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  • The struggle of the dissenter is to find a tongue in which to speak: a vernacular that is, as the Thirty-Nine Articles of the Church of England so quaintly yet memorably put it, one “understanded of the people.”

    The Men Who Made England 2010

  • The sample for the Richard Hannay collection has all of The Thirty-Nine Steps and a few chapters of Greenmantle, while the Jack London Collection has a number of stories but none of his major works.

    16 posts from March 2010 2010

  • We hold it most agreeable to this Our Kingly Office, and Our own religious Zeal, to conserve and maintain the Church committed to Our Charge, in the Unity of true Religion, and in the Bond of Peace, the preface to the church's Thirty-Nine Articles of Religion states.

    Centuries-old ties are fraying between English church, state 2011

  • The sample for the Richard Hannay collection has all of The Thirty-Nine Steps and a few chapters of Greenmantle, while the Jack London Collection has a number of stories but none of his major works.

    My Kindle, a review 2010

  • We hold it most agreeable to this Our Kingly Office, and Our own religious Zeal, to conserve and maintain the Church committed to Our Charge, in the Unity of true Religion, and in the Bond of Peace, the preface to the church's Thirty-Nine Articles of Religion states.

    Centuries-old ties are fraying between English church, state 2011

  • In The Thirty-Nine Steps Hannary shelters a spy who has learned of a secret German plan to invade England.

    2009 November 30 « One-Minute Book Reviews 2009

  • The Mercury's live dramatizations of such works as Bram Stoker's "Dracula," John Buchan's "The Thirty-Nine Steps" and Daphne du Maurier's "Rebecca"—with their superb mix of composer-conductor Bernard Herrmann's scoring, Welles's and others' expressive voices, and evocative sound effects—were like marvelous films unfurling inside a listener's mind.

    Rosebud and the Radio Tom Nolan 2011

  • The struggle of the dissenter is to find a tongue in which to speak: a vernacular that is, as the Thirty-Nine Articles of the Church of England so quaintly yet memorably put it, one “understanded of the people.”

    The Men Who Made England 2010

  • In The Thirty-Nine Steps Hannary shelters a spy who has learned of a secret German plan to invade England.

    Great Books About Scotland — A St. Andrew’s Day Celebration « One-Minute Book Reviews 2009

  • The sample for the Richard Hannay collection has all of The Thirty-Nine Steps and a few chapters of Greenmantle, while the Jack London Collection has a number of stories but none of his major works.

    My Kindle, a review 2010

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