As we speak, he is just two verses away from completing a handwritten version of the King James Bible.
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Barack Obama took the oath of office on the same King James Bible that had been used by Abraham Lincoln in 1861.
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For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? (King James Bible, Mark 8:36).
The influences on him, he supposed, were mostly Blake, Shakespeare and the King James Bible (though he was Jewish, he did not know Hebrew).
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It was followed over years by the Gettysburg Address, the Constitution and the King James Bible, all arduously hand-typed, full of errors, by Mr Hart.
Thatcher's granddaughter both from the King James Bible, whose prose Mrs.
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Speaking of James, the museum is gearing up for a show next year to commemorate the 400th anniversary of another of the greatest English Renaissance productions, the King James Bible.
He is just two verses away from finishing a handwritten version of the King James Bible, and he was kind enough to join us from his home in Philmont, New York.
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The MP Iris Robinson made headlines internationally for drawing freely on the language of the King James Bible in her description of homosexuality and suggesting that gay people can be "cured".
Expressions from the King James Bible such as "the powers that be", "the apple of his eye", "signs of the times" and a "law unto themselves" are still part of the English language.
King James VI of Scotland, who went on to also become James I of England, attended the Assembly and three years later he commissioned what became known as the King James Bible at the Hampton Court Conference.
Patterson, 63, might seem like an unlikely scribe for the King James version of the Bible.
But it's the story of the King James Version of the Bible, which celebrates its 400th anniversary on May 2nd 2011, that is likely to provide the greatest spread of cultural events.
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