 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...  The Medical Intelligencer: Containing Extracts from Foreign and American ... - Page 4921827Full view - About this book
 | Christopher Anderson - Domestic relations - 1826 - 484 pages
...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 in any idiom. The two parts of which the Scriptures consist, are connected... | |
 | William Russell, William Channing Woodbridge, Fordyce Mitchell Hubbard - Education - 1831 - 792 pages
...exquisite beauty, purer 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 which were ever composed, in any age, or in any idiom.' Rousseau could not but say, ' The majesty of... | |
 | General reader - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1827 - 246 pages
...true sublimity, more exquisite beauty, purer morality, more important history, and finer strains both of poetry and eloquence, than could be collected within...resemblance in form of style, to any that can be produced from the stores of Grecian, Indian, Persian, or even Arabian learning. The antiquity of those compositions... | |
 | John Evans - Life - 1831 - 322 pages
...true sublimity, more exquisite beauty, purer morality, more important history, and finer strains both of poetry and eloquence, than could be collected within...of compositions which bear no resemblance in form or style to any that can be produced from the stores of Grecian, Indian, Persian, or even Arabian learning.... | |
 | William Daniel Conybeare - Theology - 1831 - 188 pages
...more true sublimity, more exquisite beauty, purer morality, more important history, and finer strains of poetry and eloquence, than could be collected within...of compositions, which bear no resemblance in form or style to any that can be produced from the stores of Grecian, Indian, Persian, or even Arabian learning.... | |
 | Thomas Smith Grimké - Bible - 1831 - 222 pages
...true sublimity, more exquisite beauty, purer morality, more important history, and finer strains both of poetry and eloquence, than could be collected within...were ever composed, in any age, or in any idiom." And yet this book, "rich in a more precious treasure, eloquent in a more sublime language, noble by... | |
 | Thomas Timpson - Bible - 1831 - 266 pages
...true sublimity, more exquisite beauty, purer morality, more important history, and finer strains both of poetry and eloquence, than could be collected within...other books that were ever composed in any age or nation. The antiquity of those compositions no man doubts, and the unstramed application of them to... | |
 | Education - 1831 - 622 pages
...exquisite beauty, purer 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 which were ever composed, in any age, or in any idiom.' Rousseau could not but say, ' The majesty of... | |
 | John Morison - 1832 - 278 pages
...more true sublimity, more exquisite beauty, purer morality, more important history, and finer strains of poetry and eloquence, than could be collected within...of compositions which bear no resemblance in form or style to any that can be produced from the stores of Grecian, Indian, Persian, or even Arabian learning.... | |
 | William Channing Woodbridge - Bible - 1832 - 32 pages
...exquisite beauty, purer 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 which were ever composed, in any age or in any idiom.' Rousseau could not but say : ' The majesty of... | |
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