 | 1892 - 460 pages
...essential base of conduct, can be kept up without the Bible. For three centuries this book has been enwoven into the life of all that is best and noblest in English history. It forbids the very hind, who never left his native village, to be ignorant of the existence of other... | |
 | H. W. Smith - 1897 - 366 pages
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 | Frederic William Farrar - 1897 - 388 pages
...literature a vast residuum of moral beauty and grandeur. And then consider the great historical fact that for three centuries this book has been woven into...of all that is best and noblest in English history ; that it has become the national epic of Britain, and is familiar to noble and simple from John o'... | |
 | Swami Vivekananda - 1897 - 144 pages
...Board the Bible as a text-book, thus spoke of its claims : " Consider the great historical fact that, for three centuries this book has been woven into...of all that is best and noblest in English history ; that it has become the national epic of Britain, and is familiar to noble and simple, from John O'Groat's... | |
 | Huxley, Thomas H. - 1898
...literature a vast residuum of moral beauty and grandeur. And then consider the great historical fact that, for three centuries, this book has been woven into...of all that is best and noblest in English history ; that it has become the national epic of Britain, and is as familiar to noble and simple, from John-o'-Groat'a... | |
 | Richard Garnett, Léon Vallée, Alois Brandl - 1899 - 438 pages
...perplexed to know how the religious feeling, which is the essential basis of conduct, can be kept up without the use of the Bible. For three centuries...all that is best and noblest in English history. It forbids the veriest hind who never left his village to be ignorant of the existence of other countries... | |
 | Richard Garnett - 1899 - 578 pages
...perplexed to know how the religious feeling, which is the essential basis of conduct, can be kept up without the use of the Bible. For three centuries...that is best ; a.nd noblest in English history. It forbids the veriest hind who :never left his village to be ignorant of the existence of other 'countries... | |
 | Richard Garnett - 1899 - 432 pages
...perplexed to know how the religious feeling, which is the essential basis of conduct, can be kept up without the use of the Bible. For three centuries...all that is best and noblest in English history. It forbids the veriest hind who never left his village to be ignorant of the existence of other countries... | |
 | Fred Lewis Pattee - 1899 - 406 pages
...has ever been educated, and its influence has increased with every year. Consider [says Huxley], that for three centuries this book has been woven into...of all that is best and noblest in English history ; that it has become the national epic of Britain, and is as familiar to noble and simple from John-o'-Groat's... | |
 | 1900 - 654 pages
...peculiarly charming style to hie close and daily study of the Bible in childhood. Says Professor Huxley : " For three centuries this book has been woven into...all that is best and noblest in English history. It is written in the noblest and purest English, and abounds in exquisite beauties of a merely literary... | |
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And then consider the great historical fact that for three centuries this book has been woven into the life of all that is best and noblest in English history; that it has become the national epic of Britain, and is as familiar to noble and simple, from... 
