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diff --git a/apps/windoze/bcowl25/swordapi/mods.conf b/apps/windoze/bcowl25/swordapi/mods.conf deleted file mode 100644 index b902988..0000000 --- a/apps/windoze/bcowl25/swordapi/mods.conf +++ /dev/null @@ -1,66 +0,0 @@ -[Globals] -AutoInstall=./newmods/ - -[Websters] -DataPath=./modules/texts/rawtext/websters/ -ModDrv=RawText -Description=The Webster Bible -About= -=+* see the files 'intro.txt' and 'revision.txt' for more details *+=-\par\par \ -\qc THE \par HOLY BIBLE, \par CONTAINING THE \par OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS, \par IN THE \par \ -COMMON VERSION. \par WITH \par AMENDMENTS OF THE LANGUAGE, \par \ -BY NOAH WEBSTER, LL. D. \par\par ------------- \par NEW HAVEN: \par \ -PUBLISHED BY DURRIE & PECK. \par \ -Sold by HEZEKIAH HOWE & CO., and A. H. MALTBY, New Haven; \par \ -and by N.&J. WHITE, New York. \par\par ------ \par 1833 \par\par \ -Webster Bible Electronic Format.\par \ -PUBLIC DOMAIN\par\par \ -February 1992\par\par\pard \ -Webster Biography:\par \ -Noah Webster: America's first grammarian and founding father of American education.\par\par \ - In 1828 Noah Webster published the 'American Dictionary of the English Language'. This \ -dictionary demonstrates the Christian values which were found in America's educational \ -and scholarly systems. It is from this early dictionary that we have todays popular \ -'Webster Dictionary'. In 1833 Noah Webster, who had mastered 20 languages including \ -Hebrew and Greek, published the King James Authorized Version 'with amendments to the \ -language'. In stating his reasons for producing this version of the Bible, Webster said:\par\par \ - 'In the present version, the language is, in general, correct and perspicuous; \ -... in many passages uniting sublimity with beautiful simplicity. In my view, the general \ -style of the version ought not to be altered. But, in the lapse of two or three centuries, \ -changes have taken place, which, in particular passages, impair the beauty; in others, \ -obscure the sense, of the original languages. ... they do not present to the reader \ -the Word of God. ... My principal aim is to remedy this evil.'\par\par \ -It was with cautious reverence that Webster corrected misused grammar, removed offensive \ -terms and expressions, and substituted commonly understood words for words that had fallen \ -into disuse, or no longer carried the same meaning.\par\par\ - In 1834, the year after completing the Webster Bible, Noah Webster wrote a \ -companion piece titled 'Value of the Bible and Excellence of the Christian Religion - For \ -the Use of Families and Schools'.\par\par\ - Webster, who was considered 'The schoolmaster to a nation' and produced the \ -earliest spellers and textbooks for America's school children, believed Christian religious \ -values and American public education to be inseparable. He believed the Webster Bible to \ -be 'the most important enterprise' of his life, and referred to the Bible as:\par\par \ - '... the chief moral cause of all that is good, and the best corrector of all that \ -is evil, in human society; the best book for regulating the temporal concerns of men, and \ -the only book that can serve as an infallible guide to future felicity.'\par\par \ -Introduction to the Electronic Format:\par \ - Beginning in July of 1991 the task of placing the Webster Bible text in electronic \ -format began. The original purpose was to provide Larry Pierce, who produces the \ -On-Line Bible program, with a more modern *public domain* text, similar in content and \ -style to the AV but with a grammar that would provide better comprehension in todays \ -English.\par\par\ - I plan on maintaining an accurate copy of the Webster text. Anyone finding an \ -error should contact me; Anyone desiring to obtain the latest, most correct text, can find \ -it on the Bible Foundation BBS, or can contact me in the following methods:\par \ - Internet acus10@waccvm.corp.mot.com\par \ - Home phone 602-829-8542\par \ - Address Mark Fuller\par \ - 1129 East Loyola Drive\par \ - Tempe Arizona, 85282\par \ - Bible Foundation http://www.bf.org\par\par \ - I would like to thank the Bible Foundation not only for scanning nearly the entire \ -Webster Bible but for encouraging me to undertake this monumental work; particularly around \ -page 20 when I realized what I had gotten myself into. Special thanks to Jerry Kingery of \ -the Bible Foundation for scanning, and Jerry Hastings for doing some preliminary scan \ -cleaning and making the texts available on the BBS. - - |