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Bartlett's Bible Quotations
From the quote aficionado to the historical researcher, fans of Bartlett's will be thrilled to see BARTLETT'S BIBLE QUOTATIONS. Assembled in a new format to delight both researchers and casual readers, BARTLETT'S BIBLE QUOTATIONS is an essential collection of Bible quotes pulled from the prestigious BARTLETT'S FAMILIAR QUOTATIONS. It is both a valuable reference tool and an eminent collection to be browsed through for pleasure. The quotes are organised simply and elegantly, from Genesis to Revelations, and include Psalms, Proverbs, and the Apocrypha. Bartlett's highlights the essential passages of the beloved text (originally from the King James Version), from the educational to the ethical, from stern to stirring, creating a view of the Bible unlike any other.
240 pages, Hardcover
First published October 26, 2005
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About the author
John Bartlett
36 books10 followersAmerican publisher and editor John Bartlett compiled
Familiar Quotations
in 1855 and a Shakespearean concordance in 1894.
From fathers of the Mayflower, the ship of the Pilgrims, he descended. A very bright boy, he read at three years of age in 1823 and finished the entire Bible before nine years of age in 1829. He finished school in 1836 and went to Cambridge, Massachusetts, and work for the university bookstore that served Harvard.
He owned the store before 1849. Stumped persons in the community knew to "ask John Bartlett," for trivia.
He began keeping a commonplace book to answer queries and in 1855 privately printed it first. From 169 authors, those 258 pages contained entries. From the Bible and from the works of the bard came one-third of the book; from the great English poets came lines in most of the balance.
From fathers of the Mayflower, the ship of the Pilgrims, he descended. A very bright boy, he read at three years of age in 1823 and finished the entire Bible before nine years of age in 1829. He finished school in 1836 and went to Cambridge, Massachusetts, and work for the university bookstore that served Harvard.
He owned the store before 1849. Stumped persons in the community knew to "ask John Bartlett," for trivia.
He began keeping a commonplace book to answer queries and in 1855 privately printed it first. From 169 authors, those 258 pages contained entries. From the Bible and from the works of the bard came one-third of the book; from the great English poets came lines in most of the balance.
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June 20, 2014
Not quite sure how to rate a book like this. I only wish the organization had been done more by subject matter than just following the order of the books in the Bible. I do wonder why some verses were chosen over others. Other than that it will go on my reference/memorable quotes bookshelf.
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