 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
 | Christopher Anderson - Domestic relations - 1826 - 582 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... | |
 | Christopher Anderson - Domestic relations - 1826 - 484 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... | |
 | John Cole - Booksellers and bookselling - 1826 - 44 pages
...opinion, that this volume 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 whatsoever age and Ianguage they may have been composed."... | |
 | General reader - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1827 - 246 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... | |
 | Medicine - 1827 - 554 pages
...(rue sublimity, more exquisite beauly, purer morality, more important history, and finer strains botli of poetry and eloquence, than could be collected within...of compositions which bear no resemblance in form of style to any that can be produced ftum the stores of Grecian, Indian, Persian, or even Arabian learning.... | |
 | Beilby Porteus - Bible - 1829 - 348 pages
...than can be collected from all other books, in whatever age or language they may have been composed. " The two parts of which the Scriptures consist are...compositions, which bear no resemblance, in form or stile, to any that can be produced from the stories of Grecian, Persian, or even Arabian learning :... | |
 | Mary Roberts - 1829 - 414 pages
...contained, independently of a divine origin, more true sublimity, more exquisite beauty, more pure morality, more important history, and finer strains both of poetry and eloquence, than could be collected from all other books, in whatever language they might have been written." It was indeed to her a study... | |
 | Thomas Smith Grimké - Bible - 1831 - 222 pages
...contain independently of a divine origin, more true sublimity, more exquisite beauty, purer morality, more important history, and finer strains both of...were ever composed, in any age, or in any idiom." And yet this book, "rich in a more precious treasure, eloquent in a more sublime language, noble by... | |
 | Thomas Timpson - Bible - 1831 - 266 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 unstramed application of them to... | |
 | Education - 1831 - 794 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.'1 Rousseau could not but say, ' The majesty... | |
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