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Page vi
... Bible now being used daily , and read so long , through- out this kingdom , no questions can be more natural than these -When was this volume first translated from the original , and put into print ? Who was the man that laboured night ...
... Bible now being used daily , and read so long , through- out this kingdom , no questions can be more natural than these -When was this volume first translated from the original , and put into print ? Who was the man that laboured night ...
Page viii
... Bible , or New Testament separately , every minute ; or five hundred and sixty - three thousand four hundred annually ! But the speed at first , or for several years , was slow , when compared with that which followed . For some time ...
... Bible , or New Testament separately , every minute ; or five hundred and sixty - three thousand four hundred annually ! But the speed at first , or for several years , was slow , when compared with that which followed . For some time ...
Page ix
... Bibles and Testaments , what would every other man have thought or said ? The proposal would have been fatal to the ... Bible be so distinguished for the number of its copies , it is equally , or rather more so , by the extent to which ...
... Bibles and Testaments , what would every other man have thought or said ? The proposal would have been fatal to the ... Bible be so distinguished for the number of its copies , it is equally , or rather more so , by the extent to which ...
Page xii
... Bible in Spain ! The Bible in Britain ! Two languages on which the sun shines with no intermission , yet , in point of supply , are they wide as the poles asunder ! What a contrast is presented here , whether we look to Spain herself ...
... Bible in Spain ! The Bible in Britain ! Two languages on which the sun shines with no intermission , yet , in point of supply , are they wide as the poles asunder ! What a contrast is presented here , whether we look to Spain herself ...
Page xv
... of Sussex , while yet entire , with those of Lambeth and St. Paul's , have been consulted in succes- sion ; but to no other collection of Bibles and Testaments has the author been so much indebted as to that of PREFACE . XV.
... of Sussex , while yet entire , with those of Lambeth and St. Paul's , have been consulted in succes- sion ; but to no other collection of Bibles and Testaments has the author been so much indebted as to that of PREFACE . XV.
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Page 631 - For ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace: the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.
Page 316 - Feast of next coming, one Book of the whole Bible of the largest Volume in English, and the same set up in some convenient place within the said Church that ye have cure of, whereas your Parishioners may most commodiously resort to the same and read it...
Page 383 - His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins.
Page 474 - THE / HOLY BIBLE / CONTAINING / THE OLD TESTAMENT / AND / THE NEW / NEWLY TRANSLATED OUT OF THE / ORIGINAL TONGUES / AND WITH THE FORMER TRANSLATIONS DILIGENTLY / COMPARED AND REVISED / BY HIS MAJESTY'S SPECIAL COMMAND / APPOINTED TO BE READ IN CHURCHES / LONDON / Printed by Mark Baskett, / Printer to the King's most / Excellent Majesty; by the Assigns of / Robert Baskett.
Page 472 - Father's hand, under our feet and over our heads, but only the Hebrew of the Old Testament and the Greek of the New.
Page 650 - Truly, good Christian reader, we never thought from the beginning that we should need to make a new translation, nor yet to make of a bad one a good one...
Page 471 - No marginal notes at all to be affixed, but only for the explanation of the Hebrew or Greek words, which cannot, without some circumlocution, so briefly and fitly be expressed in the text.
Page 471 - ... 9. As any one company hath dispatched any one book in this manner, they shall send it to the rest to be considered of seriously and judiciously, for his Majesty is very careful in this point. 10. If any company, upon the review of the book so sent...
Page 650 - THE HOLY BIBLE, conteyning the Old ' Testament and the New : Newly Translated out of the ' Originall Tongues : and with the former Translations ' diligently compared and reuised, by his Maiesties ' speciall Commandement . Appointed to be read in
Page 395 - There is no man that hath power over the spirit to retain the spirit; neither hath he power in the day of death: and there is no discharge in that war; neither shall wickedness deliver those that are given to it.