The Port Folio

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JUST PUBLISHED

AT THE

PORT FOLIO OFFICE,

A SECOND EDITION,

MUCH ENLARGED

OF THE

CONVERSATIONS ON THE BIBLE,

BETWEEN

A MOTHER AND HER CHILDREN.

In Two Vols. Price $1 75. Eight plates.

Ir is the object of the author to give a plain but comprehensive view of the sacred writings. The style is adapted to young minds, and the narrative is illustrated by coincidences and explanations derived from modern books; so that it will be novel and interestin; to all who have not studied the subject in the great original. The author indulges a hope that by this popular manner of treating the subject, the gay and the indifferent may be persuaded to peruse these sacred VOlumes; of which it has been said with not less elegance than truth, that they contain "not only the true origin of the world, the rise of the several nations upon the earth, and the first institution of civil government; not only the earliest account of all useful callings and employments: such as gardening, husbandry, pasturage of cattle, &c. but all the politer arts and sciences likewise; such as poetry and music, history and geography, physic, anatomy, and philosophy of all kinds, the arts of war and ornaments of peace, are primarily to be found in this book: that it is, in short, not only a record of the most antient learning, but a magazine of all learning, whatever, and that he who affects to appear in the capacity of a scholar, either as a critic, a chronologer, an historian, a poet, an orator, a disputant, a lawyer, a statesman, a pleader, or a preacher, must not be unacquainted with this INEXHAUSTIBLE FUND." Stackhouse, part 1. ch. IV.