The Literary Attractions of the Bible, Or, A Plea for the Word of God, Considered as a ClassicC. Scribner, 1858 - 441 pages |
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... literature , legislation , philosophy , social and political institutions . It has led the van of ancient and of modern civiliza- tion in its march around the globe . It has been the great well - spring of living water , out of which ...
... literature , legislation , philosophy , social and political institutions . It has led the van of ancient and of modern civiliza- tion in its march around the globe . It has been the great well - spring of living water , out of which ...
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... do much to save our young people from the evils of that flimsy , superficial literature , which , in the form of the wild , extravagant romance , the love- sick novel , and the run - mad poem , 18 GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS.
... do much to save our young people from the evils of that flimsy , superficial literature , which , in the form of the wild , extravagant romance , the love- sick novel , and the run - mad poem , 18 GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS.
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... literature , which no Greek or Roman author ever filled , or can fill . It has done , for the literature of all civilized nations , what no Greek or Roman book could ever have done . As a Hebrew book , for more than fifteen centuries ...
... literature , which no Greek or Roman author ever filled , or can fill . It has done , for the literature of all civilized nations , what no Greek or Roman book could ever have done . As a Hebrew book , for more than fifteen centuries ...
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... literature of every people , into whose vernacular it has been translated . And at this moment , there is not , perhaps , in the whole world of letters , a more important and effective work going forward , than that work of translation ...
... literature of every people , into whose vernacular it has been translated . And at this moment , there is not , perhaps , in the whole world of letters , a more important and effective work going forward , than that work of translation ...
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... literature of all modern times , excepting that which has been modelled after the Bible , could not furnish such a compend of universal instruction . This , indeed , is one among the many wondrous characteristics of the Bible - its vast ...
... literature of all modern times , excepting that which has been modelled after the Bible , could not furnish such a compend of universal instruction . This , indeed , is one among the many wondrous characteristics of the Bible - its vast ...
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