Jonathan Swift Quote

The translators of the Bible were masters of an English style much fitter for that work than any we see in our present writings; the which is owing to the simplicity that runs through the whole.

A Proposal for Correcting, Improving and Ascertaining the English Tongue (ed. 1712)

The translators of the Bible were masters of an English style much fitter for that work than any we see in our present writings; the which is owing...

The translators of the Bible were masters of an English style much fitter for that work than any we see in our present writings; the which is owing...

The translators of the Bible were masters of an English style much fitter for that work than any we see in our present writings; the which is owing...

The translators of the Bible were masters of an English style much fitter for that work than any we see in our present writings; the which is owing...