 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...  Mistakes of Ingersoll on Thomas Paine: As Shown by E.P. Goodwin, D.D., Wm. M ... - Page 38edited by - 1880 - 158 pagesFull view - About this book
 | A. M - 1797 - 358 pages
...Scriptures, contain, independently of a divine origin, more true sublimity, more exquisite beauty, purer morality, more important history, and finer...that were ever composed in any age, or in any idiom. The two parts, of which the scriptures consist, are connected by a chain of compositions, which bear... | |
 | Asia - 1798 - 542 pages
...of a divine origin, more true sublimity, " more exquisite beauty, purer moralily, more im" portant history, and finer strains both of poetry and " eloquence,...same ' ' compass from all other books, that were ever com" posed in any age, or in any idiom . The two " parts, of which the scriptures consist, are con"... | |
 | John Todd - Conduct of life - 1799 - 200 pages
...The Scriptures contain, independently of a Divine origin, more true sublimity, more exquisite beauty, purer morality, more important history, and finer...that were ever composed in any age or in any idiom. The two parts of which the Scriptures consist, are connected by a chain of compositions, which bear... | |
 | Bible - 1799 - 204 pages
...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 - Moral education - 1801 - 328 pages
...Tracts, they contain, independently of a divine origin, more true sublimity, more exquisite beauty, purer morality, more important history, and finer...composed in any age, or in any idiom." SIR WILLIAM JONES, in his Asiatic Researches. ,• Armed with this shield, far more invulnerable than the fabulous immortal... | |
 | 1804 - 508 pages
...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... | |
 | Religion - 1813 - 996 pages
...Scriptures f contain, independently of their divine original, more true sublimity, more exquisite beauty, purer morality, more important history, and finer...the same compass from all other books that were ever • Tacit. Hist. lib. v. 5. t Anniversary Discourse. made by Mr. D'Oyly to specific charges of Sir... | |
 | N. NISBETT - 1802 - 314 pages
...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 - 388 pages
...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... | |
 | English poetry - 1805 - 1082 pages
...important history, ' and finer strains both ol poetry 4 and eloquence, than could be col-. * lected within the same compass '* from all other books, that were ' ever composed in any age, or in " ' any itfom. The two parts, of '.vvhichthe scriptures consist, are '.connected by a chiiri o't compo-. *... | |
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