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BibIe BiograpInv.

The lives and characters Of the principal
personages recorded in the sacred writings i
practically adapted to the instruction Of |
youth and private families: together With |
an appendix, containing thirty disserta-
tons on the evidences Of Divine Revela.
ton, from Timpson's key to the Bible
being complete summary Of biblical
knowledge, carefully condensed and com
piled from Scott, Doddridge, Gill, Patrick,
Adam Clarke, Pool, Lowth, Horne, Wall,
Stowe, Robinson, and other eminent wri-
iers on the Scriptures Robert Sears,
Editor Embellished with several hun
dred EngraVings on wood, illustrative Of
Scripture scenes, manners, customs, ETC.
The following notice Of Bible Biography, was
written by the Rev. w. G. Brownies, ID. D., after
careful examination of the volume DR.. b. has
been long known throughout the United States,
90 one OF our most useful, learned, and eloquent d.
vines This candid end impartial review cannot
fail, therefore, to have great weight with all who
are anxious 10 know The real merits of the work
New YoRK, August 9th, Is42.
This is, beyond question, one Of the most ele-
CANT books ever presented to fellow. citizens,
in this Republic. Il is q volume Of 500 pages,
containing about 500 engravlngs OF most inte-
resting character. The paper, the type, the en-
RraVlnRS are ali OF knem Bucn as might enter into
a successful composition with any Of the finest
London publications.. u is superior specimen
Of domestic fabrication, both external and inter-
nal : and It ought, in this respect to Be patronized
by every patriotic citizen. But this is the least
valuable thing about il. The volume piyes us
ners, animals, scenery; and, in addition to state-
ments given in brief, accurate. and elegant de-.
tails, we have every variety Of pictorial exhibitions
which at once amuse, interest, delight and fasci-
nate. In this volume we have, moreover, admira-
bly, we'll written biographies Of all the principal
characters mentioned in the Holy Bible. These
are selected with taste andsinguiar discrimination,
from the best authors extant on the subject. And
there is GROWING excellence in the last hundred
pages, where we possess rich treasury of useful
and religious knowledge, carefully condensed and
compiled from 'TimpSon's Key to the Holy Bible,i
work accessible TO very few.
Mr.. Sears object in presenting this admirable
and beautiful volume, ought to be duly apprecia.
lted by every minister, parent and Sabbath-sehool
teacher. His aim is TO extend the interest Of the
Holy Bible-to place in the most attractive light,
its divine truths and holy precepts, by instruction.
and by cultivating examples. II is, in fact, to
make il paramount, in our youths estimation, to
| all other books, and all other things:-and most
captivating in the eyes of the youthful and aged
the beautiful, the gay, the sober, the thoughtles'
and rejecting. Its designed to set aside, as com
/ paratVely insignificant, the numerous volumes d
| light reading, and utter vanity, and TO dispact
them, with all their fascinating and tawdry ornn
ments Of types, and plates, and wit, by what il
more beautiful in art, and more valuable in truth
and more fascinating in biography and anecdote.
Hence, Mr.. Sears has an honest and imperaliy,
moral claim for patronage and support, on ever
minister and every parent, and every Sabbath
school tbaeher, and on every patriot actuated b,
christian principles have only to add, to all IA
friends, and to the people Of my numerouschaEge
that there is,perhapss no other book, recently from
4 the press, which | would, in preference to thi
beautiful and judicious volume, put into til
hands of my children, to captivate their minds
and WOO them over to the study of the antiquities
! scenery, biography, and divine truths of the Hol
! Bible. Il ought TO be in every christian famil
for its innate value; and in every patriotic faml
as splendid specimen Of our progress in domesti
manufacture, and the advancement of our artist
/. and manufacturers in their rValshp with those q
! Europe. w. C. BROWNLEE.
TO PUBLISHERS AND PRQPRIETORS OF
; / NEWSPAPERS THROUGHOUT THE UNITEl
II STATES AND BRITISH PROVINCES.
The publisher of the above work respectful
requests of newspaper proPrietorss that they wi
copy the advertisement exactly as it ID printed
and where 1t is convenient and practicable, act
agents in receiving subscriptions, or appointin
some friend as substitute in their neigh boThoos
3 To those who viii advertise, and at the sam
: time act as agents for the work, they will be q
forded at the low price Of S so per vol. from
Z single copy to q thousand Volumes ASH |! thJ
8 allowing the handsome sum of ONE DOLLAR 0
e every snhscriber procuredso or copy sold. Will q.
Q every ne Wspaper proprietor in all cur princip,
!, towns and villages throughout the Union order
dozen copies on trial!
!, ROBERT SEARS, Publisher,
) No 100 Nassau street, ~. ".
a November 1892, 20rl2t
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