The Christian Examiner Volume 14

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1833 Excerpt: ... withdrawn from the collar. ' Put on your frock and jacket and go to your seat. The rest of you may open your books again.' The school breathed again. Paper rustled, feet were carefully moved, the seats slightly cracked, and all things went stilly on as before. Abijah kept his promise. He became an altered boy; obedient, peaceable, studious. This long and slow process of preparing for the punishment was artfully designed by the master gradually to work up the boy's terrors and agonizing expectations to the highest pitch, until he should yield like a babe to the intensity of his emotions. His stubborn nature, which had been like an oak on the hills which no storm could prostrate, was whittled away, and demolished, as it were, sliver by sliver. This we call pictorial writing; and if it does not tempt our readers to go straightway and get the book, it is pretty clear that we cannot prevail on them to do so. Art. VI. -- I. A Complete History of the several Translations of the Holy Bible and New Testament into English, both in MS. and in print; and of the most remarkable Editions of them since the Invention of Printing. By John Lewis, A. M. The Third Edition. To which is now added, a List of various Editions of the Bible, and Parts thereof, in English, from the Year 1526 to the Present Time, extracted from Bishop Newcome's Historical View of the English Biblical Translations ; with a Continuation by Another'Hand. London: 1818. 8vo. pp. 415. 2. The Existing Monopoly, an Inadequate Protection of the Authorized Version of Scripture. Four Letters to the Right Hon. and Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of London; with Specimens of the intentional and other Departures from the Authorized Standard. To which is added a Postscript, containing the Complaints of a London Com...