 | John Angell James - Children - 1827 - 186 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." Salmasius, the learned antagonist of Milton, said on his death-bed, " that were he to begin life again,... | |
 | Clergy - 1829 - 258 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." It is not too much to say, that all competent judges will agree with him in this opinion. Indeed, 1... | |
 | Edward Payson - Congregational churches - 1828 - 516 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." How well he was qualified to make this remark, and how much it implied in his lips, may be inferred... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - Apologetics - 1828 - 314 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. '* (Life by Lord Teignmouth, II. 236, 245, 8vo edit.) In a Discourse likewise, addressed to the Asiatic... | |
 | Edward Payson - Congregational churches - 1828 - 522 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 12 THE BIBLE may have been written." How well he was qualified to make this remark, and how much it... | |
 | Joel Hawes - Books and reading - 1829 - 190 pages
...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...bosom. Let it be a lamp to your feet, and a light to yourpath. With every morning dawn and evening shade, repair to the book of God for instruction and... | |
 | Clergy - 1829 - 256 pages
...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 - Catechisms - 1829 - 440 pages
...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 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 muy have been written." 196 STCDY OP THE HEBREW. 197 in advance of other writings, in all the respects... | |
 | John Gregory Pike - 1831 - 396 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." It is related, that the eminent English poet Collins, in the latter part ot his mortal career, " withdrew... | |
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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... 
