...anything that was wtirten among us an hundred years ago': which is certainly true: for those hooks, heing perpetually read in churches, have proved a kind of standard for language, especially to the common people. And I douht whether the alterations since introduced have added much...

...not in the Church of Scotland or the Roman Catholic Church). As Jonathan Swift confirmed: 'For those Books being perpetually read in Churches, have proved a kind of Standard for Language, especially to the common People.' This is popular literature in the clearest sense of the term, far...

...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...