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pf each at * { separate publications ) are so well done , so well got up , atid so dfceap , that we are right glad at the supply thus put within the reach of Sunday schools . The idea of . putting ; forth a spelling-booH 4 every word and sentence , of which is : taken from the Holy Scriptures / is , to be sure , rather a comical way of endeavouring * to provide for a regular course of Christian education , ' a , nd looks rather as if Fun , Hypocrisy , and Dulness had been sitting Jn committee together at
Bartlett ' s Buildings ., SMH , there is no harm in it beyond a little trifling inconvenience , and a few unintelligibilities . The Bible Xessons are abridged from the Scripture , but simply by omission—the original lanr guage being always presery-ed .. Each part sells for fourpence ; and all are liberaVly adorned with wood-cuts , of which the subjects are generally well chosen . We thank the Society for this real service to the poor children of Great Britain .
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Selections froth the Old Testament ; or , the Religion , Morality * and Poetry of the Hebrew Scriptures , arranged under Heads . By Sarah Austin .
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The Bible ( by which we mean the books of the Old Testament ) deserves to be held in high esteem . It is a treasury of history , poetry , devotion , and morality . There we have history of tfye greatest value— -the history of the creation of the world— which , to say the least , is incomparably superior , to all the cosmogonies of the heathens ;—the history of the earliest periods of the human family—to be found nowhere else , yet essential to a right understanding of the progress of the species ; - —the history of the deluge , which the latest conclusions of science verify , and which the mythologies of all ancient nations recognize ,
but which neither science nor mythology can equal in all that makes a history valuable;—the history of ancient Egypt—a picture , it is true , indistinct in its colours , yet traced in those bold and expressive lines that lead on the imagination to the largest and grandest conceptions ;—the history of God ' s special providence in the care of his chosen people ; —the history of a deliverance as wonderful in its progresses beneficial in its results ; the history of a peop le ^ barbarous at first , yet subsequently civilized beyond the standard of surrounding nations—by
institutions , some of which are worthy even of the imitation of these latter days ;—the history of Mede , Babylonian and Persian : —in a word , the history of patriots unsurpassed , —of elevations and depressions in the scale 6 f society unequalled ; the history of the greatest self-denial , the most entire devotement , —of high-minded generosity , —of all the virtues to imitate ,- ^ -rpf ' all the vices to avoid , accompanied throughout , and in each case , with blame or approval , with blessing or cursing , issuing from that authority , which is so high that none can compete with it , and so powerful , that all its decrees are sure of being executed .
Is poetry , of seryice to mankind ? Does it quicken , rouse , and sustain the generous passions of the s 6 ul ? Does it nerve the warrior ' s arm ? Does , it inflame the patriot ' s soul ? Does it sooth the distressed—consple the bereaved—uphold the dying ? Does it give strength to virtue , and make vice as odiou& as it is baneful ? May it feed the flame of devotion , and raise the soul on the wings of thought frpm earth to Heaven ?—Xfyen is the Bible deserving of high esteem . For there is poetry unparalleled—strains . ; which successive a ^ es Uay ^ ., —«•
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1832, page 853, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1826/page/61/
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