Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the Close of the Seventeenth Century, with Sketches, Biographical and Literary ...J. Bumpus, 1813 |
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... 229 247 263 · 277 294 306 321 I 331 Sir Thomas More 357 Leland - 396 Harding 408 Hall 414 Tyndale , Coverdale , Rogers - Translations of the Bible Latimer ( Bishop of Worcester ) 424 - 450 SPECIMENS , & c . Edward III . VOL . CONTENTS.
... 229 247 263 · 277 294 306 321 I 331 Sir Thomas More 357 Leland - 396 Harding 408 Hall 414 Tyndale , Coverdale , Rogers - Translations of the Bible Latimer ( Bishop of Worcester ) 424 - 450 SPECIMENS , & c . Edward III . VOL . CONTENTS.
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... Bible , and expounded much in Saxon , that was English , ei- ther common language of this land , in his time . And not only Bede , but king Alfred , that founded Ox- enford , translated in his last days , the beginning of the Psalter ...
... Bible , and expounded much in Saxon , that was English , ei- ther common language of this land , in his time . And not only Bede , but king Alfred , that founded Ox- enford , translated in his last days , the beginning of the Psalter ...
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... Bible into Saxon , but also , not long before his death , the Gospel of St. John into the English of his time ; that Al- fred translated both the Old and New Testa- ment into his native language ; that if histo- ries were well examined ...
... Bible into Saxon , but also , not long before his death , the Gospel of St. John into the English of his time ; that Al- fred translated both the Old and New Testa- ment into his native language ; that if histo- ries were well examined ...
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... Bible , or merely of some particular portions of it , is doubtful ; though the latter supposition is the most pro- bable . These translations , then , of parts of the Old and New Testament , not of the whole Bible , were all made before ...
... Bible , or merely of some particular portions of it , is doubtful ; though the latter supposition is the most pro- bable . These translations , then , of parts of the Old and New Testament , not of the whole Bible , were all made before ...
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... Bible ; from which work this account of them has been chiefly abstracted . A short specimen will suf- fice to give the reader an idea of the manner in which it is executed . Rom . chap . viii . v . 28 , 29 , 30 . And we witen * that to ...
... Bible ; from which work this account of them has been chiefly abstracted . A short specimen will suf- fice to give the reader an idea of the manner in which it is executed . Rom . chap . viii . v . 28 , 29 , 30 . And we witen * that to ...
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Seite 428 - And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.
Seite 257 - Christian knights; and now I dare say,' said Sir Ector, 'thou Sir Launcelot, there thou liest, that thou were never matched of earthly knight's hand; and thou were the courtliest knight that ever bare shield; and thou were the truest friend to thy lover that ever bestrode horse; and thou were the truest lover of a sinful man that ever loved woman ; and thou were the kindest man that ever...
Seite 455 - He married my sisters with five pound or twenty nobles a-piece; so that he brought them up in godliness and fear of God. He kept hospitality for his poor neighbours; and some alms he gave to the poor...
Seite 257 - ... and thou were the kindest man that ever struck with sword; and thou were the goodliest person that ever came among press of knights; and thou were the meekest man and the gentlest that ever ate in hall among ladies; and thou were the sternest knight to thy mortal foe that ever put spear in the rest.
Seite 455 - He had walk for an hundred sheep, and my mother milked thirty kine. He was able and did find the king a harness, with himself and his horse, while he came to the place that he should receive the king's wages. I can remember that I buckled his harness when he went to Blackheath field.
Seite 145 - And last of all, as heartily and as lovingly as ever father blessed his child in earth, I give you the blessing of Our Lord and of me, which of his infinite mercy increase you in all virtue and good living; and that your blood may by his grace from kindred to kindred multiply in this earth to his service, in such wise as after the departing from this wretched world here, ye and they may glorify him eternally amongst his angels in heaven. Written of mine hand, The day of my departing fro this land....
Seite 456 - ... that he brought them up in godliness and fear of God. He kept hospitality for his poor neighbours. And some alms he gave to the poor, and all this did he of the said farm.
Seite 456 - In my time my poor father was as diligent to teach me to shoot as to learn (me) any other thing ; and so, I think, other men did their children. He taught me how to draw, how to lay my body in my bow, and not to draw with strength of arms, as other nations do, but with strength of the body.
Seite 246 - AFTER that I had accomplished and finished divers histories, as well of contemplation as of other historial and worldly acts of great conquerors and princes, and also certain books of ensamples and doctrine, many noble and divers gentlemen of this realm of England came and demanded...
Seite 50 - Sheffield, a mercer, came into a house and asked for meat, and especially he asked after eggs; and the good wife answered that she could speak no French, and the merchant was angry, for he also could speak no French, but would have had eggs, and she understood him not.