| 1797 - Počet stránok 610
...morality, more important hiftory, and finer ftrains of poetry and eloquence, than can be collefted from all other books, in whatever age. or language they may have been compofed." SELECT SENTENCES. GRACE not only makes a man, more a man ; but it makes him more than a... | |
| William Seward - 1797 - Počet stránok 752
...contains more fublimity and beauty, more pure " mcralityi more important hiftory, and finer *' ftrains of poetry and eloquence, than can be ** collected...books, in whatever " age or language they may have been com" pofed." In Sir William Jones, India has loft its greateft ornament ; the Commentator of its Poetry,... | |
| A. M - 1797 - Počet stránok 358
...Scriptures, contain, independently of a divine origin, more true sublimity, more exquisite beauty, purer morality, more important history, and finer strains both of poetry and eloquence, than could be collected within the same compass from all other books that were ever composed in any age,... | |
| William Seward - 1798 - Počet stránok 536
...morality, more important hiftory, and 1* finer ftrains of poetry and eloquence, than " can be colletted from all other books, in " whatever age or language they may have been ** compofed-»" In Sir William Jones, India has loft its greateft ornament ; the Commentator of its... | |
| 1799 - Počet stránok 204
...recommends the frequent perusal of it as the surest way to make life happy. Sir William Jones finds in it " more true sublimity, more exquisite beauty, more pure...eloquence, than can be collected from all other books that were ever composed in any age or in any idiom." As Mrs. Hemans lay on her death-bed, she repeated... | |
| John Todd - 1799 - Počet stránok 200
...Scriptures contain, independently of a Divine origin, more true sublimity, more exquisite beauty, purer morality, more important history, and finer strains both of poetry and eloquence, than could be collected, within the same compass, from all other books that were ever composed in any age... | |
| Andrew Fuller - 1801 - Počet stránok 340
...contains more fublimity and beauty, more " pure morality, more 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." The acknowledgments of ROUSSEAU, likewife, whofe tafte for fine writing, and whofe freedom... | |
| David Morrice - 1801 - Počet stránok 328
...Tracts, they contain, independently of a divine origin, more true sublimity, more exquisite beauty, purer morality, more important history, and finer strains both of poetry and eloquence, than could be collected within the same compass from all other books that were ever composed in any age,... | |
| N. NISBETT - 1802 - Počet stránok 314
...Bible. " I have regularly " and attentively read these Holy Scriptures, and am of opinion that this " Volume, independently of its divine origin, contains...whatever age or language they may have been composed. * The two parts of which the Scriptures consist, are connected by a chain of ' compositions, which... | |
| 1802 - Počet stránok 904
...true lublimity, more excjuHiie beautf, more pure morality, more important hiiiory , and liner (trains both of poetry and eloquence, than can be collected...other books, in whatever age or language they may have l)Cc4i,compofcd. ^'Tlic two parts, of which the Scriptures confiit, ar« connected hv a chain of competitions,... | |
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