| Sir William Jones - 1824 - 336 σελίδες
...their excellence the Scriptures, cantata, 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... | |
| Sir William Jones - 1824 - 356 σελίδες
...Scriptures, contain, independently of a divine origin, more trne sublimity, more exquisite 1>eauty, purer morality, more important history, and finer strains both of poetry and eloqnence, than could be collected within the same compass from all other books that were ever composed... | |
| William Russell, William Channing Woodbridge, Fordyce Mitchell Hubbard - 1831 - 792 σελίδες
...assures us that, ' Independently of their divine origin, the Scriptures contain more true sublimity, more exquisite beauty, purer morality, more important history,...books which were ever composed, in any age, or in any idiom.' Rousseau could not but say, ' The majesty of the Scripture strikes me with astonishment. Never... | |
| Christopher Anderson - 1826 - 582 σελίδες
...sublimity, more exquisite beauty, purer morality, more important history, and finer strains of poetry and eloquence, than could be collected, within the same compass, from all other books that were composed in any age, or in any idiom. The two parts of which the Scriptures consist, are... | |
| Christopher Anderson - 1826 - 484 σελίδες
...sublimity, more exquisite beauty, purer morality, more important history, and finer strains of poetry and eloquence, than could be collected, within the same compass, from all other books that were composed in any age, or in any idiom. The two parts of which the Scriptures consist, are... | |
| Andrew Fuller - 1826 - 366 σελίδες
...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, or in any language. The two parts of which the scriptures consist,... | |
| General reader - 1827 - 246 σελίδες
...competency lives longer. The 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... | |
| 1827 - 554 σελίδες
...more exquisite beauly, purer morality, more important history, and finer strains botli of poetry and eloquence, than could be collected within the same compass from all other books that were ever composed in any age or in any idiom. The two parts of which the scriptures consist are... | |
| John Evans - 1831 - 322 σελίδες
...incomparable scholar, Sir William Jones, "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... | |
| Thomas Smith Grimké - 1831 - 222 σελίδες
...Wm. Jones, that " the 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,... | |
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