 | 1797 - 610 σελίδες
...morality, more important hiftory, and finer ftrains of poetry and eloquence, than can be collefted from all other books, in whatever age. or language they may have been compofed." SELECT SENTENCES. GRACE not only makes a man, more a man ; but it makes him more than a... | |
 | William Seward - 1797 - 752 σελίδες
...contains more fublimity and beauty, more pure " mcralityi more important hiftory, and finer *' ftrains of poetry and eloquence, than can be ** collected...books, in whatever " age or language they may have been com" pofed." In Sir William Jones, India has loft its greateft ornament ; the Commentator of its Poetry,... | |
 | A. M - 1797 - 358 σελίδες
...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 Seward - 1798 - 536 σελίδες
...morality, more important hiftory, and 1* finer ftrains of poetry and eloquence, than " can be colletted from all other books, in " whatever age or language they may have been ** compofed-»" In Sir William Jones, India has loft its greateft ornament ; the Commentator of its... | |
 | 1799 - 204 σελίδες
...recommends the frequent perusal of it as the surest way to make life happy. Sir William Jones finds in it " more true sublimity, more exquisite beauty, more pure...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... | |
 | John Todd - 1799 - 200 σελίδες
...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... | |
 | Andrew Fuller - 1801 - 340 σελίδες
...contains more fublimity and beauty, more " pure morality, more important hiftory, and finer " ftrains of poetry and eloquence, than can be " collected from...books, in whatever age " or language they may have been compofed." The acknowledgments of ROUSSEAU, likewife, whofe tafte for fine writing, and whofe freedom... | |
 | David Morrice - 1801 - 328 σελίδες
...Tracts, they 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,... | |
 | N. NISBETT - 1802 - 314 σελίδες
...Bible. " I have regularly " and attentively read these Holy Scriptures, and am of opinion that this " Volume, independently of its divine origin, contains...whatever age or language they may have been composed. * The two parts of which the Scriptures consist, are connected by a chain of ' compositions, which... | |
 | 1802 - 904 σελίδες
...true lublimity, more excjuHiie beautf, more pure morality, more important hiiiory , and liner (trains both of poetry and eloquence, than can be collected...other books, in whatever age or language they may have l)Cc4i,compofcd. ^'Tlic two parts, of which the Scriptures confiit, ar« connected hv a chain of competitions,... | |
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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'... 
