The Bible and English Prose Style: Selections and CommentsAlbert Stanburrough Cook 1903 |
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Pagina xi
... considering the nature of the plastic influence which the Bible has exercised upon English style , it may be well to remind ourselves of some of the more obvious ways in which Scriptural language has been appropriated by English writers ...
... considering the nature of the plastic influence which the Bible has exercised upon English style , it may be well to remind ourselves of some of the more obvious ways in which Scriptural language has been appropriated by English writers ...
Pagina xiii
... consider how little is as it appears- or appears as it is ; look to your own motives , and judge not , lest ye be judged . Here there are no fewer than seven Biblical sentences woven into a tissue all palpitating with generous sympathy ...
... consider how little is as it appears- or appears as it is ; look to your own motives , and judge not , lest ye be judged . Here there are no fewer than seven Biblical sentences woven into a tissue all palpitating with generous sympathy ...
Pagina xx
... Consider the imprecations of the Psalmist . Is it exultation ? Read over the Song of Deborah . Is it reverence , joy , hope , faith , grief , pity ? Each one finds a tongue , and speaks the expressive language of the heart . How should ...
... Consider the imprecations of the Psalmist . Is it exultation ? Read over the Song of Deborah . Is it reverence , joy , hope , faith , grief , pity ? Each one finds a tongue , and speaks the expressive language of the heart . How should ...
Pagina xxii
... consider it attentively . Upon a more leisurely survey of it , I found that it consisted of threescore and ten entire arches , with several broken arches , which , added to those that were entire , made up the number about an hundred ...
... consider it attentively . Upon a more leisurely survey of it , I found that it consisted of threescore and ten entire arches , with several broken arches , which , added to those that were entire , made up the number about an hundred ...
Pagina xxxi
... consider that aspect of the study of the English Bible which makes it interesting to the mere lover of literature . Look first at the diction , and weigh its merits regarded simply as a spec- imen of English prose . The opinion of ...
... consider that aspect of the study of the English Bible which makes it interesting to the mere lover of literature . Look first at the diction , and weigh its merits regarded simply as a spec- imen of English prose . The opinion of ...
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according to thy apostles Aryan beasts behold Biblical Blessed children of Israel children of men Christ Cloth dead rise delight diction earth Edited enemies English Bible English language evil expression fear giveth glory gnomic poetry hand hath Hebrew poetry HIRAM CORSON holy Homer iniquity Introduction price Jerusalem keep thy king kingdom of heaven Latin literary literature Matthew Arnold mercy Moab Moses mouth nature parallel passage poem pray Prometheus Unbound prophets Psalm quicken rejoice Rhetoric rhythm righteous say unto Scripture Semitic languages sentence shalt thou simplicity soul speak speech style supplication things thou art thou hast thou shalt thought thy commandments thy judgments thy law thy name thy people Israel thy precepts thy right thy servant thy statutes thy testimonies thy word tongue translation truth understanding unto the LORD unto thee unto thy verse voice whosoever wicked wisdom
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Pagina 52 - king, knoweth of these things, before whom, also, I speak " freely : for, I am persuaded, that none of these things, are " hidden from him ; for, this thing, was not done in a corner.
Pagina 51 - And when we were all fallen to the earth, I heard a voice speaking unto me, and saying in the Hebrew tongue, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks.
Pagina 48 - If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask Him?
Pagina xxvi - Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces, but let us judge not, that we be not judged. The prayers of both could not be answered. That of neither has been answered fully. The Almighty has His own purposes "Woe unto the world because of offenses: for it must needs be that offenses come, but woe to that man by whom...
Pagina 1 - Then sang Moses and the children of Israel this song unto the Lord, and spake, saying, I will sing unto the Lord, for he hath triumphed gloriously: The horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea. The Lord is my strength and song, And he is become my salvation: He is my God, and I will prepare him an habitation; My father's God, and I will exalt him.
Pagina 19 - Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night; Nor for the arrow that flieth by day; Nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness; Nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday.
Pagina 43 - Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven ; but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.
Pagina 54 - Scriptures; and that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the Scriptures; and that he was seen of Cephas, then of the twelve; after that he was seen of above five hundred brethren at once; of whom the greater part remain unto this present, but some are fallen asleep. After that he was seen of James; then of all the apostles. And last of all he was seen of me also, as of one born out of due time.
Pagina 50 - Which thing I also did in Jerusalem : and many of the saints did I shut up in prison, having received authority from the chief priests ; and when they were put to death, I gave my voice against them. And I punished them oft in every synagogue, and compelled them to blaspheme ; and being exceedingly mad against them, I persecuted them even unto strange cities.
Pagina 47 - Wherefore if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?