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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wrote one history book about 35 years ago, and have revised it 20 times to satisfy people who misinterpreted it," declared Professor Albert Bushnell Hart 'So before the legislative committee on education yesterday, in a spirited defence of his history text books...
...volume will include a prose translation of "Le Grand Testament", with a parallel text in the original French, and a bibliography. Among the other features of the work will be some of the best known ballades and various poems in translation by Swinburne, Rossetti, Payne, and other well known writers. The author's translation is a more accurate rendering of the original than is to be found in most available verse translations. In his introduction Mr. Beebe has taken exception to Villon's many biographers who have written apologetically of their subject...
...Moffatt's new version of the Bible. Dr. Moffatt felt justified in changing 'ark' to 'barge' and 'lice' to 'mosquitoes' so that the Bible again might become a living document. Is it by the same logic, then, that the Wellesley newspaper uses the word 'asses' when the text properly construes 'she asses...
...evidently are not. For the text reads (Mark x:25), "It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom...
...have no quarrel with your application of the text. But why misquote...