 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
 | Religion - 1813 - 996 pages
...independently of their divine original, more true sublimity, more exquisite beauty, purer morality, more important history, and finer strains both of...the same compass from all other books that were ever • Tacit. Hist. lib. v. 5. t Anniversary Discourse. made by Mr. D'Oyly to specific charges of Sir... | |
 | N. NISBETT - 1802 - 314 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.... | |
 | David Simpson - Apologetics - 1803 - 446 pages
...eloquence, than could be collected within the fame compafs from all other books that were ever compofed in any age or in any idiom. The two parts, of which the Scriptures cor.iiit, are connefted by a chain of compoiitions, which bear no refcmM"nce':i rbrai or ityle to any... | |
 | Charles Henry Wilson - Anecdotes - 1804 - 428 pages
...can be collected from all other books, in whatever age or language they may have been composed. The The two parts of which the Scriptures consist, are...form or style, to any that can be produced from the store? of Grecian, Persian, or even Arabian learning. The anti•quity of those compositions no man... | |
 | Beilby Porteus (bp. of London.) - 1804 - 388 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... | |
 | Charles Henry Wilson - Anecdotes - 1804 - 428 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. •... | |
 | James Wilson - Egypt - 1805 - 452 pages
...both of poetry * and eloquence, than could be collect' ed, within the same compass, from all ' the books that were ever composed, ' in any age or in...the scriptures consist ' are connected by a chain of composi' form, or stile, to any which can be ' produced from the stores of Grecian, ' Indian, Persian,... | |
 | John Mitchell - British - 1805 - 260 pages
...purer morality, more important history, and finer strains both of poetry and of eloquence, than can be collected within the same compass from all other...that were ever composed in any age or in any idiom -\-." Ritual. Incomparable in her intellectual information, Christianity, as an institute of worship,... | |
 | English poetry - 1805 - 1082 pages
...important history, ' and finer strains both ol poetry 4 and eloquence, than could be col-. * lected within the same compass '* from all other books, that were ' ever composed in any age, or in " ' any itfom. The two parts, of '.vvhichthe scriptures consist, are '.connected by a chiiri o't compo-. *... | |
 | James Wilson - Egypt - 1805 - 454 pages
...than could be collect4 ed, within the same compass, from all 1 the books that were ever composed, 4 in any age or in any idiom. The two ' parts of which the scriptures consist 4 are connected by a chain of composi4 tion which bears no resemblance, in. ' form, or stile, to any... | |
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