| William Seward - Anecdotes - 1797 - 752 pages
...Scriptures, and am of opinion, that this " volume, independently of its divine origin, '' contains more fublimity and beauty, more pure " morality; more important...finer " ftrains of poetry and eloquence,, than can be ** colle&ed from all other books, in whatever " age or language they may have been com*• pofed."... | |
| Bible - 1799 - 204 pages
...sublimity, more exquisite beauty, more pure morality, more important history, and finer strains, both of poetry and eloquence, than can be collected from all other books that were ever composed in any age or in any idiom." As Mrs. Hemans lay on her death-bed, she repeated... | |
| Andrew Fuller - Deism - 1801 - 340 pages
...Scriptures, and am of opi" ^nion that this Volume, independent of its divine " origin, contains more fublimity and beauty, more " pure morality, more important...books, in whatever age " or language they may have been compofed." The acknowledgments of ROUSSEAU, likewife, whofe tafte for fine writing, and whofe freedom... | |
| 1802 - 308 pages
...beauty, more pure morality, more important hiilory, and finer drains of poetry and eloquence than еда be collected from all other books, in whatever age or language they may have been compofed." • In Sir William Jones, India has loft its greateft ornament ; the Commentator of its... | |
| N. NISBETT - 1802 - 314 pages
...pure morality, more important history, and * finer strains both of Poetry and Eloquence, than can bi collected from * all other books, in whatever age or language they may have been composed. * The two parts of which the Scriptures consist, are connected by a chain of I compositions,... | |
| Theology - 1803 - 516 pages
...origin, contains more fublimity and beauty, more pure morality, more important hiftory, and finer flrains of poetry and eloquence, than can be collected from...books, in whatever age or language they may have been eompofed." VOL. I. Uu On the Importance of the Doctrines of the Trinity and the Atonement. A GENTLEMAN... | |
| Henry Kett - Books and reading - 1803 - 512 pages
...contains more Jimplicity and beauty, more pure morality, more important frtftory, and finer Jtrains of poetry and eloquence, than can be collected from...books, in whatever age or language they may have been compofcd." . f Bifhop Hall's Meditations. * Seward's Anecdotes, vol. %vp. 176. CHAPTER IV. , » **,... | |
| 1803 - 474 pages
...fublimity, more exquifite beauty, more pure morality, more im. portant hiftory, and finer drains both of poetry and eloquence, than can be collected from...books, in whatever age or language they may have been compofed. " The two parts of which the Scriptures confift, are connected by a chain of compositions,... | |
| Beilby Porteus - Bible - 1803 - 422 pages
...fublimity, more exquifite beauty, more pure morality, more important hiflorr, and finer ftrairs both ol poetry and eloquence-, than can be collected from...books, in whatever age or language they may have been compofcd. Birr that which (lamps upon them the higheft value, that which renders them, ftriftly fpeaking,... | |
| David Simpson - Apologetics - 1803 - 446 pages
...contains more fublimity and beauty, more pure mo" rality, more important hiftory, and finer (trains of poetry " and eloquence, than can be collected from all other " books, in whatever language or age they may have been " compofed." And is it not ftrange that thefe contemptible writers,... | |
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