 | Anthony Johnson - Bible - 1730 - 176 pages
...Dutch Languages. The Defign, as the Preface tells us, was not to make 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 ones, one principal good one, not juftly to be excepted againft. But this glorious Work did... | |
 | Richard Watson - Theology - 1791 - 500 pages
...Duttb Languages. The Delïgn, as the Preface tells us, was not to make a Tranflation »Itogether new, nor yet to make of a bad one a good one, but to make a good one better; or of many ones, one principal good one, not juftly to be excepted againft. But this glorious Work did... | |
 | Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1797 - 430 pages
...James gave order for a 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 beft. Fifty- four learned perfons were appointed for this office by the King,... | |
 | William Nicholson - Natural history - 1809 - 716 pages
...James gave orders for a new one ; not, as the preface expresses it, 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 Fifty-fonr learned persons were appointed for this office by the king, as... | |
 | John Mason Good - 1813 - 764 pages
...James gave order fora new one; not, as the preface expresses it, for a translation altogether new, nor yet to make of a bad one a good one, but to mnke a good one better, or of many good ones one best. Fiftyfour learned persons were appointed for... | |
 | 1815 - 404 pages
...what eourse "they held in this their perusal "and survey of the Bible." "We "never thought," say they, "from "the beginning, that we should "need to make...a good "one better, or out of many good "ones, one prineipal good one, •not justly to be exeepted against. •• . . . And in what sort did these "[translators]... | |
 | Liberalism (Religion) - 1815 - 398 pages
..."never thought," say they, "from "the beginning, that we should "need to makeanewTransIation, "nor yct to make of a bad one a "good one; but to make a good "one bctter, or out of many good "ones, one principal good one, "not justly tobe excepted against. "...... | |
 | 1829 - 632 pages
...translation. King James accordingly issued an order to prepare one. " Not 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." In 1604, fifty-four learned persons were appointed to this most important... | |
 | William Nicholson - Natural history - 1819 - 370 pages
...James gave orders for a new one ; not, as the preface expresses it, 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. Fifty-four learned persons were appointed forthis office by the king, as... | |
 | 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
...quotes a passage from the preface, in which they say, ' they never thought from the beginning that they should need to 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... | |
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Truly, good Christian Reader, we never thought from the beginning that we should need to make a new translation, nor yet to make of a bad one a good one... 
