 | Blackford Condit - Religion - 1882 - 488 pages
...understand any thing 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."2 Only in the light of history can we understand this influence of... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1883 - 488 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 i alterations since introduced have added... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Sir Walter Scott - 1883 - 496 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, Sir Walter Scott - 1883 - 494 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 - 1884 - 334 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, Stanley Lane-Poole - 1884 - 342 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 - 1907 - 502 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... | |
 | 1911 - 570 pages
...should hardly be able to understand anything that was written among us a hundred years ago ; for those books being perpetually read in churches have proved a kind of standard for language, especially to the common people." 8 The Translators, in their address to the reader justifying their... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - English prose literature - 1911 - 744 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... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - English prose literature - 1911 - 754 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... | |
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It is your lordship's observation, that if it were not for the Bible and Common Prayer Book in the vulgar tongue, we should hardly be able to understand anything that was written among us a hundred years ago; which is certainly true, for those books,... 
