Early Bibles of AmericaGay & Bird, 1663 - 171 pages |
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... quarto of 130 printed leaves without pagination . By exact measurement the leaves are 7 inches by 5 % inches , while the printed pages are 65 inches by 4ğ inches . The text is in double columns with marginal references . The Indian ...
... quarto of 130 printed leaves without pagination . By exact measurement the leaves are 7 inches by 5 % inches , while the printed pages are 65 inches by 4ğ inches . The text is in double columns with marginal references . The Indian ...
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... quarto in size and printed upon excellent paper . The pages measure 63 inches by 4 inches . Genesis and the other books to the end of the Old Testament cover 414 leaves ; and St. Matthew to the end of the New Testament , 126 leaves ...
... quarto in size and printed upon excellent paper . The pages measure 63 inches by 4 inches . Genesis and the other books to the end of the Old Testament cover 414 leaves ; and St. Matthew to the end of the New Testament , 126 leaves ...
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... quarto ; that is , the height and breadth like this page , and with the same type , which we think sufficiently readable to old and young . In thickness , it shall be about the breadth of a hand , for we are willing to take good paper ...
... quarto ; that is , the height and breadth like this page , and with the same type , which we think sufficiently readable to old and young . In thickness , it shall be about the breadth of a hand , for we are willing to take good paper ...
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... quarto , bound in bevelled boards , covered with strong leather , with the covers held together with clasps . It is printed in double columns , with parallel references , and there are short summaries at the head of each chapter . There ...
... quarto , bound in bevelled boards , covered with strong leather , with the covers held together with clasps . It is printed in double columns , with parallel references , and there are short summaries at the head of each chapter . There ...
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... quarto , and resembles the first edition in its general appearance , but differs from it in some respects . Both the title - pages are printed in black , and the type throughout the book is set closer . A portion of the last chapter of ...
... quarto , and resembles the first edition in its general appearance , but differs from it in some respects . Both the title - pages are printed in black , and the type throughout the book is set closer . A portion of the last chapter of ...
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Page 105 - Doth Job fear God for nought ? Hast not thou made an hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he hath on every side ? thou hast blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land. But put forth thine hand now, and touch all that he hath, and he will curse thee to thy face.
Page 104 - Now there was a day when the sons of GOD came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan came also among them. And the LORD said unto Satan, Whence comest thou ? Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.
Page 105 - Hast not thou made an hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he hath on every side? thou hast blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land. 11. But put forth thine hand now and touch all that he hath, and he will curse thee to thy face.
Page 130 - After these things came Jesus and his disciples into the land of Judaea; and there he tarried with them, and baptized. 23 And John also was baptizing in /Enon near to Salim, because there was much water there: and they came, and were baptized.
Page 130 - Israel, therefore am I come baptizing with water. 32 And John bare record, saying I saw the Spirit descending from heaven like a dove, and it abode upon him.
Page 9 - Holy Bible: containing the Old Testament and the New. Translated into the Indian Language and ordered to be printed by the Commissioners of the United Colonies in New England, at the charge, and with the consent of the Corporation in England for the Propagation of the Gospel amongst the Indians in New England.
Page 115 - THE GREEK TESTAMENT, with English Notes, Critical, Philological, and Exegetical, partly selected and arranged from the best Commentators, ancient and modern, but chiefly original ; the whole being...
Page 153 - Your Majesties Government, we cannot but return our most Humble Thanks in this Publick Manner : And, as the Result, of the joynt Endeavours of Your Majesties Subjects there and here, acting under Your Royal Influence, We Present You with this Work, which upon sundry accounts is to be called Yours. " The Southern Colonies of the Spanish Nation have sent home from this American Continent, much Gold and Silver, as the Fruit and End of their Discoveries and Transplantations: That (we confess is a scarce...
Page 56 - Majesty," in order to prevent a prosecution from those in England and Scotland, who published the Bible by a patent from the crown ; or, Cum privilegio, as did the English universities of Oxford and Cambridge. When I was an apprentice, I often heard those who had assisted at the case and press in printing this Bible, make mention of the fact. The late governor Hancock was related to Henchman, and knew the particulars of the transaction.
Page 72 - Newly revised and corrected, according to the Clementine edition of the Scriptures.