 I have regularly and attentively perused these 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...  The Blade and the Ear: a Book for Young Men - Pagina 155door Blade - 1865 - 224 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | William Seward - 1797 - 752 pagina’s
...contains more fublimity and beauty, more pure " mcralityi more important hiftory, and finer *' ftrains of poetry and eloquence, than can be ** collected from all other books, in whatever " age or language they may have been com" pofed." In Sir William Jones, India has loft its greateft... | |
 | 1799 - 204 pagina’s
...sublimity, more exquisite beauty, more pure 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... | |
 | Andrew Fuller - 1801 - 340 pagina’s
...contains more fublimity and beauty, more " pure morality, more important hiftory, and finer " ftrains of poetry and eloquence, than can be " collected from all other books, in whatever age " or language they may have been compofed." The acknowledgments of ROUSSEAU, likewife, whofe tafte... | |
 | 1802 - 904 pagina’s
...lublimity, more excjuHiie beautf, more pure morality, more important hiiiory , and liner (trains both of poetry and eloquence, than can be collected from all other books, in whatever age or language they may have l)Cc4i,compofcd. ^'Tlic two parts, of which the Scriptures confiit, ar«... | |
 | N. NISBETT - 1802 - 314 pagina’s
...sublimity, ' more exquisite beauty, more pure morality, more important history, and * finer strains both of Poetry and Eloquence, than can be' collected from * all other books, in whatever age or language they may have been composed. * The two parts of which the Scriptures consist, are connected... | |
 | David Simpson - 1803 - 446 pagina’s
...contains more fublimity and beauty, more pure mo" rality, more important hiftory, and finer ftrains of poetry " and eloquence, than can be collected from all other " books, in whatever language or age they may have been " compofed." And is it not ftrange that thefe contemptible writers, as THOMAS... | |
 | Henry Kett - 1803 - 512 pagina’s
...contains more Jimplicity and beauty, more pure morality, more important frtftory, and finer Jtrains of poetry and eloquence, than can be collected from all other books, in whatever age or language they may have been compofcd." . f Bifhop Hall's Meditations. * Seward's Anecdotes,... | |
 | 1803 - 474 pagina’s
...fublimity, more exquifite beauty, more pure morality, more im. portant hiftory, and finer drains both of poetry and eloquence, than can be collected from all other books, in whatever age or language they may have been compofed. " The two parts of which the Scriptures confift, are connected... | |
 | 1803 - 516 pagina’s
...origin, contains more fublimity and beauty, more pure morality, more important hiftory, and finer flrains of poetry and eloquence, than can be collected from all other books, in whatever age or language they may have been eompofed." VOL. I. Uu On the Importance of the Doctrines of the... | |
 | Beilby Porteus - 1803 - 422 pagina’s
...fublimity, more exquifite beauty, more pure morality, more important hiflorr, and finer ftrairs both ol poetry and eloquence-, than can be collected from all other books, in whatever age or language they may have been compofcd. Birr that which (lamps upon them the higheft value, that... | |
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