United States or Moldova ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
In 1538 a second edition of Coverdale's Bible was printed at Paris, but the Inquisition interfered and committed the whole edition of twenty-five hundred copies to the flames. No perfect copy of Coverdale's version is known to exist, but one lacking the original title-page and first leaf was sold in 1854 for $1725. Another, at the Perkins' sale, in June, 1873, brought $2000.
As you have guessed, I was Coverdale's next friend and second in this affair, and but for the upsetting news of the Tryon tyranny in Carolina, news which reached me on the very day of the meeting, I should there and then have called the slayer to his account.
Though very objectionable from the point of view of Catholic doctrine it was approved by Cromwell as vicar-general, and copies were ordered to be placed in every church . Nearly two years later Coverdale's "Great Bible" with a preface by Cranmer was published. The results of the free use of such translations were soon apparent in the religious discussions that took place in many parts of England.
The jocose tone, it maybe added, seems to have been a characteristic part of the Brook Farm experiment, despite the sober earnest and rapt enthusiasm that accompanied it. The members had their laughing allusions, and talked in a strain of self-ridicule precisely similar to Coverdale's of having bands of music to play for the field-laborers, who should plough in tune.
I say in England, because the first Bible, known as Coverdale's, and several editions of the Testament, translated by Tyndale, had been previously printed abroad in secrecy. Grafton's first edition of the Bible was a reprint of Coverdale and Tyndale's translation, with slight alterations, by one who assumed the name of Thomas Matthew, but whose real name was John Rogers, then Prebendary of St.
The first edition of Cranmer's Bible, the printing of which was begun in Paris in 1538 and completed in London in 1540 the Inquisition having interposed by imprisoning the printers and burning the greater part of the impression is excessively rare. Cranmer's Bible or the Great Bible, as it was called is Tyndale's, Coverdale's and Rogers's translations most carefully revised throughout.
He was a boon companion of the officers' mess; and for a time and purpose posed as Coverdale's friend, and mine. Since I would not tell my poor Dick's story to Richard Jennifer, I may not set it down in cold words here for you. It was the age-old tragic comedy of a false friend's treachery and a woman's weakness; a duel, and the wrong man slain.
It will be remembered that all the English versions of the Bible thus far mentioned were the work of men either already out of favor with the Roman pontiff, or speedily put out of favor on that account. Thirty years after his death; Wiclif's bones were taken up and burned; Tindale was burned. Coverdale's version and the Great Bible were the product of the period when Henry VIII. was under the ban.
The three chief books are Frank Fairleigh , Lewis Arundel , and Harry Coverdale's Courtship . With a touch of Bulwerian romance, something of the sporting novel, and a good deal of the adventure story, Smedley united plenty of pleasant humour and occasionally not a little real wit.
There is not a little sound sport in Kingsley and afterwards in Anthony Trollope: while the novels of Frank Smedley, Frank Fairlegh , Lewis Arundel , and Harry Coverdale's Courtship , mix a good deal more of it with some good fun and some rather rococo romance.
Word Of The Day