 I cannot 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, purer morality, more important history, and finer...  The Friend of India - Strona 231818Pełny widok - Informacje o książce
 | A. M - 1797 - Liczba stron: 358
...cannot refrain from adding, that the collection of tracts, which we call from their excellence, The Scriptures, contain, independently of a divine origin,...both of poetry and eloquence, than could be collected within the same compass from all other books that were ever composed in any age, or in any idiom. The... | |
 | 1798 - Liczba stron: 542
...of a divine origin, more true sublimity, " more exquisite beauty, purer moralily, more im" portant history, and finer strains both of poetry and " eloquence, than could be collected within the same ' ' compass from all other books, that were ever com" posed in any age, or in any idiom... | |
 | John Todd - 1799 - Liczba stron: 200
...his Bible, and also inserted in his eighth discourse before the society for Asiatic researches. " The Scriptures contain, independently of a Divine origin,...of poetry and eloquence, than could be collected, within the same compass, from all other books that were ever composed in any age or in any idiom. The... | |
 | 1799 - Liczba stron: 204
...make life happy. Sir William Jones finds in it " more true sublimity, more exquisite beauty, more pure morality, more important history, and finer strains, both of poetry and eloquence, than can be collected from all other books that were ever composed in any age or in any idiom." As Mrs.... | |
 | David Morrice - 1801 - Liczba stron: 328
...being an unerring guide to happiness in this world and the next, " as a cola collection of Tracts, they contain, independently of a divine origin, more true...both of poetry and eloquence, than could be collected within the same compass from all other books that were ever composed in any age, or in any idiom."... | |
 | 1804 - Liczba stron: 508
...INDEPENDENTLY OF ITS DIVINE ORIGIN, CONTAINS MORE TRUE SUBLIMITY, MORE EXQUISITE 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 AGE OR LANGUAGE THEY MAY HAVE" BEEN COMPOSED. Here... | |
 | 1813 - Liczba stron: 996
...notorious, where he declares that " the Scriptures f contain, independently of their divine original, more true sublimity, more exquisite beauty, purer...both of poetry and eloquence, than could be collected within the same compass from all other books that were ever • Tacit. Hist. lib. v. 5. t Anniversary... | |
 | N. NISBETT - 1802 - Liczba stron: 314
...independently of its divine origin, contains more true sublimity, ' more exquisite 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 age or language they may have been composed.... | |
 | Beilby Porteus (bp. of London.) - 1804 - Liczba stron: 388
...independently of its divine origin, contains more true Sublimity, more exquisite 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 age or language they may have been composed. " The... | |
 | John Mitchell - 1805 - Liczba stron: 260
..." The collection of tracts, which, from their excellence, we call Scriptures, contain, independant of a divine origin, more true sublimity, more exquisite...important history, and finer strains both of poetry and of eloquence, than can be collected within the same compass from all other books that were ever composed... | |
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