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" The 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... "
Memoirs of the Life, Writings and Correspondence, of Sir William Jones - Page 365
by John Shore Baron Teignmouth - 1806 - 531 pages
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Scribbleomania: Or, The Printer's Devil's Polichronicon. A Sublime Poem

William Henry Ireland - English literature - 1815 - 362 pages
...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 are...compositions which bear no resemblance, in form or style, to auy that can be produced from the stores of Grecian, Persian, or even Arabian learning. The antiquity...
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Scribbleomania; Or, The Printer's Devil's Polichronicon: A Sublime Poem

William Henry Ireland - English literature - 1815 - 362 pages
...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 collected from all other books, in whatever age or language they may have been composed. The...
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An Epitome of the History of the World: From the Creation to the ..., Volume 2

John Hoyland - Bible - 1816 - 432 pages
...more important history, and finer strains, both of poctry and eloquenee, than could be collected in the same compass from all other books, that were ever...age, or in any idiom. " The two parts of which the Seriptures consist, are connected by a chain of compositions, which bear no resemblanee in form, or...
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The British Plutarch: Containing the Lives of the Most Eminent ..., Volume 6

Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 532 pages
...little variation, in a Discourse addressed to the Asiatic Society in 1791, where however he adds ; " The two parts, of which the Scriptures consist, are...compositions which bear no resemblance in form or stile to any that can be produced from the stores of Grecian, Indian, Persian, or even Arabian learning....
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Sequel to the English Reader, Or Elegant Selections in Prose and Poetry ...

Lindley Murray - Authors - 1816 - 298 pages
...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 collected from all other books, in whatever age or language they may have been composed." wards,...
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A Course of Legal Study: Respectfully Addressed to the Students of Law in ...

David Hoffman - Law - 1817 - 398 pages
...contain, independently of a divine origin, more true sublimity, more exquisite beauty, purer morality, more important history, and finer strains both of...could be collected, within the same compass, from all the other hooks that were ever composed in any age or in any idiom." "The two parts of which the Scriptures...
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The Friend of India, Volume 1

India - 1818 - 350 pages
...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, withia " the same compass, from all other books that were ever com" posed in anv age, or in any idiom."*...
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The Gentleman's Magazine, Volume 89, Part 2; Volume 126

Early English newspapers - 1819 - 780 pages
...eloquence, than can be collected from all other books, in whatever language they may have been composed. " 'The two parts of which the Scriptures consist are...of compositions which bear no resemblance, in form and style, to any that can be procured from the stores of Grecian, Persian, or even Arabian learning....
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The Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle, for ..., Volume 89, Part 2

English essays - 1819 - 800 pages
...other books, in whatever language they may have been composed. " 'The two parts of which the Scriplures consist are connected by a chain of compositions which bear no resemblance, in form and style, to any that can be procured from the stores of Grecian, Persian, or even Arabian learning....
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The Gentleman's Magazine, Volume 89, Part 1; Volume 125

Early English newspapers - 1819 - 754 pages
...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 collected from all other books, in whatever age and language they may have been composed.' —...
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