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A Course of Legal Study: Respectfully Addressed to the Students of Law in ... - Page 40
by David Hoffman - 1817 - 383 pages
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Memoirs of the Life, Writings and Correspondence, of Sir William Jones, Volume 2

John Shore Baron Teignmouth - India - 1806 - 566 pages
...be inserted in the memoirs of his life, I transcribe it from his own manuscript in his Bible : — " I have carefully and regularly perused these Holy...strains of eloquence, than can be collected " from all other books, in whatever language they may have been " written." This opinion is repeated with...
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Memoirs of the Life, Writings and Correspondence, of Sir William Jones, Volume 2

John Shore Baron Teignmouth - India - 1806 - 636 pages
...be inserted in the memoirs of his life; I transcribe it from his own manuscript in his Bible : — " I have carefully and regularly perused " these Holy...divine origin, contains more sublimity, ..::.-. " purer •* purer morality, more important history, " and finer strains of eloquence, than can " be collected...
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Memoirs of the Life, Writings and Correspondence, of Sir William Jones, Volume 2

John Shore Baron Teignmouth - Lawyers Great Britain Biography - 1806 - 618 pages
...be inserted in the memoirs of his life, I transcribe it from his own manuscript in his Bible : — " I have carefully and regularly perused " these Holy...independently of its " divine origin, contains more sublimity, 287 ii M " purer morality, more important history, ** and finer strains of eloquence, than can " be...
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Censura Literaria: Containing Titles, Abstracts, and Opinions of ..., Volume 4

Sir Egerton Brydges - Bibliography - 1807 - 464 pages
...from his own manuscript Jn his Bible, though frequently published, cannot be too often repeated : ** I have carefully and regularly perused these Holy...finer strains of eloquence, than can be collected from all pther books, in whatever language they may have been written." At length we arrive at the close...
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Memoirs of the Life, Writings, and Correspondence, of Sir William Jones

John Shore Baron Teignmouth - Asianists - 1807 - 668 pages
...to be inserted in the memoirs of his life, I transcribe it from his own manuscript in his Bible : " I have carefully and regularly perused these " Holy...morality, more " important history, and finer strains of elo" qnence, than can be collected from all other " books, in whatever language they may have " been...
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The Works of Sir William Jones, Volume 2

William Jones - 1807 - 534 pages
...tranfcribe it from his own manufcript in his Bible : — '' I have carefully and regularly perufed " thefe Holy Scriptures, and am of opinion, " that the volume,...independently of its divine " origin, contains more fubiimity, purer mo" rality, more important hiftory, and finer " ftrains of eloquence, than can be...
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Works, Volume 2

Sir William Jones - 1807 - 554 pages
...tranfcribe it from his own manufcript in his Bible :— " I have carefully and regularly perufed " thefe Holy Scriptures, and am of opinion, " that the volume,...independently of its divine " origin, contains more fubiimity, purer mo" rality, more important hiftory, and finer " drains of eloquence, than can be collected...
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Censura Literaria: Containing Titles, Abstracts, and Opinions ..., Volumes 3-4

Sir Egerton Brydges - Bibliographical literature - 1807 - 912 pages
...from his own manuscript in his Bible, though frequently published, cannot be too often repeated : *' I have carefully and regularly perused these Holy Scriptures, and am of opinion,, that the volume, indeT pendently of its divine origin, contains more sublimity, purer morality, more important history,...
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The British Plutarch: Containing the Lives of the Most Eminent ..., Volume 6

Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 532 pages
...manuscript in his Bible, though frequently published, cannot be too often or too emphatically impressed : " I have carefully, and regularly, perused these Holy...and am of opinion that the Volume, independently of it's divine origin, contains more sublimity, purer morality, more important history, and finer strains...
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The British Prose Writers, Volume 22

British prose literature - 1821 - 360 pages
...Testaments is well known : lord Teignmonth transcribed it from his own manuscript in his Bible : " I have carefully and regularly perused these Holy...finer strains of eloquence, than can be collected from all other books, in whatever language they may have been written." This opinion is repeated, with little...
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