 | William Seward - Anecdotes - 1797 - 752 pages
...contains more fublimity and beauty, more pure " mcralityi 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 com" pofed." In Sir William Jones, India has loft its... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | Bible - 1799 - 204 pages
...recommends the frequent perusal of it as the surest way to make life happy. Sir William Jones finds in it " more true sublimity, more exquisite beauty, more pure...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... | |
 | 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
...THE HOLY SCRIPTURES; AND I AM OF OPINION THAT THE SACRED VOLUME, INDEPENDENTLY OF ITS DIVINE ORIGIN, CONTAINS MORE TRUE SUBLIMITY, MORE EXQUISITE BEAUTY,...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 it... | |
 | 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
...read these Holy Scriptures, and am of opinion that this " Volume, independently of its divine origin, contains more true sublimity, ' more exquisite beauty,...than can be' collected from * all other books, in whatever age or language they may have been composed. * The two parts of which the Scriptures consist,... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1802 - 904 pages
...true lublimity, more excjuHiie beautf, more pure morality, more important hiiiory , and liner (trains both of poetry and eloquence, than can be collected from all other books, in whatever age or language they may have l)Cc4i,compofcd. ^'Tlic two parts, of which the Scriptures confiit,... | |
 | Religion - 1813 - 996 pages
...contain, independently of their divine original, 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 • Tacit. Hist. lib.... | |
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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 of Poetry and Eloquence, than can be'... 
