 I long that the husbandman should sing portions of them to himself as he follows the plough, that the weaver should hum them to the tune of his shuttle, that the traveller should beguile with their stories the tedium of his journey.  The Church of England: The medieval church - Page 458by Henry Donald Maurice Spence-Jones - 1897Full view - About this book
 | William Lang Paige Cox - 1923 - 360 pages
...language, as if Christ had taught unintelligent mysteries, understood only by some theologians. ... I long that the husbandman should sing portions of...beguile with their stories the tedium of his journey." Erasmus wrote a series of Latin paraphrases of all the books of the New Testament except the Revelation... | |
 | Samuel Parkes Cadman - 1924 - 392 pages
...Turks and Saracens. It may be that they might be ridiculed by many, but some would take them to heart. I long that the husbandman should sing portions of...beguile with their stories the tedium of his journey." 20 Some writers insist that what is wanted to deliver modern 19 Cf. "London Times Literary Supplement,"... | |
 | Francis Brigham Denio - 1925 - 80 pages
...Literatures of Greece and Israel in the Renaissance should sing portions of them to himself as he followed the plough ; that the weaver should hum them to the tune of his shuttle; and that the traveler should beguile the tedium of the road by repeating their stories." Among the... | |
 | Ferdinand Schevill - 1925 - 808 pages
...Christian documents, "that the peasant should sing the Scriptures to himself as he follows the plow, that the weaver should hum them to the tune of his shuttle, and that the traveler should beguile with them the weariness of his journey." This is the subtle evangelical... | |
 | Laurie Magnus - 1926 - 618 pages
...wish that even the weakest woman should read the Gospel — should read the epistles of Paul . . . I long that the husbandman should sing portions of...beguile with their stories the tedium of his journey '. Watson (¿oc. cit.) calls this passage ' a literary Rubicon. The Middle Ages are on one side ; the... | |
 | Philip Wesley Comfort, Walter A. Elwell - 2001 - 1414 pages
...the first step. It may be that they might be ridiculed by many, but some would take them to heart. I long that the husbandman should sing portions of...beguile with their stories the tedium of his journey. But what materials were used by the early translators and copyists who worked so painstakingly over... | |
 | James Brown Scott - 2002 - 1046 pages
...the first step. It may be that they might be ridiculed by many, but some would take them to heart. I long that the husbandman should sing portions of...beguile with their stories the tedium of his journey. Erasmus was, indeed, the apostle of enlightenment — an enlightenment which included both knowledge... | |
 | Philip W. Comfort - 2003 - 350 pages
...the first step. It may be that they might be ridiculed by many, but some would take them to heart, I long that the husbandman should sing portions of...beguile with their stories the tedium of his journey. But what materials were used by the early translators and copyists who worked so painstakingly over... | |
 | Steven R. Fischer - 2004 - 388 pages
...be read and understood, not only by Scots and Irishmen, but also by Turks and Saracens [Muslims] ... I long that the husbandman should sing portions of...that the weaver should hum them to the tune of his shuttle.21 Everywhere in Europe, the Bible began to appear in printed vernacular editions (New Testament/Old... | |
 | Robert Newton Flew - 2002 - 160 pages
...Gospel, should read the Epistles of Paul ... I long that the fanner should sing portions of them as be follows the plough, that the weaver should hum them to the tune of his shuttle" (Erasmus). object of cold speculation, and viewed from without. The Holy Spirit is the Bond by which... | |
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