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... English book , of any character , has had the advantage of being printed in various forms and sizes , to suit the different taste of readers , THE HOLY BIBLE has been still printed in no other form , than that of one single book , which ...
... English book , of any character , has had the advantage of being printed in various forms and sizes , to suit the different taste of readers , THE HOLY BIBLE has been still printed in no other form , than that of one single book , which ...
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... English books . " There still , however , appeared to me another obstacle to the Bible being generally read , with the same degree of facility and satisfaction as other English books ; and that arose from the division of the matter in ...
... English books . " There still , however , appeared to me another obstacle to the Bible being generally read , with the same degree of facility and satisfaction as other English books ; and that arose from the division of the matter in ...
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... English Bible to push this in- vention to an extremity . The beginning of every chapter had been made a fresh paragraph in all the printed bibles ; but the verses were only marked by the number , either in the margin , or in the body of ...
... English Bible to push this in- vention to an extremity . The beginning of every chapter had been made a fresh paragraph in all the printed bibles ; but the verses were only marked by the number , either in the margin , or in the body of ...
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... English authors in such an inconvenient volume as the Bible ? Who would endure to read our best prose writers , if divided into verses like the Bible ? We all know , what answers must be given to these questions . Why then should the ...
... English authors in such an inconvenient volume as the Bible ? Who would endure to read our best prose writers , if divided into verses like the Bible ? We all know , what answers must be given to these questions . Why then should the ...
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... English reader , it helps to make a still closer re- semblance of the prophetical writings . I found this to be a critical attempt of some nicety , and that there might be various opinions and feelings about it . I hope , the experiment ...
... English reader , it helps to make a still closer re- semblance of the prophetical writings . I found this to be a critical attempt of some nicety , and that there might be various opinions and feelings about it . I hope , the experiment ...
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Page 24 - Who can count the dust of Jacob, And the number of the fourth part of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous, And let my last end be like his!
Page 91 - Now therefore be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that ye sold me hither : for God did send me before you to preserve life.
Page 27 - Then Job arose, and rent his mantle, and shaved his head, and fell down upon the ground, and worshipped, and said, Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither : the LORD gave, and the LORD hath taken away ; blessed be the name of the LORD.
Page 351 - Will you to the utmost of your power maintain the laws of God, the true profession of the Gospel, and the Protestant reformed religion established by law ; and will you preserve unto the bishops and clergy of this realm, and to the churches committed to their charge, all such rights and privileges as by law do or shall appertain unto them, or any of them ? ' King or queen :
Page 100 - When the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me; because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him. The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me : and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.
Page 351 - The God of Israel said, the Rock of Israel spake to me, He that ruleth over men must be just, ruling in the fear of God. And he shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun riseth, even a morning without clouds; as the tender grass springing out of the earth by clear shining after rain.
Page 28 - ... or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern. Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.
Page 99 - Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends ; for the hand of God hath touched me.
Page 26 - And it shall come to pass, that when any shall yet prophesy, then his father and his mother that begat him shall say unto him, Thou shalt not live; for thou speakest lies in the name of the LORD: and his father and his mother that begat him shall thrust him through when he prophesieth.
Page 28 - I have no pleasure in them ; while the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars, be not darkened, nor the clouds return after the rain : in the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves...