 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 - Sida 288efter John Shore Baron Teignmouth - 1806Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | English monthly tract society - 1838 - 640 sidor
...Divine origin, more true sublimity, more exquisite beauty, purer morality, more important history, and finer strains both of poetry and eloquence, than...consist, are connected by a chain of compositions which bear no resemblance in form or style to any that can be produced from the stores of Grecian, Indian,... | |
 | John Todd - 1839 - 116 sidor
...divine origin, more true sublimity, more exquisite beauty, purer morality, more important history, and finer strains both of poetry and eloquence, than...consist, are connected by a chain of compositions, which bear no resemblance, in form or style, to any that can be produced from the stores of Grecian, Indian,... | |
 | Miscellaneous extracts - 1839 - 358 sidor
...origin, contains more true sublimity, more exquisite beauty, purer morality, more important history, and finer strains both of poetry and eloquence than...the same compass from all other books that were ever com posed in any age or nation. The application of them to events long subsequent to their publication,... | |
 | Maria Baldwin - 1839 - 364 sidor
...origin, contains more true sublimity, more exquisite beauty, purer morality, more important history, and finer strains both of poetry and eloquence than...the same compass from all other books that were ever com posed in any age or nation. The application of them to events long subsequent to their publication,... | |
 | Henry Dunn - 1839 - 302 sidor
...said it does, " more true sublimity, more exquisite beauty, purer morality, more important history, and finer strains, both of poetry and eloquence, than...collected within the same compass from all other books, which were ever composed in any age or in any idiom," — it would at once push aside all competitors,... | |
 | Henry Dunn - 1839 - 236 sidor
...said it does, "more true sublimity, more exquisite beauty, purer morality, more important history, and finer strains, both of poetry and eloquence, than...collected within the same compass from all other books which were ever composed in any age or in any idiom," — it would at once push aside all competitors,... | |
 | 1839 - 158 sidor
...than can be collected from all other books, in whatsoever age or language they may have been composed. The two parts, of which the Scriptures consist, are connected by a chain of compositions which bear no resemblance in form or style to any that can be produced from the stores of Grecian, Persian,... | |
 | John Greenleaf Adams - 1840 - 286 sidor
...divine origin, more true sublimity, more exquisite beauty, purer morality, more important history, and finer strains both of poetry and eloquence, than...consist, are connected by a chain of compositions, which bears no resemblance, in form or style, to any thing that can be produced from the stores of Grecian,... | |
 | 1842 - 146 sidor
...origin, contains more true sublimity, more exquisite beauty, purer morality, more important history, and finer strains both of poetry and eloquence, than...other books that were ever composed in any age or nation. The antiquity of those compositions no man doubts, and the unstrained application of them to... | |
 | Charles John Shore Baron Teignmouth - 1843 - 548 sidor
...divine origin, " more true sublimity, more exquisite beauty, purer " morality, more important history, and finer strains " both of poetry and eloquence,...are connected " by a chain of compositions, which bear no resemblance " in form or style to any that can be produced from the " stores of Grecian, Indian,... | |
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