The Workmanship of the Prayer book in Its Literary And Liturgical Aspects
The book The Workmanship of the Prayer book in Its Literary And Liturgical Aspects was written by author Dowden, John, 1840-1910 Here you can read free online of The Workmanship of the Prayer book in Its Literary And Liturgical Aspects book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is The Workmanship of the Prayer book in Its Literary And Liturgical Aspects a good or bad book?
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And then how happily mixed and tempered are the Anglo-Saxon and Latin vocables. No undue pre- ponderance of the latter makes the language remote from the understanding of simple and unlearned men. "! A more direct testimony to the literary merits of the English Prayer Book will be found in the words of one himself a great master of English style, Dean Swift. Writing to the Lord Treasurer he remarks : "As to the greatest part of our Liturgy, compiled * It should be remembered that though the dat...e of the Authorised Version, or rather Revision, is 1611, it is in the main given us in the diction of Tyndale and Coverdale. Hence the harmony in language between the Prayer Book and the English Bible. t A Fresh Revision of the English New Testament, p. 1 70. J On the Authorised Version of the New Testament, etc. , p. 33. O 194 WORKMANSHIP OF PRAYER BOOK long before the translation of the Bible now in use, and little altered since, there seem to be in it as great strains of sublime eloquence as anywhere to be found in our language ; which every man of good taste will observe in the Communion Service, that of Burial and other parts.
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