 Groat's House to Land's End, as Dante and Tasso once were to the Italians ; that it is written in the noblest and purest English, and abounds in exquisite beauties of mere literary form ; and, finally, that it forbids the veriest hind who never left his...  Essays and Addresses, 1900-1903 - Page 285by Sir John Lubbock - 1903 - 296 pagesFull view - About this book
 | George William Rusden - Māori (New Zealand people) - 1883 - 594 pages
...members by citing a passage in which Professor Huxley hymned its praise as noblest and purest English " woven into the life of all that is best and noblest in English history. ... By the study of what other book could children be so much humanized and in ado to feel that each... | |
 | Richard Salter Storrs - Apologetics - 1884 - 704 pages
...residuum of moral beauty and grandeur. And then consider the great historical fact that, for three centuries, this book has been woven into the life...; that it has become the national epic of Britain, arid is as familiar to noble and simple, from John-o' -Groat's House to Land's End, as Dante and Tasso... | |
 | Justin Dewey Fulton - Anti-Catholicism - 1884 - 226 pages
...residuum of moral beauty and grandeur. And then consider this great historical fact, that for three centuries this book has been woven into the life of all that is best and noble in English history ; that it is written in the noblest and purest English, and abounds in exquisite... | |
 | Nevison Loraine - 1885 - 188 pages
...vast residuum of moral beauty and grandeur. And then consider the great historical fact that for three centuries this book has been woven into the life of...it has become the national epic of Britain, and is familiar to noble and simple from John O'Groat's House to Land's End, as Dante and Tasso were once... | |
 | Frederic William Farrar - Christian life - 1887 - 320 pages
...and even the noble Stoic, Marcus Aurelius, is too high and refined for an ordinary child. For three centuries this book has been woven into the life of all that is best and noblest in English history. It forbids the veriest hind, who never left his village, to be ignorant of the existence of other countries... | |
 | Jabez Thomas Sunderland, Brooke Herford, Frederick B. Mott - Liberalism (Religion) - 1890 - 676 pages
...literature a vast residuum of moral grandeur. And then consider the great historical fact that for three centuries this book has been woven into the life of...it has become the national epic of Britain, and is familiar to noble and simple, from John O'Groat's to Land's End, as Dante and Tasso were once to the... | |
 | Charles Stuart Ross - Education - 1890 - 284 pages
...Bible-reading in schools, he says,— "' And, then, consider the great historical fact that for three centuries this book has been woven into the life of...that is best and noblest in English history; that it is written in the noblest and purest English, and abounds in exquisite beauties of mere literary form;... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - Agnosticism - 1892 - 648 pages
...education, and I venture to repeat what I then said : " Consider the great historical fact that, for three centuries, this book has been woven into the life...the national epic of Britain and is as familiar to gentle and simple, from John o' Groat's House to Land's End, as Dante and Tasso once were to the Italians... | |
 | Church congress - 1892 - 682 pages
...which specially applies to the Old Testament : " Consider the great historical fact that for three centuries this book has been woven into the life of...history, that it has become the national epic of Britain, that it forbids the veriest hind who never left his village to be ignorant of the existence of other... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - Science - 1892 - 648 pages
...noblest in English history ; that it has become the national epic of Britain and is as familiar to gentle and simple, from John o' Groat's House to Land's End, as Dante and Tasso once were to the Italians ; that it is written in the noblest and purest English and abounds in exquisite... | |
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