. Hill's album of biography and art : containing portraits and pen-sketches of many persons who have been and are prominent as religionists, military heroes, inventors, financiers, scientists, explorers, writers, physicians, actors, lawyers, musicians, artists, poets, sovereigns, humorists, orators and statesmen, together with chapters relating to history, science, and important work in which prominent people have been engaged at various periods of time. ycamore trees in the valley. In his literary hibors he wasalso famous for the composition or collection of 3,000 proverbs and1,005 religious
. Hill's album of biography and art : containing portraits and pen-sketches of many persons who have been and are prominent as religionists, military heroes, inventors, financiers, scientists, explorers, writers, physicians, actors, lawyers, musicians, artists, poets, sovereigns, humorists, orators and statesmen, together with chapters relating to history, science, and important work in which prominent people have been engaged at various periods of time. ycamore trees in the valley. In his literary hibors he wasalso famous for the composition or collection of 3,000 proverbs and1,005 religious songs. Of his writings there remain to us only hisbook of Proverbs, a portion of his Psalms, his Ecclesiastes,and his Song of Songs, known in the Bible as Solomons his domestic arrangements he was extravagant, having 700 legiti-mate wives and 300 other women in his houseliold. In his latter yearshe was led by some of his heatlien wives to worship their idols, forwhom he built temples, in which he burned incense and offeredsacrifice. This delusion, it is calculated, overtook him about thethirty-fourth year of his reign and the fifty-fourth of his he ever again turned to the worship of the Supreme God known. In liis writings are purity, imu-ality, and sublimity,leaving no intimation of anythini; Init llie excellence of hischaracter. :^c> KNUUIDLALS DISTINGULSIIED FDK EASE OF EXlKESSIoN. •<^ ^^^^mi^^rt ^•- i •/. Famous Orators.
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