 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
 | Alonzo Potter - Best books - 1843 - 352 pages
...contain, independently of a Divine origin, more true sublimity, more exquisite beauty, pure morality, more important history, and finer strains both of...that were ever composed in any age or in any idiom. — Sir William Jones. Home's Introduction. This work is designed as a comprehensive manual of sacred... | |
 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - United States - 1887 - 490 pages
...independently of their 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 have ever been composed in any age or any idiom." If this be half true, the Bible has adaptations unto... | |
 | Lancelot Andrewes (bp. of Winchester.) - 1843 - 124 pages
...contain, independently of a DIVINE ORIGIN, more true sublimity, more exquisite beauty, purer morality, more important history, and finer strains both of...eloquence than could be collected within the same compass tures :— anxiously meditating upon the doctrines, sufferings, and example,* of the divine Redeemer;... | |
 | Practical sketches - Christian life - 1843 - 52 pages
...father pitieth his children, even so the LORD pitieth those who love and fear Him." What condesmore important history, and finer strains both of poetry and eloquence than could he collected within the same compass from all other books that were ever composed in any age, or in... | |
 | Theology - 1855 - 630 pages
...contain, independently of a Divine origin, more true sublimity, more exquisite beauty, purer morality, absolutely every agent in the universe, the one that...does not know what is so, that which is so may be G — Sir W. Jones. Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee. — Psa. cxix.... | |
 | William Suddards - Sermons, English - 1845 - 520 pages
...contain, independently of a divine origin, more true sublimity, more exquisite beauty, purer morality, more important history, and finer strains both of...compositions which bear no resemblance, in form or etyls, to any that can be produced from the stores of Grecian, Indian, Russian, or even Arabian learning.... | |
 | 1858 - 708 pages
...happy. Sir William Jones finds in it " 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 that were ever composed in any age or in any idiom." The gifted... | |
 | Child rearing - 1847 - 346 pages
...contain, independently of a Divine origin, more true sublimity, more exquisite beauty, pure morality, more important history, and finer strains both of...that were ever composed in any age or in any idiom. — Sir William Jones. Home's Introduction. This work is designed as a comprehensive manual of sacred... | |
 | Christopher Anderson - Christian life - 1847 - 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 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... | |
 | India - 1847 - 556 pages
...more important history and finer strains of poetry and eloquence, than could be collected in the some compass, from all other books that were ever composed in any age or nation. The antiquity of these compositions no man doubts, and the unstrained application of them to... | |
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