Edward Harwood

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Edward Harwood, Doctor of Divinity, put the New Testament into "the vest of modern elegance" in 1769. The result was the worst of the florid and general 18th century prose style. Here is the Lord's Prayer:

O thou great governor and parent of universal nature (God) who manifestest thy glory to the blessed inhabitants of heaven--may all thy rational creatures in all the parts of thy boundless dominion be happy in the knowledge of thy existence and providence, and celebrate thy perfections in a manner most worthy of thy nature and perfective of their own! May the glory of thy moral development be advanced and the great laws of it be more generally obeyed. May the inhabitants of this world pay as cheerful a submission and as constant an obedience to Thy will, as the happy spirits do in the regions of immortality.

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  • Warner, Alan. A Short Guide to English Style. OUP, 1963.
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