 | 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... | |
 | W. F. Bolton - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1966 - 244 pages
...not for the Bible and Common Prayer Book in the vulgar Tongue, we should hardly be able to understand any Thing 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... | |
 | Michael Patrick O'Connor, David Noel Freedman - Bible - 1987 - 392 pages
...hardly be able to understand anything that was written among us an Hundred Years ago. . . : For those books being perpetually read in Churches, have proved a Kind of Standard for Language, especially for the Common People." The language of the books was a common possession, an aid to understanding... | |
 | Manfred Görlach - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1991 - 492 pages
...not for the Bible and Common Prayer Book in the vulgar Tongue, we should hardly be able to understand any Thing that was written among us an hundred Years ago: Which is certainly true: For those Books being perpetually 5 read in Churches, have proved a kind of Standard for Language, especially... | |
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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,... 
