 and attentively read 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 both of Poetry...  The Gentleman's Magazine - Page 551819Full view - About this book
 | General reader - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1827 - 246 pages
...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... | |
 | John Shepherd - 1828 - 408 pages
...book. " I have regularly and attentively perused these Holy Scrip" tures ; and am of opinion, that this volume, independently of " its divine origin,...morality, more important history, and finer "strains of poetry and eloquence, than can be collected from " all other books, in whatever age or language... | |
 | Edward Payson - Congregational churches - 1828 - 516 pages
...divine origin, contains more sublimity, purer morality, more important history, and finer strains of eloquence, than can be collected from all other books, in whatever language they may have been written." How well he was qualified to make this remark, and how much it implied in his lips, may be... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - Apologetics - 1828 - 314 pages
...diyine origin, contains more sublimity, purer morality, more important history, and finer strains of eloquence, than can be collected from all other books, in whatever language they may have been written. '* (Life by Lord Teignmouth, II. 236, 245, 8vo edit.) In a Discourse likewise, addressed to... | |
 | John Cooke - 1828 - 630 pages
...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 method... | |
 | Edward Payson - Congregational churches - 1828 - 522 pages
...divine origin, contains more sublimity, purer morality, more important history, and finer strains of eloquence, than can be collected from all other books, in whatever language they 12 THE BIBLE may have been written." How well he was qualified to make this remark, and how much it... | |
 | Mary Roberts - 1829 - 414 pages
...characters that ever adorned and dignified human nature; " it contained, independently of a divine origin, more true sublimity, more exquisite beauty, more pure...and finer strains both of poetry and eloquence, than could be collected from all other books, in whatever language they might have been written." It was... | |
 | Joel Hawes - Books and reading - 1829 - 190 pages
...divine origin, con tains more sublimity, purer morality, more important history, and finer strains of eloquence, than can be collected from all other books, in whatever language they may have been written." Embrace this volume then, my friends, to your bosom. Let it be a lamp to your feet, and a... | |
 | American education society - 1829 - 280 pages
...divine origin, contains more sublimity, purer morality, more important history, and finer strains of eloquence, than can be collected from all other books, in whatever language they muy have been written." 196 STCDY OP THE HEBREW. 197 in advance of other writings, in all the respects... | |
 | Peace - 1831 - 670 pages
...and attentively read these Holy Scriptures, and a ii of opinion that this volume, independently ol its divine origin, contains more true sublimity, more...can be collected from all other books, in whatever age or language they may have heen written.'1 Other men of eminent learning and worth, have borne a... | |
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