 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1880 - 772 sidor
...Life of Pope. I have carefully and regularly perused these Holy Scriptures, and am of opinion that the ndulgence and toleration purer morality, more important history, and liner strains of poetry and eloquence, than could be collected... | |
 | E S. P - 1880 - 594 sidor
...true 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, inwhatever age or language they may have been written. The unstrained application of them toi events... | |
 | 1881 - 304 sidor
...Bible," writes the distinguished Oriental scholar, Sir William Jones, "and lam of opinion that this volume, independently of its Divine origin, contains more true sublimity, more exquisite beauty, purer morality, more impartial history, and finer strains of poetry and eloquence, than could be collected... | |
 | Levi W. Yaggy, Thomas Louis Haines - 1881 - 984 sidor
...surely contains, 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... | |
 | 1882 - 594 sidor
...— " I. have regularly and attentively perused these Holy Scriptures, and am of opinion that this volume, independently of its Divine origin, contains...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... | |
 | 1882 - 514 sidor
...neverfailing example. She often referred with admiration to the words of Sir William Jones : " The Bible contains more true sublimity, more exquisite beauty,...morality, more important history, and finer strains of poetry and eloquence, than can be collected 40 from all other books, in whatever age or language... | |
 | Glasgow sabbath school union - 1884 - 802 sidor
...was unrivalled — himself the delight of society, and who died on his knees — finds in the Bible "more true sublimity, more exquisite beauty, more...eloquence, than can be collected from all other books that were ever composed in any age, or in any idiom." The profound thinker and acute metaphysician,... | |
 | Richard Salter Storrs - 1884 - 704 sidor
...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... | |
 | 1885 - 420 sidor
...origin, contains more sublimity 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." Addison says, — "After perusing the book of Psalms, let a judge of the beauties of poetry read a... | |
 | Samuel Irenæus Prime - 1885 - 416 sidor
...thought and expression which it contains. Sir William Jones left his recorded opinion that " the Bible contains more true sublimity, more exquisite beauty,...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... | |
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