Word: thee
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dignity hath left him. Wherefore he hath vowed a great deed, and he hath lifted up his voice and cried, "Wherefore hast thou deceived thy church? And it shall come to pass when thou shalt come to the city of the fathers, so shalt I kicketh thee from the seat of elect to the seat of the mighty: Such shalt be mine atonement". And the priest hath made answer: "Wherefore shalt I appear on the appointed day thereof." And the report hath filled all the land, and the appointed day hath come, and the priest doth not arrive...
...conspicuous variation of tempo in response to a variation of mood...His aim was to write a prose independent of every colloquialism, every trick of phrase, every contemporary allusion that might make it obscure or tedious in the future." Thus followed his use of the Biblical "thee" and "thou" and his cultivation of the flowing and repetitive simplicity of oral narrative. The care that Moore lavished on every sentence in "The Brook Kerith" and "Heloise and Abelard" will excite the wonder of the uninitiated. Mr. Morgan's analysis of the results of this superhuman care is indeed subtle and illuminating...
...National Government had resisted brownshirt demands that "Hallelujah'' and "Amen"' be expunged from German religious services, but in Hanover the Governor.of the State made it illegal to sing hymns with "Hebrew names." His examples: Jerusalem, High Tower Thy Glorious Walls, Rejoice, Daughters of Zion, and To Thee, Jehovah, I will Sing...
...transformed the nuptials from a national pageant at Westminster Abbey into a "delightful private affair'' in the chapel of Buckingham Palace. H. R. H. slipped a ring of Welsh gold over Lady Alice's finger, repeating after the Archbishop of Canterbury: "With this ring I thee wed. With my body I thee worship. And with all my worldly goods I thee endow!" At the tomb of the Unknown Warrior in Westminster Abbey that evening, a late-straying canon found a bouquet with a royal card: "From the Duchess of Gloucester." In their own special train...
Grant our supplications, we beseech Thee, through Jesus Christ, our Lord. Amen...