 | Sir William Jones - 1807 - 554 pages
...contains more fubiimity, purer mo" rality, more important hiftory, and finer " drains of eloquence, than can be collected " from all other books, in whatever language " they may have been written." This opinion is repeated with little variation of expremon, in a difcourfe addrefled to the fociety... | |
 | William Jones - 1807 - 534 pages
...contains more fubiimity, purer mo" rality, more important hiftory, and finer " ftrains of eloquence, than can be collected " from all other books, in whatever language " they may have been writer*." This opinion is repeated with little variation of expreffion, in a difcourfe addrefled to... | |
 | Sir Egerton Brydges - Bibliographical literature - 1807 - 912 pages
...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 beea written." At length we arrive at the close of this most extraordinary man's life; and I shall... | |
 | Missions - 1805 - 672 pages
...Holy Spirit to increase your understanding of, faith in, and lave to, the heavenly oracles. May they be a lamp to your feet, and a light to your path, from day to day ! The Scriptures are clothed with the authority of Jehovah ; and they are expressive... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 532 pages
...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." This opinion is repeated, with little variation, in a Discourse addressed to the Asiatic Society in... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1819 - 708 pages
...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 language they may have been composed. " 'The two parts of which the Scriptures consist are connected by a chain of compositions... | |
 | British prose literature - 1821 - 360 pages
...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." This opinion is repeated, with little variation of expression, in a discourse addressed to the Asiatic... | |
 | Henry Forster Burder - Religious thought - 1825 - 388 pages
...of a judge, from whom there is no appeal ? Do you gratefully avail yourselves of its adaptation to be " a lamp to your feet and a light to your path ?" Can you truly say, — " I esteem all thy precepts concerning all things to be right ; and I hate... | |
 | Christopher Anderson - Domestic relations - 1826 - 484 pages
...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." a- ' Nor did he confine these sentiments to his own bosom, or record them only in his closet. Upon... | |
 | Christopher Anderson - Domestic relations - 1826 - 582 pages
...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." Nor did he confine these sentiments to his own bosom, or record them only in his closet. Upon another... | |
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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... 
