 | 1802 - 308 sidor
...fublimity and beauty, more pure morality, more important hiftory, and finer {trains of poetry and eloqucnee than can be collected from all other books, in whatever age or language they may have been compofed." •In Sir William jone-., India has loft its greateft ornament ; the Commentator of its... | |
 | 1813 - 996 sidor
...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.... | |
 | Henry Kett - 1803 - 512 sidor
...contains more Jimplicity and beauty, more pure morality, more important frtftory, and finer Jtrains of poetry and eloquence, than can be collected from...books, in whatever age or language they may have been compofcd." . f Bifhop Hall's Meditations. * Seward's Anecdotes, vol. %vp. 176. CHAPTER CHAPTER IV.... | |
 | 1803 - 516 sidor
...origin, contains more fublimity and beauty, more pure morality, more important hiftory, and finer flrains of poetry and eloquence, than can be collected from...books, in whatever age or language they may have been eompofed." VOL. I. Uu On the Importance of the Doctrines of the Trinity and the Atonement. A GENTLEMAN... | |
 | Beilby Porteus - 1803 - 422 sidor
...fublimity, more exquifite beauty, more pure morality, more important hiflorr, and finer ftrairs both ol poetry and eloquence-, than can be collected from...books, in whatever age or language they may have been compofcd. Birr that which (lamps upon them the higheft value, that which renders them, ftriftly fpeaking,... | |
 | David Simpson - 1803 - 446 sidor
...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,... | |
 | Charles Henry Wilson - 1804 - 428 sidor
...Note. I HAVE regularly and attentively read these Holy Scriptures ; and am of opinion,• that this volume, independently of its divine origin, contains...whatever age or language they may have been composed. • • • i • i / >p. The two parts of which the Scriptures consist, are connected by a chain of... | |
 | Beilby Porteus (bp. of London.) - 1804 - 388 sidor
...J have (says he) regularly and attentively read these Holy Scriptures, and am of opinion, that this volume, independently of its divine origin, contains...whatever age or language they may have been composed. " The two parts, of which the Sciiptures consist, are connected by a chain of compositions, which bear... | |
 | Charles Henry Wilson - 1804 - 428 sidor
...following Note. I HAVE regularly and attentively read these Holy Scriptures ; and am of opinion, that this volume, independently of its divine origin, contains...other books, in whatever age or language they may have befn composed. The two parts of which the Scriptures consist, • are connected by a chain of compositions,... | |
 | Henry Kett - 1805 - 432 sidor
...vol. r, p. 1F6. limplicity and beauty, more pure morality, more important history, and finer strains of poetry and eloquence than can be collected from...-whatever age or language they may have been composed." CHAPTER IV. THE HISTORY OF GREECE. THE country of Greece presents a variety of •the most pleasing... | |
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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 and Eloquence, than can be'... 
