 | Josiah Sibley - 1918 - 220 pages
...Bible. It was as yet the one English book that was familiar to every Englishman; it was read at church and read at home, and everywhere. Its words as they fell on ears which custom had deadened, kindled startling enthusiasm. When Bishop Bonner set up the first six Bibles in St. Paul's... | |
 | David John Davies - 1919 - 354 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...force and beauty, kindled a startling enthusiasm." The general moral effect is thus described, "The whole temper of the nation was changed. A new conception... | |
 | David Henry Bauslin - 1919 - 376 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...force and beauty, kindled a startling enthusiasm." Luther's sojourn in this "Patmos," as he styled the Wartburg, marked the opening of a more constructive... | |
 | Edwin Greenlaw, James Holly Hanford - 1919 - 714 pages
...the years which parted the middle of the reign of Elizabeth from the meeting of the Long Parliament. under as before, And ocean bellow from his rocky shore,...Near Dover Inland, within a hollow vale, I stood; kindled a startling enthusiasm. When Bishop Bonner set up the first six Bibles in St. Paul's "many... | |
 | Edwin Greenlaw, James Holly Hanford - 1919 - 712 pages
...book, and that book was the Bible. It was as yet the one English book which was familiar to»every Englishman; it was read at churches and read at home,...as they fell on ears which custom had not deadened, kindled a startling enthusiasm. When Bishop Bouner set up the first six Bibles in St. Paul's "many... | |
 | Ellwood Patterson Cubberley - 1920 - 716 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...as they fell on ears which custom had not deadened, kindled a startling enthusiasm. . . . The popularity of the Bible was due to other causes beside that... | |
 | Edmund Kemper Broadus - 1921 - 228 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...as they fell on ears which custom had not deadened, kindled a startling enthusiasm. When Bishop Bonner set up the first six Bibles in St. Paul's ' many... | |
 | Joseph Herman Hertz - 1921 - 392 pages
...England became the people of a book, and that book was the Bible. It was read in churches, and it was read at home, and everywhere its words, as they fell...force and beauty, kindled a startling enthusiasm. As a mere literary monument, the English Version of the Bible remains the noblest example of the English... | |
 | Joseph Herman Hertz - 1922 - 392 pages
...England became the people of a book, and that book was the Bible. It was read in churches, and it was read at home, and everywhere its words, as they fell...force and beauty, kindled a startling enthusiasm. As a mere literary monument, the English Version of the Bible remains the noblest example of the English... | |
 | Frank Ballard - 1924 - 294 pages
...of the reign of Elizabeth from the meeting of the Long Parliament. England became the people of one book and that book was the Bible. It was as yet the...force and beauty, kindled a startling enthusiasm. " Far greater than its effect on literature or social phrase was the effect on the character of the... | |
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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... 
