 | Leander Whitcomb Munhall - 1896 - 264 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... | |
 | 1892 - 760 sidor
...Scriptures contain 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 any age or language [Sir W. Jones]. There are many books which are good and sound, but, like half-pence,... | |
 | 1897 - 308 sidor
...without the Truth, there is no knowing : without the Life, there is no living. Thomas a Kempis. 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... | |
 | John Henry Barrows - 1897 - 424 sidor
...the New Testament is all the wisdom of the world," and with Sir William Jones that "in the Bible are more 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, in whatever age or language they... | |
 | Orison Swett Marden - 1897 - 392 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,... | |
 | Elizabeth Blanchard Cook - 1898 - 204 sidor
...the New Testament is all the wisdom of the world,' and with Sir William Jones that ' in the Bible are more 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, in whatever age or language they... | |
 | Phineas Garrett - 1904 - 896 sidor
...what the ages nay; Silent Wisdom evermore Holds the lamp to light the way. Annie E. Cole. 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 o;- language they... | |
 | Phineas Garrett - 1904 - 890 sidor
...what the ages say; Silent Wisdom evermore Holds the lamp to light the way. Annie E. Cole. 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... | |
 | Howard Agnew Johnston - 1904 - 298 sidor
...than the New Testament." Sir g^?"*" William Jones declares that "in the peat philosophers. Bible are more true sublimity, more exquisite beauty, more pure morality, more important history than can be collected from all other books, in whatever age or language they may have been written."... | |
 | Martin Grove Brumbaugh - 1905 - 376 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, in whatever age or language they have been written." And, if one could summon to his side all the really great souls that have, in dying,... | |
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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'... 
