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himself to the disciples." This should have been, ^^ essayed'' \ i.e., attempted.
'* Assayed,'' in that sense, is obsolete ; and its use is restricted to the deter- mining the quantity of metal in an ore.
Acts ix. 39. — "Shewing the coats and^^^^^^^^' garments which Dorcas made." Is not a coat a garment ? The Revisers should have said "coats and othei* garments." Acts X. 20. — " Arise, and get thee Actsx. 20.
down." This, unquestionably, should be, *' Ai'ise, and get thou down " ; just as in Eu...th iv. 11, " Do thou worthily." " Thee " Ruthiv. n.
for ^'thou," is an error which is common among the Society of Friends, and is thus spoken of by that greatest of English Grammarians, Goold Brown of Lynn, Mass. U.S. A ; in his " Grammar of English Grammars," Second ed. p. 320 : " The religious sect that entertained a scruple about applying ^ you' to an in- dividual, fell for the most part into an ungrammatical practice of putting ^ thee ' for ^thou'." But how the Revisers Digitized by VjOOQIC 116 THE BISHOPS ENGLISH came to sanction the error is a mystery.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
himself to the disciples." This should have been, ^^ essayed'' \ i.e., attempted.
'* Assayed,'' in that sense, is obsolete ; and its use is restricted to the deter- mining the quantity of metal in an ore.
Acts ix. 39. — "Shewing the coats and^^^^^^^^' garments which Dorcas made." Is not a coat a garment ? The Revisers should have said "coats and othei* garments." Acts X. 20. — " Arise, and get thee Actsx. 20.
down." This, unquestionably, should be, *' Ai'ise, and get thou down " ; just as in Eu...th iv. 11, " Do thou worthily." " Thee " Ruthiv. n.
for ^'thou," is an error which is common among the Society of Friends, and is thus spoken of by that greatest of English Grammarians, Goold Brown of Lynn, Mass. U.S. A ; in his " Grammar of English Grammars," Second ed. p. 320 : " The religious sect that entertained a scruple about applying ^ you' to an in- dividual, fell for the most part into an ungrammatical practice of putting ^ thee ' for ^thou'." But how the Revisers Digitized by VjOOQIC 116 THE BISHOPS ENGLISH came to sanction the error is a mystery.
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