 I cannot refrain from adding that the collection of tracts, which we call, from their excellence, the Scriptures, contain, independently of a divine origin, more true sublimity, more exquisite beauty, purer morality, more important history, and finer...  The Medical Intelligencer: Containing Extracts from Foreign and American ... - Pagina 4921827Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | 1795 - 486 pagina’s
...eloquence, than could be collected within the fame compafs from all other books that were ever com pol cd in any age, or in any idiom. The two parts, of which the Scriptures conflit, are connected by & chain of compofitions, which bear DO refemblance in form or itylc to any... | |
 | 1796 - 490 pagina’s
...eloquence, than could be collected within the fame compafs from all other books, that were ever compofed in any age or in any idiom* The two parts, of which the Scriptures conftft, are connected by a chain of compositions, which bear no refernblance in form or ftyle to any... | |
 | Joseph Priestley - 1796 - 404 pagina’s
...than " could be colle£led within the fame compafs *' from all other books that were ever comtc pofed in any age, or in any idiom. The " two parts of which the fcriptures confifr, " are connected by a chain of compofitions" (meaning the prophetical books) " which... | |
 | A. M - 1797 - 358 pagina’s
...true sublimity, more exquisite beauty, purer morality, more important history, and finer strains both of poetry and eloquence, than could be collected within...chain of compositions, which bear no resemblance, either in form or stile, to any that can be produced from the stores of Grecian, Indian, Persian, or... | |
 | 1798 - 542 pagina’s
...sublimity, " more exquisite beauty, purer moralily, more im" portant history, and finer strains both of poetry and " eloquence, than could be collected...same ' ' compass from all other books, that were ever com" posed in any age, or in any idiom . The two " parts, of which the scriptures consist, are con"... | |
 | John Todd - 1799 - 200 pagina’s
...true sublimity, more exquisite beauty, purer morality, more important history, and finer strains both of poetry and eloquence, than could be collected,...of compositions, which bear no resemblance, in form or style, to any that can be produced from the stores of Grecian, Indian, Persian, or even Arabian... | |
 | 1799 - 204 pagina’s
...morality, more important history, and finer strains, both of poetry and eloquence, than can be collected from all other books that were ever composed in any age or in any idiom." As Mrs. Hemans lay on her death-bed, she repeated whole chapters of Isaiah with rejoicing lips ; and... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1800 - 1008 pagina’s
...eloquence, than could be collected within the fame compafs from all other books that were ever compofcd in any age, or in any idiom. —The two parts, of which the fcriptures confift, are conncfted by a chain of compofitions, which bear no irfemblance in form or... | |
 | 1800 - 812 pagina’s
...eloquence, than could he collected within the fame compafs from all other books that were ever compofed in any age, or in any idiom. • — The two parts, of which the fcriptures cnnfift, ar« connected by a chain of compofitions, which bear no refcmblance in form or... | |
 | David Morrice - 1801 - 328 pagina’s
...true sublimity, more exquisite beauty, purer morality, more important history, and finer strains both of poetry and eloquence, than could be collected within...that were ever composed in any age, or in any idiom." SIR WILLIAM JONES, in his Asiatic Researches. ,• Armed with this shield, far more invulnerable than... | |
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