| Robert Maynard Leonard - Anthologies - 1911 - 452 pages
...understand anything that was written among us a hundred years ago ; which is certainly true : for those books, being perpetually read in churches, have proved a kind of standard for language, especially to the common people ... As to the greatest parts of our liturgy, compiled long before the... | |
| Raymond Macdonald Alden - English prose literature - 1911 - 752 pages
...understand anything that was written among us a hundred years ago; which is certainly true, for those books, being perpetually read in churches, have proved a kind of standard for language, especially to the common people. And I doubt whether the alterations since introduced have added much... | |
| Robert Maynard Leonard - English literature - 1912 - 788 pages
...understand anything that was written among us a hundred years ago ; which is certainly true : for those books, being perpetually read in churches, have -proved a kind of standard for language, especially to the common people. And I doubt whether the alterations since introduced have added much... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1924 - 492 pages
...understand anything that was written among us a hundred years ago; which is certainly true; for those books being perpetually read in churches, have proved a kind of standard for language, especially to the common people. And I doubt, whether the alterations since introduced have added much... | |
| Arthur Quiller-Couch - English prose literature - 1925 - 1262 pages
...understand anything that was written among us an hundred years ago ; which is certainly true : for those books, being perpetually read in Churches, have proved a kind of standard for language, especially to the common people. And I doubt whether the alterations since introduced have added much... | |
| Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch - English prose literature - 1925 - 1124 pages
...Bible and Common Prayer Book in the Vulgar Tongue, we should hardly be able to understand anything that was written among us an hundred years ago ; which is certainly true : for those books, being perpetually read in Churches, have proved a kind of standard for language, especially... | |
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