bible, as a national household book, spreads wherever the Bible... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1853 - 678 pages
...has be«n to him all along as the silent, but 0 how intelligible voice of his guardian angel ; and in the length and breadth of the land there is not...whose spiritual biography is not in his Saxon Bible. And all this is an unhallowed power ! The extinction of the Establishment would be a less stnp towards... | |
 | Christian literature for children - 1854 - 778 pages
...pure, and penitent, and good, speaks to him for ever out of his English Bible. It is his SACRED THISG, which doubt has never dimmed, and controversy never...whose spiritual biography is not in his Saxon Bible. — Newman. THE CEDAR HILL. ON THE EAELY FORMATION OF GOOD HABITS, (Continued from page 27.) 3. Your... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench - English language - 1855 - 278 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 national...whose spiritual biography is not in his Saxon Bible."* * Dublin Review, June, 1853. Such are his touching words ; and certainly one has only to compare this... | |
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