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The English Bible,—a book which if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power.
The English Bible,—a book which if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power.
Approximate author period: c. 1829 AD · industrial
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- Thomas B. Macaulay
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- Approximate author period: c. 1829 AD · industrial
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- Familiar Quotations, ninth edition (1905 printing) (1905 AD)
On John Dryden. 1828.
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