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" I have carefully and regularly perused these Holy Scriptures, and am of opinion, that the volume, independently of its divine origin, contains more sublimity, purer morality, more important history, and finer strains of eloquence, than can be collected... "
Memoirs of the Life, Writings, and Correspondence, of Sir William Jones - Page 452
by John Shore Baron Teignmouth - 1807 - 636 pages
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Hamilton Literary Magazine, Volume 16

College student newspapers and periodicals - 1882 - 408 pages
...contains more sublimity, purer morality, more important history, and finer strains of eloquence and poetry than can be collected from all other books, in whatever language they may have been written." Of a truth, never book spake like this book. THEODORE C. BURGESS, '83. AMERIOAN PEBIODICAL LITER A.TUBE....
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Christian ethics and wise sayings, by a presbyter of the Church of England

Christian ethics - 1883 - 296 pages
...origin, contains more sublimity, purer morality, more important history, and finer strains of eloquence, than can be collected from all other books, in whatever language they may have been written. — Sir W. Jones. All the genius and learning of the heathen world, all the penetration of Pythagoras,...
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The book-lover's enchiridion, thoughts, selected and arranged by Philobiblos ...

Book-lover - 1884 - 530 pages
...GENLIS—A1KIN. sublimity, purer morality, more important history, and finer strains of eloquence, than can be collected from all other books, in whatever language they may have been written. DANIEL WYTTENBACH. 1746 — 1820. There is no business, no avocation whatever, which will not permit...
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The Book-lover's Enchiridion: Thoughts on the Solace and Companionship of ...

Alexander Ireland - Books and reading - 1884 - 526 pages
...they contain more sublimity, purer morality, more important history, and finer strains of eloquence, than can be collected from all other books, in whatever language they may have been written. DANIEL WYTTENBACH. 1746 — 1820. There is no business, no avocation whatever, which will not permit...
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Teachings of experience; or, Lessons I have learned on my way through life ...

Joseph Barker - 1885 - 320 pages
...origin, contains more sublimity, purer morality, more important history, and finer strains of eloquence, than can be collected from all other books, in whatever language they may have been written.— Sir William Jones. Teaching better The solid rules of civil government, In their majestic, unaffected...
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Christian dogmatics (concluded)

Henry Donald Maurice Spence-Jones, Joseph Samuel Exell, Charles Neil - Homiletical illustrations - 1889 - 528 pages
...origin, contains more sublimity, purer morality, more important history, and finer strains of eloquence, than can be collected from all other books, in whatever language they may have been written. — Sir William Jones. [14473] There is not a book on earth so favourable to all the kind, and all...
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Seed Corn for the Sower: Or, Thoughts, Themes and Illustrations for the ...

Christopher Perren - Sermons - 1889 - 442 pages
...origin, contains more sublimity, purer morality, more important history, and finer strains of eloquence, than can be collected from all other books, in whatever language they may have been written. — SIR WM. JONES. 43. Bible Eclipsed. If all the rays of mental light which have streamed from the...
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A History of the Church of S. Mary the Virgin, Oxford: The University Church ...

Edmund Salusbury Ffoulkes - Church buildings - 1892 - 548 pages
...origin, contains more sublimity, purer morality, more important history, and finer strains of eloquence, than can be collected from all other books, in whatever language they may have been written 1 " ' Monuments to his memory were decreed him by the Court of Directors of the East India Company,...
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The Bible : Its Meaning and Supremacy

Frederic William Farrar - Bible - 1897 - 388 pages
...origin, contains more sublimity, purer morality, more important history, and finer strains of eloquence, than can be collected from all other books in whatever language they may have been written.' 12. William Cowper, comparing the poor Buckinghamshire lace- worker with Voltaire, says : Yon cottager...
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The Revelation of the Holy Spirit

James Edward Cowell Welldon - Bible - 1902 - 444 pages
...origin, contains more sublimity, purer morality, more important history, and finer strains of eloquence, than can be collected from all other books in whatever language they may have been written." Yet the literary distinction of the Bible is lost to view in the dazzling light of its spiritual pre-eminence....
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