 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 365by John Shore Baron Teignmouth - 1806 - 531 pagesFull view - About this book
 | National Sunday school union - 1849 - 346 pages
...contain, independently of a divine origin, more true sublimity, more exquisite beauty, purer morality, more important history, and finer strains, both of...consist are connected by a chain of compositions, which bears no resemblance, in form or style, to any that can be produced from the stores of Grecian, Indian,... | |
 | Churches of Christ - 1848 - 602 pages
..." The scriptures contain, independently of a divine origin, more exquisite beauty, purer morality, more important history, and finer strains both of...the Scriptures consist are connected by a chain of composition which bears no resemblance, in form or style, to any that can he produced from the stores... | |
 | Christopher Anderson - Domestic relations - 1848 - 432 pages
...more true sublimity, more exquisite beauty, purer morality, more important history, and finer strains of poetry and eloquence, than could be collected,...within the same compass, from all other books that were composed in any age, or in any idiom. The two parts of which the Scriptures consist, are connected... | |
 | Samuel Sterling Sherman - Baccalaureate addresses - 1850 - 40 pages
...sublimity, more exquisite beauty, purer moralitj-, more important history, and finer strains of both poetry and eloquence, than could be collected within...that were ever composed in any age or in any idiom." — Quoted in Jlojj'm aris Course of Leyal Study, pp. 65-G. t Rousseau's Works, vol. 5, p. 215, et... | |
 | Alexander Campbell, Charles Louis Loos - 1850 - 734 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 booka, in whatever age or language they may have been written." Even... | |
 | Theology - 1851 - 594 pages
...history, and finer strains of poetry, and eloquence, than could be collected within the same ;ompass from all other books that were ever composed in any...resemblance in form or style to any that can be produced Prom the stores of Grecian, Indian, Persian, or even Arabian earning. The antiquity of those compositions... | |
 | James McFarlane Mathews - Bible - 1851 - 286 pages
...divine original,, more true sublimity, more exquisite beauty, more important history, pure morality, and finer strains both of poetry and eloquence than...that were ever composed in any age or in any idiom," And we should add that, while his judgment is confirmed by tlie testimony of the learned in all professions,... | |
 | Catherine Sinclair - Anti-Catholicism - 1852 - 424 pages
...of their Divine origin, they contain 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 written." Many... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - Quotations, English - 1853 - 442 pages
...contain independently of a divine origin, more true sublimity, more exquisite beauty, purer morality, more important history, and finer strains both of...of compositions which bear no resemblance in form of style, to any that can be produced from the stores of Grecian, Indian, Persian, or even Arabian... | |
 | Thomas Timpson - 1853 - 500 pages
...more true sublimity, more exquisite beauty, purer morality, more important history, and finer strains of poetry and eloquence, than could be collected within...other books that were ever composed in any age or nation." To distribute this blessed book alone, is the glory of the Bible Society. This Society enumerates... | |
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