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" I HAVE regularly and attentively read these Holy Scriptures ; and am of opinion, that this volume, independently of its divine origin, contains more true sublimity, more exquisite beauty, more pure morality, more important history, and finer strains both... "
The Bible in Many Tongues - Page 13
1853 - 192 pages
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Prize Essay and Lectures, Delivered Before the American Institute ..., Volume 47

American Institute of Instruction - Education - 1876 - 148 pages
...which we call from their excellence the Scriptures, con, 3* tain, independently of a divine origin, more true sublimity, more exquisite beauty, more pure...finer strains, both of poetry and eloquence, than could be collected from all other books that were ever composed in any age or in any idiom." I marvel...
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The holy truth, or, The coming reformation

Hugh Junor Browne - 1876 - 474 pages
...commends itself to my reason, and is not contrary to my experience. I admit that it contains, in parts, more true sublimity, more exquisite beauty, more pure...and finer strains both of poetry and eloquence than any other book ; but at the same time, it contains the most childish fables, the most debasing character...
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Anecdotes about the Bible

Bible - 1876 - 100 pages
...true sublimity, more exquisite beauty, more pure morality, more important history, and finer strains of poetry and eloquence, than can be collected from all other books, in whatever age or language they may have been written. The unstrained application of them to events...
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Maxims of the Wise and Good

Maxims - 1876 - 340 pages
...true sensibility, more exquisite beauty, more pure morality, more important history, and finer strains of poetry and eloquence than can be collected from all other books, in whatever age or language they may be written. — Sir William Jones. The smallest dewdrop on the...
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Freemason's Monthly, Volume 7

1876 - 396 pages
...true sublimity, more exquisite beauty, more pure morality, more important history, and finer strains of poetry and eloquence than can be collected from all other books, in whatever age or language they have been written. How thankful we ought to be for the Bible, Heaven's...
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Treasured thoughts of great minds [compiled by J.B.].

Treasured thoughts - 1876 - 296 pages
...origin, contains more sublimity and beauty, more pure morality, more important history, and finer strains of poetry and eloquence, than can be collected from all other books, in whatever age or language they may have been composed. — Sir W. Jones. If we remember what Christ...
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The American Journal of Education, Volume 27

Henry Barnard - Education - 1877 - 982 pages
...true sublimity, more exquisite beauty, more pure morality, more important history, and finer strains of poetry and eloquence, than can be collected from all other books, in whatever age or language they have been written.' Women, especially, should be taught to understand...
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American Journal of Education and College Review, Volume 27

Education - 1877 - 972 pages
...true sublimity, more exquisite beauty, more pure morality, more important history, and finer strains of poetry and eloquence, than can be collected from all other books, in whatever age or language they have been written.' "Women, especially, should be taught to understand...
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The American Journal of Education, Volume 27

Henry Barnard - Education - 1877 - 996 pages
...true sublimity, more exquisite beauty, more pure morality, more important history, and finer strains of poetry and eloquence, than can be collected from all other books, in whatever age or language they have been written.' Women, especially, should be taught to understand...
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Historical Tales for Young Protestants

J H. Crosse - Protestantism - 1878 - 200 pages
...purer morality, • Rom. iii. 25, 26 ; 1 John i. 7 ; Heb. vii. 85 ; John vi. 87. t John XT!. 7, etc. more important history, and finer strains both of poetry and eloquence, than could he collected from all other books that were ever composed in any age . or nation." We will say...
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