 I cannot refrain from adding,' says he, '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,...  Mentor, Or, The Moral Conductor of Youth: From the Academy to Manhood ... - iii. oldalszerző: David Morrice - 1801 - 286 oldalTeljes nézet - Információ erről a könyvről
 | 1856 - 640 oldal
...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, finer morality, more important history, and finer strains both of poetry and eloquence, than could... | |
 | William T. Smithson - 1859 - 560 oldal
...more true sublimity, more exquisite beauty, purer morality, more impartial history, and finer strains of poetry and eloquence, than could be collected within the same compass from all other books ever composed in any age." So likewise Bishop Horne, a learned prelate, whose writings are invariably... | |
 | Leroy Jones Halsey - 1860 - 460 oldal
...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, more pure morality more important history, and finer strains both of poetry and eloquence, than could... | |
 | Elements - 1862 - 246 oldal
...more true sublimity, more exquisite beauty, purer morality, more impartial history, and finer strains of poetry and eloquence, than could be collected within the same compass from all other books ever composed in any age." Sir Matthew Hale said : " There is no book like the Bible for excellent... | |
 | Henry Tullidge - 1863 - 454 oldal
...sublimity, more exquisite beauty, purer morality, more important history, and finer strains of poetry, than could be collected within the same compass, from all other books that were composed in any age, or in any idiom." Here was opened a poetic fountain more in. spiring far than... | |
 | Richard Ingham - 1864 - 650 oldal
...Sir W. JONES. — "The collection of tracts, which we call, from their excellence, the Scriptures, contain, independently of a Divine origin, more true...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... | |
 | Johann Peter Lange, Philip Schaff - 1874 - 692 oldal
...this volume, independently of its divine origin, contains more true sublimity, more exquisite beauty, more important history and finer strains both of poetry and eloquence, than could be collected from all other books." Sir DK Sandford: "In lyric flow and fire, in crushing force and majesty, the... | |
 | William Davis Tyack - 1866 - 182 oldal
...Scriptures, contain, independently of tlteir Divine origin, more important history, and finer strains of poetry and eloquence, than could be collected within the same compass from all the books that were ever composed in any nation " The antiquity of those compositions no man doubts... | |
 | James Suter - 1867 - 112 oldal
...Hebrew Scriptures. — " The collection of tracts which we call, from their excellence, the Scriptures, contain, independently of a divine origin, more true...within the same compass, from all other books that ever were composed, in any age or any idiom," (Sir William Jones) (D.) Number of Hebrews in the' United... | |
 | St. Andrew's Church (Headington, Oxford, England) - 1881 - 352 oldal
...more true sublimity, more exquisite beauty, purer morality, more impartiaL,history, and finer strains of poetry and eloquence, than could be collected within the same compass from all other books ever composed in any age." Shakespeare quoted continually from the Bible. Milton said, "There are no... | |
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