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
| Peace - 1831 - 670 pages
...independently ol 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 heen written.'1 Other... | |
| William Channing Woodbridge - Bible - 1832 - 32 pages
...exquisite beauty, purer morality, more important history, and finer strains, both of poetry, and of eloquence, than could be collected within the same compass, from all other books which were ever composed, in any age or in any idiom.' Rousseau could not but say : ' The majesty of... | |
| Joseph Fincher - 1832 - 80 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 Ian, guage they may have been written." EXPLANATION... | |
| Unitarianism - 1832 - 702 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 written.' Other... | |
| Stephen Higginson Tyng - 1833 - 284 pages
...independent of its divine origin, contains more true sublimity, more exquisite beauty, purer morality, more important history, and finer strains both of...other books that were ever composed in any age or nation. The antiquity of those compositions no man doubts, and the unstrained application of them to... | |
| Christianity - 1833 - 588 pages
...sublimity, exquisite beauty, pure morality, more important history, and finer strains, both of poetry and of eloquence, than could be collected within the same compass, from all other books that wer« ever composed, in any age, or in any idiom." This testimony has met with a cordial response from... | |
| John Evans - Life - 1834 - 306 pages
...Jones, "independently of a Divine origin, more true sublimity, more exquisite beauty, purer morality, more important history, and finer strains both of...resemblance in form or style to any that can be produced * Vanity of Human Expectations: a TRIBUTE OF RESPECT to the beloved Memory of THE PRINCESS CHARLOTTE... | |
| Thomas Timpson - 1834 - 158 pages
...contain independently of a divine origin, more true sublimity, more exquisite beauty, purer morality, more important history, and finer strains both of...other books that were ever composed in any age or nation. The antiquity of those compositions no man doubts, and the unstrained application of them to... | |
| Apologetics - 1834 - 640 pages
...contain, independently of a divine origin, more true sublimity, more exquisite beauty, purer morality, more important history, and finer strains, both of...within the same compass, from all other books that ever were composed in any age or in any idiom." To this well-known encomium, it seems proper to add... | |
| Christopher Anderson - Child rearing - 1834 - 442 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... | |
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