 | Edmund Burke - 1876 - 682 sider
...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 English book which wu familiar to every Englishman ; it was read at churches and read at home, and everywhere its... | |
 | John Richard Green - 1875 - 912 sider
...became the people of a book, and that book was the Bible. It was as yet the one English book which was familiar to every Englishman ; it was read at...churches and read at home, and everywhere its words, as they fell on ears which custom had not deadened to their force and beauty, kindled a startling enthusiasm.... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1876 - 694 sider
...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 English book which was familiar to every Englishman; it was read at churches and read at home, and everywhere its... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - 1877 - 894 sider
...England*became the people of a book and that book was the Bible." tt was as yet the one English book which was familiar to every Englishman : it was 'read at...churches, and read at. home, and everywhere its words as they fell on ears which custom had not deadened to their force and beauty, kindled a startling enthusiasm.... | |
 | John Richard Green - 1877 - 920 sider
...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 f« the one English book which was familiar to every Englishman ; it •is read at churches and read... | |
 | John Richard Green - 1878 - 876 sider
...became the people of a book, and that book was the Bible. It was as yet the one English book which was familiar to every 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,... | |
 | 1879 - 506 sider
...times, too, fraught with grand issues. It was the perplexed and chequered but yet great Puritan era. " England became the people of a book ; and that book...was the Bible. It was as yet the one English book which was familiar to every Englishman ; it was read at churches, and read at home, and everywhere... | |
 | Samuel Cox, Sir William Robertson Nicoll, James Moffatt - 1881 - 488 sider
...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... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - 1882 - 1040 sider
...supremacy attained by the Bible. Says an eloquent and graphic writer of modern date, " England*became the people of a book and that book was the Bible." It was as yet the one English book which was familiar to every Englishman : it was read at churches, and read at home, and everywhere... | |
 | Annie Besant - 1883 - 488 sider
...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 was the Bible. It was as yet the one English book which was familiar to every Englishman ; it was read at churches and read at home, and everywhere its... | |
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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. 
