 | 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
...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 good one, not justly to be escepted against.' The meaning of these words, especially when coupled with those before quoted, is... | |
 | Arminianism - 1812 - 1006 pages
...new one ; not as the preface exprefles it, for a tranflation altogether new, nor yet to make of a bad one, a good one, but to make a good one better, or of many good ones, one bed. For this office, the king appointed fifty-four learned men, as appears... | |
 | Henry Handley Norris - 1823 - 306 pages
...sort, that our people had been fed with gall of dragons instead of wine, with wheal instead of milk ;) but to make a good one better, or out of many good...principal good one, not justly to be excepted against: that hath been our endeavour, that our mark. To that purpose there were many chosen that were greater... | |
 | Art - 1824 - 436 pages
...accordingly. " Not" (as expressed in the preface) " for a translation altogether new, nor yet to make of a bad one a good one ; but to make a good one better, or of many good ones, one best." By the King's letter to the Archbishop, dated 1 604, it appears that... | |
 | 1824 - 588 pages
...accordingly. " Not (as expressed in the preface) for a translation altogether new, nor yet to make of a bad one a good one; but to make a good one better, or of many good ones, one best." THE great English Bible, which was in use until the reign of King James... | |
 | Bible - 1829 - 414 pages
...sort, that our people had been fed with gall of dragons instead of wine, with whey instead of milk ;) but to make a good one better, or out of many good...principal good one, not justly to be excepted against ; that hath been our endeavour, that our mark. " If you ask what they [the translators] had before... | |
 | William Carpenter - Bible - 1830 - 342 pages
...sort, that our people had been fed with gall of dragons instead of wine, and whey instead of milk ) ; but to make a good one better, or out of many good...principal good one, not justly to be excepted against ; that hath been our endeavour, that our mark. " If you ask what they [the translators] had before... | |
 | 1832 - 600 pages
...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...principal good one, not justly to be excepted ' against: that hath been,' they say, ' our endeavour, that our ' mark.' One of the royal directions was, that... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - English literature - 1832 - 680 pages
...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...good ones one principal good one, not justly to be exceptcd ' against : that hath been,' they say, ' our endeavour, that our ' mark.' One of the royal... | |
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... but to make a good one better, or out of many good ones one principal good one, not justly to be excepted against ; that hath been our endeavour, that our mark. 
