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 131853 - 192 pagesFull view - About this book
| Beilby Porteus - Bible - 1813 - 448 pages
...Holy Scriptures, and am of opinion, that this volume, independently of its divine origin, contains more true sublimity, more exquisite beauty, more pure...both of poetry and eloquence, than can be collected LECTURE I. 21 that which stamps upon them the highest value, that which renders them, strictly speaking,... | |
| William Henry Ireland - English literature - 1815 - 362 pages
...Holy Scriptures, and am of opinion, that this volunje, independently of its divine origin, contains more true sublimity, more exquisite beauty, more pure...eloquence, 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... | |
| William Henry Ireland - English literature - 1815 - 360 pages
...these Holy Scriptures, and am of opinion, that this volume, independently of u. divine origin, contains more true sublimity, more exquisite beauty, more pure...eloquence, 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... | |
| Art - 1815 - 680 pages
...their divine origin, contain, among other excellencies, more •ublimity and beauty, and finer strains of poetry and eloquence, than can be collected from all other books, in what«er «ge or country they гаву have been Negltct of Foot-paths. 22 1 migration from place... | |
| Lindley Murray - Authors - 1816 - 298 pages
...Holy Scriptures ; and I am of opinion, that this volume, independently of its divine origin, contains more true sublimity, more exquisite beauty, more pure...eloquence, than can be collected from all other books, in whatever age or language they may have been composed." wards, and without any additions, compofed... | |
| 1820 - 792 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." parts of higher antiquity, the deeper we... | |
| David Hoffman - Law - 1817 - 398 pages
...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 the other hooks that were ever composed in any... | |
| 1819 - 728 pages
...Holy Scriptures ; and I am of opinion, that this volume, independently of its Divine origin, contains more true sublimity, more exquisite beauty, more pure...eloquence, than can be collected from all other books, in whatever age and language they may have been composed.'— This excellent person no iltiubt received,... | |
| 1819 - 640 pages
...am of opinion, that the volume, independently of its divine origin, contains more sublimity, purer morality, more important history, and finer strains both of poetry and eloquence, than could be collected within the same compass from all other books that were ever composed in any age,... | |
| India - 1818 - 350 pages
...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, withia " the same compass, from all other books that were ever com" posed in anv... | |
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