New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1857-01-29
Jay, MORNING, JANUARY 20, 1857.
1eh ORLEANS Dailp Grtsttrt.
THURSDAY MORNING, JANUARY 20, 1857.
Extracts Of Prleeles. Value.

All partial evil is universal good.h So wrote a
famous poet on certain occasion. We do not propose
to controver the proposition argue in favor Of its
verify but do propose to say, and do say but for
the repeated failure of the mails, which failures have
brought much inconvenience and distress upon this
community, that in all human likelihood, the annexed
priceless extracts from the most wonderful book
published would not have appeared in our columns
this morning. ls t7a9E-A --s F..
The extracts are taken from work Of such sub
Unity and grandeur, beauty and matchlessness, that
the mghtest minds the earth has produced have
acknowledged their utter inability to grapple with
its sublimities, comprehend its grandness or appre
ciate its vast and varied beauties. There s nothing
equal to- or even approaching it, in the wide realms
of literature nor will there ever be long as time
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We have little doubt all our readers have heard Of
the book in question: but apprehend the extracts be-
low will be news to too many Of them. We are sure
universal moral and mental profit will follow universal
perusal With this preliminary we will state that the
work referred to is the BIBLE; the extracts comprise
the first chapter of Genesis and if the mail failures
continue. we contemplate extracting until we finish
the last chapter Of Revelations So, fire away, Mr.
Postmaster General We don't care fig for you or
your contractors having ample supply Of the best
kind of reading material for six months at least:
| THE FIRST BOOK OF MOSES, CALLED GENESIS.
CHAPrER I.-Creation Of Heare, and Earth :; y
In The beginning God created the heaven earth.
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5 G,s God SAID let there be light and there was light
And ID the light that was good: and God divided
5 called light Day, darkness he called
NEh and The EVENING and the morning were The srs day
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And God nude the hHamsnt and divided the waters which
And God called the armament Heaven and the evening
And God said let the the gathered
together unto place. and lie. the dry land appear
gehsr Of the waters called he Seas and God saw that IT
And God said let the earth bring forth the herb
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to give light " upon on the eIr'h : and i was So
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moving creature hath Is and may y above the
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their kind aud every winged fowl after his kind and
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p And God blessed them saying Be fruitful and multiply
and I'LL multiply
q And The evening and the morning the fifth day.
"a Col said the earth bring forth the living
after his kind cattle and creeping thing beast Of the earth
after his kind: and it ..e5. e, ~ s .g.5
cattle after their kind, and thing That creepeh upon tn
his kind and God that it good
26 And God said Let us make in image. after
likeness let them dominion the fish Of the
the fowl of the air. and the cattle and all h
eartland every creeping thing that crsepeh upon til
earth.
81 So God created man in his ow1rnae in the image
God created he him male and female created he Them.
IS. And God blessed them and God said them Be frui
full and multiply, and repeiah The earth and subns il
have dominion the fish of the and the fowl Of tn
lair and living thing that movet upon the earth
% And God said, Behold have given herb bea
ing seed which upon the face Of I'll the ea and every
in the which is the fruit OF yielding seed sha
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3O And every beast of the earth and to every fowl Of til
every thing that creepeih earh wherein s
life, have given every herb for and
81 And God every thing that he had made and. heho
it very good And the evening and the morning Ii