 | Stephen Higginson Tyng - 1833 - Počet stránok 284
...the Holy Scriptures, and am of opinion that this volume, independent of its divine origin, contains more true sublimity, more exquisite beauty, purer...other books that were ever composed in any age or nation. The antiquity of those compositions no man doubts, and the unstrained application of them to... | |
 | 1833 - Počet stránok 588
...sublimity, exquisite beauty, pure morality, more important history, and finer strains, both of poetry and of eloquence, than could be collected within the same compass, from all other books that wer« ever composed, in any age, or in any idiom." This testimony has met with a cordial response from... | |
 | Thomas Timpson - 1834 - Počet stránok 158
...which is given by that very learned man, the late Sir William Jones. He says, "The Scriptures contain independently of a divine origin, more true sublimity,...other books that were ever composed in any age or nation. The antiquity of those compositions no man doubts, and the unstrained application of them to... | |
 | 1834 - Počet stránok 640
...adding, that the Collection of Tracts which we call, from their excellence, the Scripture, contain, independently of a divine origin, more true sublimity,...within the same compass, from all other books that ever were composed in any age or in any idiom." To this well-known encomium, it seems proper to add... | |
 | Christopher Anderson - 1834 - Počet stránok 442
...adding, that the collection of tracts, which we call, from their excellence, the Scriptures, contain, independently of a divine origin, more true sublimity,...morality, more important history, and finer strains of poetry and eloquence, than could be collected, within the same compass, from all other books that... | |
 | Dorus Clarke - 1836 - Počet stránok 228
...regarded as a competent judge on such a subject, says, "The Scriptures contain, independently of their divine origin, more true sublimity, more exquisite...that were ever composed in any age, or in any idiom." Much of the intellectual, as well as moral greatness of such men as Bacon, Newton, Boyle, Locke, Hale,... | |
 | David Hoffman - 1836 - Počet stránok 468
...says he, 'that the collection of tracts, which we call from their excellence the Scriptures, contain, independently of a divine origin, more true sublimity,...could be collected within the same compass, from all the other books that were ever composed in any age or in any idiom.' 'The two parts of which the Scriptures... | |
 | Tracts - 1836 - Počet stránok 506
...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... | |
 | Hubbard Winslow - 1837 - Počet stránok 424
...studied the Bible, and am of the opinion that this volume, independently of its divine origin, contains more true sublimity, more exquisite beauty, purer...important history, and finer strains both of poetry and of eloquence, than could be collected within the same compass from all other books which were ever... | |
 | Maria Baldwin - 1839 - Počet stránok 364
...the Holy Scriptures, and am of opinion that this volume, independent of its divine origin, contains more true sublimity, more exquisite beauty, purer...the same compass from all other books that were ever com posed in any age or nation. The application of them to events long subsequent to their publication,... | |
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I cannot refrain from adding, that the collection of tracts, which we call from their excellence the Scriptures, cantata, independently of a divine origin, more true sublimity, more exquisite beauty, purer morality, more important history, and finer strains... 
