 | Edmund Burke - 1876 - 682 pages
...became the people of a book, and that book was the Bible. It was as yet the one English book which wu familiar to every Englishman ; it was read at churches...beauty, kindled a startling enthusiasm. . . . The power of the book over the mass of Englishmen showed itself in a thousand superficial ways, and in... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1876 - 694 pages
...the years which parted the middle of the reign of Elizabeth from the meeting of the Long Parliament. England became the people of a book, and that book...beauty, kindled a startling enthusiasm. . . . The power of the book over the mass of Englishmen showed itself in a thousand superficial ways, and in... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - 1877 - 894 pages
...graphic writer of modern date, " England*became the people of a book and that book was the Bible." tt was as yet the one English book which was familiar...force and beauty, kindled a startling enthusiasm. When Bishop Bonner set up the first six Bibles in St. Paul's " many well disposed persons used much... | |
 | John Richard Green - 1877 - 920 pages
...to every Englishman ; it •is read at churches and read at home, and everywhere its words, as tfcey fell on ears which custom had not deadened to their...force and beauty, kindled a startling enthusiasm. When Bishop Bonner set up the first six Bibles in St. Paul's " many well-disposed people used Much... | |
 | John Richard Green - 1878 - 878 pages
...which was familiar to every Englishman ; it was read at churches and read at home, and every where its words, as they fell on ears which custom had not...force and beauty, kindled a startling enthusiasm. When Bishop Bonner set up the first six Bibles in St. Paul's, "many well-disposed people used much... | |
 | 1879 - 506 pages
...times, too, fraught with grand issues. It was the perplexed and chequered but yet great Puritan era. " England became the people of a book ; and that book...force and beauty, kindled a startling enthusiasm."! And the study of that one book made General Baptists of sterling integrity and inflexible courage,... | |
 | John Richard Green - 1879 - 538 pages
...of the people at large. The Bible was as yet the one book which was familiar to every Englishman ; and everywhere its words, as they fell on ears which...force and beauty, kindled a startling enthusiasm. The whole moral effect which is produced now-a-days by the religious newspaper, the tract, the essay, the... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - 1882 - 1040 pages
...supremacy attained by the Bible. Says an eloquent and graphic writer of modern date, " England*became the people of a book and that book was the Bible."...force and beauty, kindled a startling enthusiasm. When Bishop Bonner set up the first six Bibles in St. Paul's " many well disposed persons used much... | |
 | 1882 - 456 pages
...thronged daily by crowds listening to the Word of God. Its influence permeated the whole of society. "Everywhere its words as they fell on ears which custom...force and beauty, kindled a startling enthusiasm." The masses ignorant, degraded, whom the influence of the Renaissance would have taken ages to reach, were... | |
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No greater moral change ever passed over a nation than passed over England during the years which parted the middle of the reign of Elizabeth from the meeting of the Long Parliament. England became the people of a book, and that book was the Bible. It... 
