Bible Characters
Book Description
BIBLE CHARACTERS.
A LITEEARY MARVEL.
The characters in Scripture are a literary
marvel.
It is very hard to write characters in one
country to be popular in every land and age.
Especially hard in narrative. (Drama parades
characters by numberless speeches, and auto-
graphs them by soliloquy - an expedient false in
nature,...
MoreBIBLE CHARACTERS.
A LITEEARY MARVEL.
The characters in Scripture are a literary
marvel.
It is very hard to write characters in one
country to be popular in every land and age.
Especially hard in narrative. (Drama parades
characters by numberless speeches, and auto-
graphs them by soliloquy - an expedient false in
nature, but convenient in art.)
Hardest of all to create such world-wide and
everlasting characters in few words, a bare record
of great things said and done.
One test of difficulty is rarity : number, then,
the world-wide characters - if any - in Thacy
dides and Herodotus, and observe whether
Josephus, when he leaves watering the Bible and
proceeds to supplement it, has added one death-
less character to the picture-galleries of Holy
Writ. Shall we carry the comparison higher,
and include poetic narrative ? then go to the top
of the tree at once, and examine the two great
epics of antiquity.
The '-Sneid' - what a stream of narrative!
what fire of description! what march and music of
words ! But the characters ? - -^Eneas mediocre,
his staff lay figures. Dido just interesting
enough to make one angry with -^neas. Per-
haps the strongest colour is in the friendship
and fate of Nisus and Euryalus; and there a
Jewish pen had shown the way.
The less polished but mightier Homer has
achieved the highest feat of genius; he has
made puny things grand, and fertilized pebbles.
He has bewitched even scholars into thinking
his Greeks wiser and braver than the Trojans ;
whereas, if you can shut your ears to his music,
his Greeks were barbarians besieging a civilized
city for a motive and in a manner incompatible
with one ray of civilization. The motive : from
the first dawn of civilization no country with in-
dependent states ever got those states to unite in
leaving home and besieging a distant city to
recover the person of a sohtary adulteress. The
manner: the first dawn of civilization showed men
that cities placed like Troy can always be taken
by one of two methods, blockade or assault.
Product description
If you HATE the book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words, this book is for you.
We don't use OCR'd book technology (Optical character recognition, usually abbreviated to OCR, is the mechanical or electronic translation of scanned images of handwritten, typewritten or printed text into machine-encoded text) to make the kindle version but we bring to you by THE SCANNING OR PHOTOGRAPH PROCESS. So everything you see here is almost same as original version. It may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact.
We hope you enjoy and are satisfied with our book. For more interesting books, please search for `AMA publication'.
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Important Notice!! Please read before you purchase.
- This title has landscape orientation.
- This book was produced from scanning process so you CAN'T use some text feature such as Adjust Font Size, Search or Highlight.
- Since this book does NOT support TEXT adjustment Function, we strongly do not recommend reading it with mobile phone, Android, BB or any small device.
- This book does NOT support Text To Speech Function.
Publisher | AMA Publication |
Binding | Kindle Edition (8 editions) |
Reading Level | Uncategorized
|
# of Pages | 118 |
ISBN-10 | B006UOIP5M |
Publication Date | 01/06/2012 |
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