 | William Seward - 1797 - 752 sivua
...contains more fublimity and beauty, more pure " mcralityi more important hiftory, and finer *' ftrains of poetry and eloquence, than can be ** collected from all other books, in whatever " age or language they may have been com" pofed." In Sir William Jones, India has loft its greateft... | |
 | A. M - 1797 - 358 sivua
...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,... | |
 | 1799 - 204 sivua
...to make life happy. Sir William Jones finds in it " more true sublimity, more exquisite beauty, more pure morality, more important history, and finer strains,...eloquence, than can be collected from all other books that were ever composed in any age or in any idiom." As Mrs. Hemans lay on her death-bed, she repeated... | |
 | John Todd - 1799 - 200 sivua
...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... | |
 | 1804 - 508 sivua
...VOLUME, INDEPENDENTLY OF ITS DIVINE ORIGIN, CONTAINS MORE TRUE SUBLIMITY, MORE EXQUISITE BEAUTY, MORE PURE MORALITY, MORE IMPORTANT HISTORY, AND FINER STRAINS...CAN BE COLLECTED FROM ALL OTHER BOOKS, IN WHATEVER AGE OR LANGUAGE THEY MAY HAVE" BEEN COMPOSED. Here the Inscription might perish, unless it should be... | |
 | Andrew Fuller - 1801 - 340 sivua
...contains more fublimity and beauty, more " pure morality, more important hiftory, and finer " ftrains of poetry and eloquence, than can be " collected from all other books, in whatever age " or language they may have been compofed." The acknowledgments of ROUSSEAU, likewife, whofe tafte... | |
 | David Morrice - 1801 - 328 sivua
...Tracts, they 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,... | |
 | N. NISBETT - 1802 - 314 sivua
...Volume, independently of its divine origin, contains more true sublimity, ' more exquisite beauty, more pure morality, more important history, and * finer...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 connected... | |
 | 1813 - 996 sivua
...contain, independently of their divine original, 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 • Tacit. Hist. lib.... | |
 | David Simpson - 1803 - 446 sivua
...contains more fublimity and beauty, more pure mo" rality, more important hiftory, and finer ftrains of poetry " and eloquence, than can be collected from all other " books, in whatever language or age they may have been " compofed." And is it not ftrange that thefe contemptible writers, as THOMAS... | |
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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 of Poetry... 
