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Elements of General Knowledge: Introductory to Useful Books in the Principal ... - Page 228
by Henry Kett - 1805
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Elements of General Knowledge: Introductory to Useful Books in the ..., Volume 1

Henry Kett - Books and reading - 1803 - 512 pages
...contains more Jimplicity and beauty, more pure morality, more important frtftory, and finer Jtrains of poetry and eloquence, than can be collected from...other books, in whatever age or language they may have been compofcd." . f Bifhop Hall's Meditations. * Seward's Anecdotes, vol. %vp. 176. CHAPTER CHAPTER...
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Lectures on the Gospel of St. Matthew: Delivered in the Parish ..., Volumes 1-2

Beilby Porteus - Bible - 1803 - 422 pages
...fublimity, more exquifite beauty, more pure morality, more important hiflorr, and finer ftrairs both ol poetry and eloquence-, than can be collected from...other books, in whatever age or language they may have been compofcd. Birr that which (lamps upon them the higheft value, that which renders them, ftriftly...
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A Plea for Religion and the Sacred Writings: Addressed to the Disciples of ...

David Simpson - Apologetics - 1803 - 446 pages
...contains more fublimity and beauty, more pure mo" rality, more important hiftory, and finer ftrains of poetry " and eloquence, than can be collected from all other " books, in whatever language or age they may have been " compofed." And is it not ftrange that thefe contemptible writers,...
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Lectures on the Gospel of st. Matthew, Volume 1

Beilby Porteus (bp. of London.) - 1804 - 388 pages
...Sublimity, more exquisite beauty, more pure morality, more important history, and finer strains both of poetry and eloquence, than can be collected from...other books, in whatever age or language they may have been composed. " The two parts, of which the Sciiptures consist, are connected by a chain of compositions,...
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A Plea for Religion and the Sacred Writings: Addressed to the Disciples of ...

David Simpson - Apologetics - 1809 - 410 pages
...Scriptures, and am of opinion, this volume, independent of its divine origin, contains more sublimity and beauty, more pure morality, more important history,...can be collected from all other books, in whatever language or age they may have been composed." Is it not strange that these contemptible writers, as...
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Letters to the Stranger in Reading

Henry Gauntlett - Christianity - 1810 - 236 pages
...Scriptures, and am of opinion that this volume, independent of its divine origin, contains more sublimity and beauty, more pure morality, more important history,...other books, in whatever age or language they may have been composed." Were it necessary, Sir, I could give you a multiplicity of similar testimonies, from...
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A Plea for Religion and the Sacred Writings: Addressed to the Disciples of ...

David Simpson - 1810 - 422 pages
...Lawyer, " and am of opinion this volume, indeptndent of its divine origin, contains more sublimity and beauty, more pure morality, more important history,...can be collected from all other books, in whatever language or age they may have been composed." And is it not strange that these contemptible writers,...
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Sermons on Devotional, Evangelical and Practical Subjects

Joshua Toulmin - Sermons, English - 1810 - 506 pages
...origin, contains more fublimity and c' beauty, more pure morality, important " hiftory, and finer ftrains of poetry and " eloquence, than can be collected from...books, in whatever age or language " they may have been compofed." However, then, the more grave as well as the light compofitions of human pens may be...
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A View of the Evidence of Christianity: And of the Inspiration of the ...

Samuel Taggart - Apologetics - 1811 - 414 pages
...contains more fublimity and beauty, more pure i* morality, more important biftory, and finer (trains of '« poetry and eloquence, than can be collected from, all «• other books, in whattver age or language they may <* beea cwpofed." i k-3ed out of many, may ferve as a fpecimen. Jobis...
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An Essay on the Inspiration of the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament

John Dick - Bible - 1811 - 302 pages
...divine origin, contains more sublimity and beauty, more pure morality, more Important history, ai.d hner strains of poetry and eloquence, than can be collected from all other books, iu whatever age or language they may have been composed." ideas of composition, totally Different from...
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