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The Holy War, Made by King Shaddai Upon
The Holy War, Made by King Shaddai Upon

Chapter XV · Chapter 15

Chapter 15 of The Holy War, Made by King Shaddai Upon is here in full — 139 sentences across 28 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.

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_Foreman_.
Guilty, my lord.
_Clerk_.
Look to your prisoners, gaoler.
This was done in the morning, and in the afternoon they received the sentence of death according to the law.
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The Holy War, Made by King Shaddai Upon

Chapter XV · Chapter 15

Chapter 15 of The Holy War, Made by King Shaddai Upon is here in full — 139 sentences across 28 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.

Reading 1/27 · 5 reading units · Lines 1–5

Line 1
_Foreman_.
Line 2
Guilty, my lord.
Line 3
_Clerk_.
Line 4
Look to your prisoners, gaoler.
Line 5
This was done in the morning, and in the afternoon they received the sentence of death according to the law.

All words in this reading · 25

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according

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From this reading This was done in the morning, and in the afternoon they received the sentence of death according to the law.

afternoon

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From this reading This was done in the morning, and in the afternoon they received the sentence of death according to the law.

and

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From this reading This was done in the morning, and in the afternoon they received the sentence of death according to the law.

Clerk

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From this reading _Clerk_.

death

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From this reading This was done in the morning, and in the afternoon they received the sentence of death according to the law.

done

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From this reading This was done in the morning, and in the afternoon they received the sentence of death according to the law.

Foreman

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From this reading _Foreman_.

gaoler

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From this reading Look to your prisoners, gaoler.

Guilty

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From this reading Guilty, my lord.

in

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From this reading This was done in the morning, and in the afternoon they received the sentence of death according to the law.

law

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From this reading This was done in the morning, and in the afternoon they received the sentence of death according to the law.

Look

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From this reading Look to your prisoners, gaoler.

lord

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From this reading Guilty, my lord.

morning

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From this reading This was done in the morning, and in the afternoon they received the sentence of death according to the law.

my

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From this reading Guilty, my lord.

of

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From this reading This was done in the morning, and in the afternoon they received the sentence of death according to the law.

prisoners

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From this reading Look to your prisoners, gaoler.

received

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From this reading This was done in the morning, and in the afternoon they received the sentence of death according to the law.

sentence

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From this reading This was done in the morning, and in the afternoon they received the sentence of death according to the law.

the

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From this reading This was done in the morning, and in the afternoon they received the sentence of death according to the law.

they

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From this reading This was done in the morning, and in the afternoon they received the sentence of death according to the law.

This

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From this reading This was done in the morning, and in the afternoon they received the sentence of death according to the law.

to

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From this reading Look to your prisoners, gaoler.

was

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From this reading This was done in the morning, and in the afternoon they received the sentence of death according to the law.

your

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From this reading Look to your prisoners, gaoler.

Chapter 15 of The Holy War, Made by King Shaddai Upon by John Bunyan holds 139 sentences, grouped into 28 reading sections of at most 5 sentences. The text is the public-domain source, unabridged, and the chapter records which sentences cover which part of the work so that nothing is dropped. Every word can be tapped for its pronunciation and dictionary entry.

What does chapter 15 of The Holy War, Made by King Shaddai Upon contain?

Chapter 15 holds 139 sentences of The Holy War, Made by King Shaddai Upon, unabridged, divided into 28 reading sections.

This page carries chapter 15 of The Holy War, Made by King Shaddai Upon by John Bunyan exactly as it stands in the public-domain source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 139 sentences, grouped into 28 sections of at most 5 sentences so that a reader can take the chapter in steady, finishable pieces. The chapter also stores a coverage record mapping every one of its sentences to a part of the work, which is how the edition demonstrates that no line was dropped.

How do I study chapter 15 of The Holy War, Made by King Shaddai Upon?

Work through the 28 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.

Each of the 28 sections in this chapter is short enough to read once, hear once, and then re-read with the vocabulary in view. Tapping a word plays it alone and opens its dictionary entry with IPA, part of speech and meaning, so the reader is never forced to guess a pronunciation from spelling. Working section by section keeps a long chapter from becoming an undifferentiated wall of text, which is the usual reason a reader abandons a work of this period.

Can chapter 15 be read aloud to me?

Yes — every sentence and every individual word in chapter 15 can be played aloud in United States English.

Audio covers the whole chapter: any sentence can be played, and any single word within it can be played on its own. The voice uses United States English. For a work of this period that matters, because spelling is an unreliable guide to pronunciation for vocabulary that has fallen out of daily use, and a learner who guesses wrong tends to keep the error. Hearing the word in its own sentence, and then alone, settles it.

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Yes. All 3227 sentences of Project Gutenberg eBook #395 are kept, with a record of which sentences cover which part.

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Project Gutenberg eBook #395, a public-domain edition. The Project Gutenberg header, footer and licence are removed.

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About 268 minutes of reading across 646 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.

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Vocabulary met early in The Holy War, Made by King Shaddai Upon

Words and structures a reader meets early in The Holy War, Made by King Shaddai Upon, each tappable for pronunciation and meaning.

Similitudes
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Hosea
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London
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Religious
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