 | 918 pages
...The extracts are not given as the whole Bible, but as lessons dravvn from it, and ' almost entirely in the hope of their leading to a more general and more profitable perusal of the word of God ;'* they can, therefore, be no more termed a mutilation of the scriptures than the extracts which are... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1853 - 1072 pages
...the Scripture Lessons that they thus marked out particular passages, because they were in the hope of leading to a more general and more profitable perusal of the word of God ; not that they were more important than the rest of the Scriptures, but that they were more on a level... | |
 | James Simpson - Education - 1834 - 270 pages
...misrepresentations, by annexing to the first number of them the following preface. "These selections are offered, not as a substitute for the Sacred Volume itself, but...Scripture, but merely as appearing to be most level to the understandings of children and youth at school, and also best fitted to be read under the directions... | |
 | James Simpson - Education - 1834 - 350 pages
...by annexing to the first number of them the following preface. " These selections are offered, not as a substitute for the Sacred Volume itself, but...introduction to it, in the hope of their leading to amorc general and more profitable perusal of the Word of God. The passages introduced have been chosen,... | |
 | Education - 1835 - 402 pages
...and which is prefixed to the first volume of those extracts: — " These selections are offered, not as a substitute for the sacred volume itself, but...the rest of Scripture, but merely as appearing to be more level to the understandings of children and youth at school, and also best fitted to be read under... | |
 | English periodicals - 1837 - 666 pages
...preface. " These lessons are drawn from the sacred volume, and have been ttOMi piled in the hope of leading to a more general and more profitable perusal...God. The passages introduced have been chosen, not «s being of more importance than the rest of Scripture, but merely as appearing to be most level to... | |
 | Education - 1835 - 458 pages
...St. Luke ; and another, the whole of the Acts of the Apostles, compiled as stated in the preface, " In the hope of their leading to a more general and more profitable perusal of the word of God." The method employed, has been to take the historical parts of the Scripture as a foundation, and to attach... | |
 | James Simpson - Education - 1836 - 308 pages
...annexing to the first number of them the following preface : — " These selections are offered, not as a substitute for the Sacred Volume itself, but...Scripture, but merely as appearing to be most level to the understandings of children and youth at school, and also best fitted to be read under the directions... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1836 - 610 pages
...substitute for the sacred volume itself, but as an introduction to it, in the hope of their leading to a more profitable perusal of the Word of God. The passages...importance than the rest of Scripture, but merely as being more level to the understandings of children and youth at school, and also best fitted to be... | |
 | English literature - 1836 - 1184 pages
...annexing to the first number of them the following preface :—" These selections are offered, not as a substitute for the sacred volume itself, but...introduction to it, in the hope of their leading to a more profitable perusal of the Word of God. The passages introduced have been chosen, not as being of more... | |
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These selections are offered, not as a substitute for the Sacred Volume itself, but as an introduction to it, in the hope of their leading to a more general and more profitable perusal of the Word of God. 
