I have carefully and regularly perused these Holy Scriptures, and am of opinion, that the volume, independently of its divine origin, contains more sublimity, purer morality, more important history, and finer strains of eloquence, than can be collected... Memoirs of the Life, Writings, and Correspondence, of Sir William Jones - Página 452por John Shore Baron Teignmouth - 1807 - 636 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Edward Payson - 1828 - 516 páginas
...origin, contains more sublimity, purer morality, more important history, and finer strains of eloquence, than can be collected from all other books, in whatever language they may have been written." How well he was qualified to make this remark, and how much it implied in his lips, may be inferred... | |
| Francis Wrangham - 1828 - 314 páginas
...origin, contains more sublimity, purer morality, more important history, and finer strains of eloquence, than can be collected from all other books, in whatever language they may have been written. '* (Life by Lord Teignmouth, II. 236, 245, 8vo edit.) In a Discourse likewise, addressed to the Asiatic... | |
| Edward Payson - 1828 - 522 páginas
...origin, contains more sublimity, purer morality, more important history, and finer strains of eloquence, than can be collected from all other books, in whatever language they 12 THE BIBLE may have been written." How well he was qualified to make this remark, and how much it... | |
| Joel Hawes - 1829 - 190 páginas
...origin, con tains more sublimity, purer morality, more important history, and finer strains of eloquence, than can be collected from all other books, in whatever language they may have been written." Embrace this volume then, my friends, to your bosom. Let it be a lamp to your feet, and a light to... | |
| 1829 - 256 páginas
...contains more sublimity, purer morality, more impartant history, and finer strains of eloquence, thon can be collected from all other books, in Whatever language they may have been written." It is not too -much to say, that all competent judges will agree with him in this opinion. Indeed,... | |
| Ashbel Green - 1829 - 440 páginas
...more sublimity, purer morality, more important history, and finer strains of eloquence, than can he collected from all other books, in whatever language they may have been written." After such a testimony, from the first scholar of his age, one would suppose that, in the absence of... | |
| American education society - 1829 - 280 páginas
...origin, contains more sublimity, purer morality, more important history, and finer strains of eloquence, than can be collected from all other books, in whatever language they muy have been written." 196 STCDY OP THE HEBREW. 197 in advance of other writings, in all the respects... | |
| Joel Hawes - 1831 - 186 páginas
...origin, contains more sublimity, purer morality, more important history, and finer strains of eloquence, than can be collected from all other books, in whatever language they may have been written." Embrace this volume then, my friends, to your bosom. Let it be a lamp to your feet, and a light to... | |
| John Gregory Pike - 1831 - 396 páginas
...origin, contains more sublimity, purer morality, more important history, and finer strains of eloquence, than can be collected from ALL other books, in whatever language they may have been written." It is related, that the eminent English poet Collins, in the latter part ot his mortal career, " withdrew... | |
| 1833 - 530 páginas
...origin, contains more sublimity, purer morality, more important history, and finer strains of eloquence, than can be collected from all other books, in whatever language they may have been written." Beyond all controversy, the Bible is the noblest instrument . that can be employed, not only for moral,... | |
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