 | 1911 - 452 sidor
...more 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. SIR WILLIAM JONES CHARITY Withhold not a benefit from him who is deserving of it,... | |
 | 1911 - 458 sidor
...steeds, Do thou, if thou art wise, restrain thy passions. CODE OF MANU THE BIBLE The Bible contains more 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... | |
 | 1820 - 980 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... | |
 | Jonathan Weaver - 1913 - 126 sidor
...book? "I am of the opinion," says Sir William Jones, "that the Bible contains more true •sensibility, 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... | |
 | J. J. Morgan - 1917 - 234 sidor
...the Bible contains more exquisite beauty, more 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 may be written." But, the "King of books" was written for that end ; it was written to save our souls from... | |
 | British and foreign sailors' society - 1880 - 398 sidor
...origin, contains 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." CUTTING THE ROCKET LINES! 'HE violent storm, which recently scattered destruction on land and sea from... | |
 | 1993 - 842 sidor
...more true sublimity, more exquisite beauty, more morality, more important history, and finer strains of poetry and eloquence than can be collected from...books in whatever age or language they may have been written." — William James The Bible is the book of all others to read, at all ages, in all conditions... | |
 | Bob Phillips - 1993 - 372 sidor
...Roosevelt I have carefully and regularly perused these Holy Scriptures, and am of opinion that the volume, independently of its divine origin, contains more true sublimity, more exquisite beauty, purer morality, more important history, and finer strains of poetry and eloquence, than could be collected... | |
 | Sir Monier Monier-Williams - 2003 - 306 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 ;" — that such a man should be blest in the work of his hands, and that the seed sown by him should,... | |
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