 | Christopher Anderson - Domestic relations - 1826 - 582 pages
...Scriptures, contain, independently of a divine origin, more true sublimity, more exquisite beauty, purer morality, more important history, and finer strains of poetry and eloquence, than could be collected, within the same compass, from all other books that were composed in any age, or... | |
 | 1827 - 392 pages
...origin, contains more sublimity and beauty — more pure morality — »ore important history, and finer of poetry and eloquence, than can be collected from...other books, in whatever age or language they may have been composed." The illustrious buther had so deep an impression of the unrivalled excellence of the... | |
 | John Shepherd - 1828 - 408 pages
...that this volume, independently of " its divine origin, contains more true sublimity, more exquisite " beauty, more pure morality, more important history,...other books, in whatever age or language they may have " been written." " Study the Holy Scriptures," says Mr. Locke, " especially the " New Testament. Therein... | |
 | John Cooke - 1828 - 630 pages
...divine origin, contains more sublimity and beauty,—more pure morality,—more important history,—and finer strains of poetry and eloquence, than can be collected from all other books, in whatever language or age, they may have been composed." C. They have exerted all their faculties, employed every... | |
 | John Murray - Archaeology - 1831 - 324 pages
...SCRIPTURES, and am of opinion that this Volume, independently 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." LORD BACON. — " There never was found, in any age of the world, either philosopher,... | |
 | Bourne Hall Draper - Bible - 1831 - 296 pages
...Cowper. B 2 of opinion, that this volume, independently 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." The friends and relatives of Mr. Benyon often visited him in his retirement ; but,... | |
 | Charles Buck - Anecdotes - 1831 - 418 pages
...scriptures, and am of opinion, that this volume, independently 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'' " The honourable Robert Boyle is another instance. His whole life and fortune were... | |
 | Henry Cogswell Knight - Sermons, American - 1831 - 280 pages
...that this volume, independently of its divine origin, contains more true sublimity, more exquisite beauty, more pure morality, more important history,...other books, in whatever age or language they may have been written. In his last moments, when his penitence was as great as had previously been his infidelity... | |
 | 1831 - 548 pages
...Scriptures, and am of opinion that this volume, independently of its divine origin, contains more simplicity and beauty, more pure morality, more important history,...and eloquence, than can be collected from all other tooks, in whatever age or language they may have been composed." Nothing, it is said, so highly offended... | |
 | William Ladd - Peace - 1831 - 890 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 heen written.'1 Other men of eminent learning and worth, have bornea similar testimony to the literary... | |
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I have regularly and attentively perused these Holy Scriptures, and am of opinion that this volume, independently of its divine origin, contains more true sublimity, more exquisite beauty, more pure morality, more important history, and finer strains... 
