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Excerpt from Heroes of Israel
The field has already been traversed in some degree by the present writer in his Manual of Bible History in Connection with the General History of the World. But the limits of that book afforded little opportunity of doing what has been attempted here - to draw full - size portraits of some of the great men of the Bible, and to place them as living characters before the eye of the reader. The author is deeply sensible that while it is possible to throw no little light from modern sources on the Scripture narrative, it will'ever retain, in its brevity, simplicity, and graphic power, that incomparable character which in all ages has been felt to be so emphatic an.
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