 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
 | 1871 - 592 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. — Sir William Jones. FAMILY FEATUEES. " Things that accompany salvation." — HEB. vi. 9. ON the... | |
 | General reader - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1827 - 246 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 other books that were ever composed in any age... | |
 | 1827 - 392 pages
...origin, contains more sublimity and beauty — more pure morality — »ore important history, and finer of poetry and eloquence, than can be collected from all other books, in whatever age or language they may have been composed." The illustrious buther had so deep an impression... | |
 | John Shepherd - 1828 - 408 pages
...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." • * lection of the works of inspired writers,... | |
 | John Cooke - 1828 - 630 pages
...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 language or age, they may have been composed." C. They have exerted all their faculties,... | |
 | Mary Roberts - 1829 - 414 pages
...characters that ever adorned and dignified human nature; " it contained, independently of a divine origin, more true sublimity, more exquisite beauty, more pure...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... | |
 | William Hales - Bible - 1830 - 992 pages
...contain, independently of a divine origin, more true sublimity, more exquisite beauty, purer momlity, 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... | |
 | Thomas Smith Grimké - Bible - 1831 - 222 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 other books, that were ever composed, in any age,... | |
 | Thomas Timpson - Bible - 1831 - 266 pages
...volume, independent of its divine origin, contains 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 books that were ever composed in any age... | |
 | John Evans - Life - 1831 - 322 pages
...William Jones, "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 books that were ever composed in any age,... | |
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