 | 1836 - 462 pages
...may be free ? use one precisely, when we may use another no less fit as commodiously ?" We might also be charged by scoffers with some unequal dealing towards a great number of good English words. Add hereunto, that niceness in words was always accounted the next step to trifling ; and so was to... | |
 | 1839 - 836 pages
...justly fear hard censure, if generally we should make verbal and unnecessary changinge. We might also be charged (by scoffers) with some unequal dealing towards a great number of good English words. For as it is written of a certain philosopher, that he should say, that those logs were happy that... | |
 | Christian life - 1840 - 570 pages
...bring profit to the godly reader. For is the kingdom of God become words or syllables? We might also be charged (by scoffers) with some unequal dealing towards a great number of good English words. So if we should say, as it were, unto certain words, stand up higher, have a place in the Bible always... | |
 | Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna - 1840 - 602 pages
...bring profit to the godly reader. For is the kingdom of God become words or syllables? We might also be charged (by scoffers) with some unequal dealing towards a great number of good English words. So if we should say, as it were, unto certain words, stand up higher, have a place in the Bible always... | |
 | Arthur Tozer Russell - 1860 - 588 pages
...justly fear hard censure, if generally we should make verbal and unnecessary changings. We might also be charged (by scoffers) with some unequal dealing towards a great number of good English words. For as it is written of a certain great philosopher, that he should say, that those logs were happy... | |
 | Joseph Barber Lightfoot - Bible - 1871 - 282 pages
...course would savour ' more of curiosity than wisdom,' and they allege the quaint reason, that they might 'be charged (by scoffers) with some unequal dealing towards a great number of English words,' if they adopted one to the exclusion of another, as a rendering of the same Greek equivalent.... | |
 | Current events - 1873 - 434 pages
...English word in such circumstances would savor "more of curiosity than wisdom," aud that they might be charged (by scoffers) with some unequal dealing towards a great number of English words, if they took one to tbo exclusion of another. To us it would seem that the course which... | |
 | Literature - 1876 - 1072 pages
...may be free, use one precisely, when we may use another no less fit as commodiously ? We might also be charged (by scoffers) with some unequal dealing towards a great number of good English words. For as it is written of a certain great philosopher, that he should say, that those logs were happy... | |
 | Bible - 1881 - 454 pages
...which would now be deemed hardly consistent with the requirements of faithful translation. They seem to have been guided by the feeling that their Version...the English Bible. Still it cannot be doubted that they carried this liberty too far, and that the studied avoidance of uniformity in the rendering of... | |
 | 1881 - 484 pages
...which would now be deemed hardly consistent with the requirements of faithful translation. They seem to have been guided by the feeling that their Version...the English Bible. Still it cannot be doubted that they carried this liberty too far, and that the studied avoidance of uniformity in the rendering of... | |
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English words,' which, without this liberty on their part, would not have a place in the pages of the English Bible. Still it cannot be doubted... 
