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Excerpt from The Authorized Version of the Bible and Its InfluenceBible as literature, irrespective of any translation whatever, and, secondly, to examine its diction in the standard Eng lish translation, in order to see whether the choice of words, the mold of sentences, and the harmonious disposition of sounds, are such as deserve the highest praise in comparison with the choicest productions of native English genius.About the PublisherForgo...

Excerpt from The Advancement of Learning, Vol. 1: Book IWhen this book was announced, the admirable edition by Wright (clarendon Press) was extant, but that by Selby (macmillan) had not yet appeared. My object was to make the meaning of Bacon somewhat more accessible by translating his Latin quotations in the text, the orig inals being relegated to the foot of the page, and by furnishing quotations in English for the mere citations of Wright, ...

Excerpt from A First Book in Old English: Grammar, Reader, Notes, and VocabularyThe selections have been made with reference to giving a fairly just, though necessarily incomplete, view of the surroundings, occupations, problems, ideals, and senti ments of our English ancestors. The earlier pieces of both prose and poetry are short, the longer ones that follow either have more sustained interest, or are sup ported by their reference to precedi...

Excerpt from A First Book in Old English: Grammar, Reader, Notes, and VocabularyThe selections have been made with reference to giving a fairly just, though necessarily incomplete, view of the surroundings, occupations, problems, ideals, and senti ments of our English ancestors. The earlier pieces of both prose and poetry are short, the longer ones that follow either have more sustained interest, or are sup ported by their reference to precedi...

Excerpt from Exercises in Old English: Based Upon the Prose Texts of the Author's "First Book in Old English"1. The days and the nights. 2. The fishes and the birds. 3. The trees and the herbs. 4. The images and the likenesses. 5. The signs and the seasons. 6. The years and the days. 7. The men and the animals. 8. The seas and the heavens. 9. The seeds and the fruits. 10. The evenings and the mornings. 11. The spirits and the men. 12. The whal...

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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

Excerpt from The Bible and English Prose Style: Selections and CommentsThe Scriptures everywhere postulate intellect - or the absence of it, but only in a small minority Of instances is it dealt with in what may be called the way Of argument, or reasoning. There is no attempt to convert men from their errors by ratiocinative or philosophical processes. A right state of mind is denoted by such words as understanding, or wisdom. This is conceive...

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Excerpt from Sir Eglamour: A Middle English RomanceThe poem has 113 stanzas, which normally are of 12 lines each. This would make 1356 lines, but the romance in this version has only 1335 (percy, 1291 Thornton, so that 21 lines are lacking. Of these, 6 lines are wanting in stanza 21 3 each in stanzas 67, 70, and 84, and 6, again, in stanza 107.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find mo...

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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...