| Andrew Fuller - 1824 - 530 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...age or language they may have been composed." The acknowledgments of Rousseau, likewise, whose taste for fine writing, and whose freedom from prejudice... | |
| David Williamson - 1824 - 400 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...age or language they may have been composed." The testimony of Rousseau is still more remarkable, as he was, though possessed of the strongest powers... | |
| David Williamson - 1824 - 802 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...age or language they may have been composed." The testimony of Rousseau is still more remarkable, as he was, though possessed of the strongest powers... | |
| Robert Grenville Wallace - 1824 - 526 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." It is, therefore, from this unerring source that we learn many things concerning the early history... | |
| Sir William Jones - 1824 - 336 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,... | |
| William Malkin - 1825 - 504 sidor
..." I have carefully and regularly perused these Holy Scriptures, and am of opinion that this volume, independently of its divine origin, contains more...books, in whatever age or language they may have been written." The late pious Bishop Horne thus writes: " The Scriptures are wonderful with respect to the... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1825 - 314 sidor
...attentively read these Holy Scriptures ; and I am of opinion, that this volume, mdependently of iti Divine origin, contains more true sublimity, more...whatever age or language they may have been composed." tears. But though he firmly refused to make use of any other voice than his own, and to appear before... | |
| John Cole - 1826 - 44 sidor
...portion of his daily occupations, and made this note at the end : — I am of opinion, that this volume contains more true sublimity, more exquisite beauty,...eloquence, than can be collected from all other books, in whatsoever age and Ianguage they may have been composed." It also reminds me of men's conscience, which... | |
| 1871 - 592 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 all other books. — Sir William Jones. FAMILY FEATUEES. " Things that accompany salvation." — HEB. vi. 9. ON the... | |
| Andrew Fuller - 1826 - 366 sidor
...from their excellence, the Scriptures, contain, independently of a divine origin, more true sublimity, 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,... | |
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