...revel in the strange and powerful story of the redemption. In the time of the Puritans, says Green : " England became the people of a book, and that book...as they fell on ears which custom had not deadened to their force and beauty, kindled a startling enthusiasm." To a mind grouping after something worth...

...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'...

...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...

...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...

...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...had not deadened, kindled a startling^ enthusiasm. When Bishop Bonner set up the first six Bibles in St. Paul's "many well-disposed people used much to...

...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...had not deadened, kindled a startling enthusiasm. When Bishop Bonner set up the first six Bibles in St Paul's " many well-disposed people used much to...

...from one," for, as he adds, " the Bible was as yet the one book that was familiar to every Englishman, and everywhere its words, as they fell on ears which custom had not deadened to their force and beauty, kindled a startling enthusiasm." Among the circle to which John Winthrop...

...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...

...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. 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...

...effects than the other. From the middle of the reign of Elizabeth to the meeting of the Long Parliament, England became the people of a book, and that book was the Bible." As a mere literary monument the English version of the Bible remains the noblest example of the English...