 I cannot refrain from adding that the collection of tracts, which we call, from their excellence, the Scriptures, contain, independently of a divine origin, more true sublimity, more exquisite beauty, purer morality, more important history, and finer...  Asiatick Researches: Or, Transactions of the Society Instituted in Bengal ... - Page 1851798Full view - About this book
 | A. M - 1797 - 358 pages
...independently of a divine origin, more true sublimity, more exquisite beauty, purer morality, more important history, and finer strains both of poetry and eloquence,...the same compass from all other books that were ever composed in any age, or in any idiom. The two parts, of which the scriptures consist, are connected... | |
 | John Todd - Conduct of life - 1799 - 200 pages
...independently of a Divine origin, more true sublimity, more exquisite beauty, purer morality, more important history, and finer strains both of poetry and eloquence,...same compass, from all other books that were ever composed in any age or in any idiom. The two parts of which the Scriptures consist, are connected by... | |
 | David Morrice - Moral education - 1801 - 328 pages
...independently of a divine origin, more true sublimity, more exquisite beauty, purer morality, more important history, and finer strains both of poetry and eloquence,...the same compass from all other books that were ever composed in any age, or in any idiom." SIR WILLIAM JONES, in his Asiatic Researches. ,• Armed with... | |
 | Religion - 1813 - 996 pages
...of their divine original, more true sublimity, more exquisite beauty, purer morality, more important history, and finer strains both of poetry and eloquence,...the same compass from all other books that were ever • Tacit. Hist. lib. v. 5. t Anniversary Discourse. made by Mr. D'Oyly to specific charges of Sir... | |
 | John Mitchell - British - 1805 - 260 pages
...purer morality, more important history, and finer strains both of poetry and of eloquence, than can be collected within the same compass from all other books that were ever composed in any age or in any idiom -\-." Ritual. Incomparable in her intellectual information, Christianity,... | |
 | John Shore Baron Teignmouth - India - 1806 - 636 pages
...divine origin, more true sublimity, more " exquisite beauty, purer morality, more " important histor)r, and finer strains both " of poetry and eloquence,...same compass, from ** all other books that were ever composed ** in any age, or in any idiom. The two " parts of which the Scriptures consist, are " connected... | |
 | John Shore Baron Teignmouth - Asianists - 1807 - 668 pages
...of a divine origin, more true " sublimity, more exquisite beauty, purer mora" lity, more important history, and finer strains " both of poetry and eloquence, than could be 454 " collected, within the same compass, from atl " other books that were ever composed in any " age,... | |
 | David Simpson - Apologetics - 1809 - 410 pages
...independently of a Divine origin, more true sublimity, more exquisite beauty, purer morality, more important history, and finer strains both of poetry and eloquence, than could be collected wi.hin the same compass from all other books that were ever composed in any age, or in any idiom The... | |
 | David Simpson - 1810 - 422 pages
...independently of a divine origin, more true sublimity, n>orp exquisite beauty, purer morality, more important history, and finer strains both of poetry and eloquence,...the same compass from all other books that were ever composed in any age or in any idiom. The Iwo parts of which the Scriptures consist, are connected by... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1812 - 312 pages
...independently of a divine origin, more true sublimity, more exquisite beauty, purer morality, more important history, and finer strains both of poetry and eloquence,...same compass, from all other books that were ever composed in any age, or in any idiom. The two parts, of which the Scriptures consist, are connected... | |
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