 | Edmund Burke - 1876 - 682 páginas
...to see its importance fully recognized by Mr. Green : — " No greater moral change ever passed over a nation than passed over England during the years...the Bible. It was as yet the one English book which wu familiar to every Englishman ; it was read at churches and read at home, and everywhere its words,... | |
 | John Richard Green - 1877 - 920 páginas
...told in Mr. Masson's biography.] No CHEATER moral change ever passed over a nation than passed wcr England during the years which parted the middle of...of a book, and that book was the Bible. It was as f« the one English book which was familiar to every Englishman ; it •is read at churches and read... | |
 | John Richard Green - 1878 - 878 páginas
...moral change ever passed over я nation than passed over England during the years which parted thu middle of the reign of Elizabeth from the meeting...Englishman ; it was read at churches and read at home, and every where its words, as they fell on ears which custom had not deadened to their force and beauty,... | |
 | Samuel Cox, Sir William Robertson Nicoll, James Moffatt - 1881 - 488 páginas
...even more than the Bible was among the Puritans of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, when " England became the people of a book, and that book was the Bible."3 "The power of the book over the mass of Englishmen shewed itself in a thousand superficial... | |
 | John Richard Green - 1884 - 838 páginas
...early lile of Milton, as told in Mr. Masson'g biography.] No greater moral change ever passed over a nation than passed over England during the years...Englishman ; it was read at churches and read at home, and every where its words, as they fell on ears which custom had not deadened to their force and beauty,... | |
 | 1884 - 668 páginas
...Puritan England, 2 has given a vivid and truthful picture of this influence : " England," he says, " became the people of a book, and that book was the Bible." Of course the most direct and palpable effect of this access to the Bible in the Genevan or the Bishops'... | |
 | Canada. Department of the Interior - 1888 - 756 páginas
...Modern England — the England in which we live." 6. Write the history of Sir Walter Raliegh. 7. " England became the people of a book, and that book was the Bible." Point out, after Green, the influence exerted by the Bible on the social, literary and political character... | |
 | 1888 - 226 páginas
...thing but a written thing, and written not with a view of publication, but of permanence." Green said: "England became the people of a Book and that Book was the Bible." JAH Murray said, in his thirteenth address before the Philological Society in 1884: "I do not know... | |
 | Alliance of Reformed Churches Holding the Presbyterian System - 1889 - 756 páginas
...Bible, the Word of God, and the minds of the people must be brought into contact. "England," says Green, "became the people of a book, and that book was the Bible. Its effect, however dispassionately we examine it, was simply amazing. The whole temper of the nation... | |
 | Edmund Salusbury Ffoulkes - 1892 - 548 páginas
...S. Mary's in our own times be heard on this point. § 4. ' No greater moral change ever passed over a nation than passed over England during the years...and that book was the Bible. It was as yet the one book that was familiar to every Englishman. It was read at churches, and it was read at home; and everywhere... | |
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No greater moral change ever passed over a nation than passed over England during the years which parted the middle of the reign of Elizabeth from the meeting of the Long Parliament. England became the people of a book, and that book was the Bible. 
