Faces ami Hands.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 19, 20 December 1884, Page 1 (Supplement)

Faces ami Hands.

Ladies are said to bo wo- king their way into the wnlch businos*, because they pio-luco handsomer faces and. nioro delicate hands than men.

Tiik first translation of any part of the Holy Scriptures into English that was committed to tho press was the New Testament, translated from the Greek by William Tynd&le, with the assistance of John Foyo and William Roye, and printed first m 1526, m octavo. Tyndale published afterwards, m 1530, a translation of {.ho Fivo Books of Mosea, and of Jonah, m 1531, m oot?.vo. An English translation of the Psalter, done from the Latin of Martin Bncer, was also published at Strasburgu m 1530, by Francis Foye, is octavo. And the sf.mo book, together with Jeremiah and tho Song of Moses, were likewise, published m 1534, m duodecimo, by George Foye, some timo .l?e!low of PaterHouse, m Cambridgo. The. first time tho whole Bible appeared m English was m the year 1535, m folio. The translator and publisher \vr3 Milc3 Goverdale, afterwards Bishop of Exeter, who revised Tyndala's version, compared ifc with tho original, and supplied what had been left um translated by TyndalG. Ti; was printed tic Zurich, find dedicated to Kin;* Henry the Ei'.rhi.h. Tina was the Bible, which by Cromwell's injunction of September, 153G, was ordered to bo laid m cb.urcb.G3.