 | 1840 - 504 pages
...promises are " faithfulness and truth," and that even in die dark valley of the shadow of death, it shall be a " lamp to your feet and a light to your path." But there are others before me who are still young, or in the prime of life. Let me add a few words... | |
 | Jews - Bible - 1840 - 212 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 have been written." Are these deliberate opinions of wise men to be set aside by the coarse jest or... | |
 | Charles Augustus Goodrich - Families - 1841 - 576 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 of his mortal career, withdrew... | |
 | Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Publication - 1841 - 460 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." After such a testimony, from the first scholar of his age, one would suppose that, in the absence of... | |
 | Ashbel Green - Presbyterian Church - 1841 - 466 pages
...origin, contains more subli'niiy, purer morality, more important history, and finer slrains of eloquence than can be 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... | |
 | 1841 - 488 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." The largest portion of each year was devoted to his professional duties and studies ; and all the time... | |
 | Samuel Osgood - American literature - 1842 - 408 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... | |
 | Henry Addington Simcoe - 1842 - 298 pages
...yet by lightly or irreverently vising it ? Do you not neglect the study of God's word which should be a lamp to your feet and a light to your path? DJ you love God with all your heart, soul, and strength ? Do you love your neighbour as yourself ?... | |
 | Churchman - 1843 - 198 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." Lord Lyttleton, it is said, entertained some ( doubt early in life of the truth of Christianity; j... | |
 | James Selkirk - Missions - 1844 - 590 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."* The latter portion of the work details the operations of the Church Missionary Society with sufficient... | |
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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... 
