 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
 | Dorus Clarke - Sermons, English - 1836 - 228 pages
...contain, independently of their divine origin, more true sublimity, more exquisite beauty, purer morality, more important history, and finer strains both of...that were ever composed in any age, or in any idiom." Much of the intellectual, as well as moral greatness of such men as Bacon, Newton, Boyle, Locke, Hale,... | |
 | David Hoffman - Law - 1836 - 468 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 books that were ever composed in any age or in any idiom.' 'The two parts of which the Scriptures... | |
 | Tracts - 1836 - 506 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... | |
 | Hubbard Winslow - Young men - 1837 - 424 pages
...more 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." The opinion of this distinguished scholar, is also the growing opinion of... | |
 | Maria Baldwin - 1839 - 364 pages
...independent of its divine origin, contains 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 com posed in any age or nation. The application of them to events long subsequent to their publication,... | |
 | Miscellaneous extracts - 1839 - 358 pages
...independent of its divine origin, contains 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 com posed in any age or nation. The application of them to events long subsequent to their publication,... | |
 | Henry Dunn - Teaching - 1839 - 238 pages
...Sir William Jones has well said it does, "more true sublimity, more exquisite beauty, purer morality, more important history, and finer strains, both of...collected within the same compass from all other books which were ever composed in any age or in any idiom," — it would at once push aside all competitors,... | |
 | Henry Dunn - Teaching - 1839 - 302 pages
...William Jones has well said it does, " more true sublimity, more exquisite beauty, purer morality, more important history, and finer strains, both of...collected within the same compass from all other books, which were ever composed in any age or in any idiom," — it would at once push aside all competitors,... | |
 | John Greenleaf Adams - Christian life - 1840 - 286 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 thing that can be produced from the stores of Grecian,... | |
 | 1842 - 146 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... | |
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