I HAVE regularly and attentively read these Holy Scriptures ; and am of opinion, that this volume, independently of its divine origin, contains more true sublimity, more exquisite beauty, more pure morality, more important history, and finer strains both... The Bible in Many Tongues - Page 131853 - 192 pagesFull view - About this book
| A. M - 1797 - 358 pages
...Scriptures, contain, 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 within the same compass from all other books that were ever composed in any age,... | |
| William Seward - Anecdotes - 1798 - 538 pages
...contains mere fublimity and beauty, more " pure morality, more important hiftory, and " finer ftrains of poetry and eloquence, .than " can be collected from all other books, in •** whatever age or language they may have been ** competed." In Sir William Jones, India has... | |
| Asia - 1798 - 542 pages
...contain indepeniently of a divine origin, more true sublimity, more exquisite beauty, purer moralily, more important history, and finer strains both of poetry and eloquence, than could be collected within the same • compass from all other books, that were ever com' posed in any... | |
| John Todd - Conduct of life - 1799 - 200 pages
...Scriptures contain, 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, within the same compass, from all other books that were ever composed in any age... | |
| 1804 - 508 pages
...SCRIPTURES; AND I AM OF OPINION THAT THE SACRED VOLUME, INDEPENDENTLY OF ITS DIVINE ORIGIN, CONTAINS MORE TRUE SUBLIMITY, MORE EXQUISITE BEAUTY, MORE PURE...ELOQUENCE, THAN CAN BE COLLECTED FROM ALL OTHER BOOKS, IN WHATEVER AGE OR LANGUAGE THEY MAY HAVE" BEEN COMPOSED. Here the Inscription might perish, unless... | |
| David Morrice - Moral education - 1801 - 328 pages
...Tracts, they contain, 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 within the same compass from all other books that were ever composed in any age,... | |
| Andrew Fuller - Deism - 1801 - 340 pages
...contains more fublimity and beauty, more " pure morality, more important hiftory, and finer " ftrains of poetry and eloquence, than can be " collected from all other books, in whatever age " or language they may have been compofed." The acknowledgments of ROUSSEAU, likewife,... | |
| N. NISBETT - 1802 - 314 pages
...Holy Scriptures, and am of opinion that this " Volume, independently of its divine origin, contains more true sublimity, ' more exquisite beauty, more...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... | |
| 1803 - 474 pages
...true fublimity, more exquifite beauty, more pure morality, more im. portant hiftory, and finer drains both of poetry and eloquence, than can be collected from all other books, in whatever age or language they may have been compofed. " The two parts of which the Scriptures confift,... | |
| 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 all other books, in whatever age or language they may have been eompofed." VOL. I. Uu On the Importance of the Doctrines... | |
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