 | 1815 - 404 pages
...what eourse "they held in this their perusal "and survey of the Bible." "We "never thought," say they, "from "the beginning, that we should "need to make...Translation, "nor yet to make of a bad one a •'good one; but to make a good "one better, or out of many good "ones, one prineipal good one, •not justly... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1820 - 616 pages
...quotes a passage from the preface, in which they say, ' they never thought from the beginning that they should need to make a new translation, nor yet to make of a bad one a good one; but their endeavour and mark was, to make a good one better, or, out of many good ones, one principal... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1820 - 628 pages
...quotes a passage from the preface, in which they say, ' they never thought from the beginning that they should need to make a new translation, nor yet to make of a bad one a good one ; but their endeavour and mark was, to make a good one better, or, out of many good ones, one principal... | |
 | Henry Handley Norris - 1823 - 306 pages
...publication of its design. He pressed it solemnly upon Lord thought from the beginning that we should need a new translation, nor yet to make of a bad one a good one ; (for then the imputation of Sixtus had been true in some sort, that our people had been fed with... | |
 | Bible - 1829 - 414 pages
...what we proposed to ourselves, and what course we held, in this our perusal and survey of the Bible. Truly, good Christian reader, we never thought from...new translation, nor yet to make of a bad one a good one ; (for then the imputation of Sixtus had been true in some sort, that our people had been fed with... | |
 | William Carpenter - Bible - 1830 - 342 pages
...what we proposed to ourselves, and what course we held, in this our perujal and survey of the Bible. Truly, good Christian reader, we never thought from...new translation nor yet to make of a bad one a good one (for then the imputation of Sixtus had been true in some sort, that our people had been fed with... | |
 | Lutheran Church - 1830 - 304 pages
...translation. King Jame* accordingly issued an order to prepare one. " Not for a translation altogether new, nor yet to make of a bad one a good but to make a good one better, or of many good ones one best." In 1604, fifty-four learned persons were appointed to this most important... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - English literature - 1832 - 680 pages
...; and as the Preface to the Authorized Version sets forth, its Authors 'never thought that' they ' should need to make a new translation, nor yet to make of ' a bad one a good one, but to make a good one better, or out of ' many good ones one principal good one, not justly to... | |
 | 1832 - 600 pages
...way; and as the Preface to the Authorized Version sets forth, its Authors ' never thought that' they ' should need to make a new translation, nor yet to make of ' a bad one a good one, but to make a good one better, or out of ' many good ones one principal good one, not justly to... | |
 | Unitarianism - 1833 - 424 pages
...which we had hammered." Still they profess, that " they never thought from the beginning, that they should need to make a new translation, nor yet to make of a bad one a good one ; but their endeavour and mark was to make a good one belter, or out of many good ones one principal... | |
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Truly, good Christian reader, we never thought from the beginning that we should need to make a new translation, nor yet to make of a bad one a good one... 
