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Selections from the Bible, for use in schools

John Green Wight · 1900 · Scanned text · Free in the US

50,291 words · about 3 h 31 min to read

Period artwork: Interior of the Bodleian Library, 1845
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Free in the US: this text is in the public domain in the United States; it may still be in copyright elsewhere.

Licence: PD · Library of Congress states the book is in the public domain and free to use and reuse (https://data.labs.loc.gov/digitized-books/README.html); published 1900, public domain asserted for the US only · Library of Congress, Selected Digitized Books (https://www.loc.gov/item/00006736); text via the Common Pile (CC BY 4.0 compilation, per-document rights preserved)

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Author
John Green Wight
Language
English
Published
1900
Length
50,291 words · about 3 h 31 min
Sections
23 reader sections
Text
Scanned text, read from page scans by OCR; may contain errors
Rights
Public domain in the United States

 

Contents (23)
  1. Preface under 1 min
  2. Contents under 1 min
  3. Chapter I about 1 h 16 min
  4. Chapter III about 1 min
  5. Chapter IV about 1 min
  6. Chapter VI about 1 min
  7. CHAPTER VIII. Doth not wisdom cry? and understanding put forth her voice? about 17 min
  8. Chapter IX about 8 min
  9. Chapter XI about 29 min
  10. Chapter XIII about 18 min
  11. Chapter XV about 1 min
  12. Chapter I about 1 min
  13. Chapter II about 1 min
  14. Chapter III about 1 min
  15. Chapter IV about 1 min
  16. Chapter VI about 32 min
  17. Chapter I about 1 min
  18. Chapter III about 2 min
  19. Chapter IV about 2 min
  20. Chapter I about 1 min
  21. Chapter II about 1 min
  22. Chapter III about 1 min
  23. Chapter IV about 14 min
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Preface

The purpose of this little book is to supply a collection of extracts from the Bible, suitable for use in the opening exercises of schools.

The principle of selection has been to choose passages sufficiently brief for the purpose in view, jet complete in thought, and varied and interesting in theme ; and to present only such selections as will best emphasize the moral lessons, the poetry and eloquence, and the sublimities of thought contained in the Bible — in a word, such passages as will appeal to people of every race and creed.

John Gr. Wight.

Contents

Joshua 25

Judges 27

Ruth 29

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