The 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... Memoirs of the Life, Writings and Correspondence, of Sir William Jones - Сторінка 365автори: John Shore Baron Teignmouth - 1806 - 531 стор.Повний перегляд - Докладніше про цю книгу
| St. Andrew's Church (Headington, Oxford, England) - 1881 - 352 стор.
...more true sublimity, more exquisite beauty, purer morality, more impartiaL,history, and finer strains of poetry and eloquence, than could be collected within the same compass from all other books ever composed in any age." Shakespeare quoted continually from the Bible. Milton said, "There are no... | |
| 1869 - 590 стор.
...contain, independently of a divine origin, more true sublimity, more exquisite beauty, more pure morality, more important history, and finer strains both of poetry and eloquence, than could be collected from all other books that were ever composed in any age, or in any idiom.' 2 ' In the Scripture, wherever... | |
| James McCrie - 1871 - 652 стор.
...Jones, " independently of a divine origin, more true sublimity, more exquisite beauty, purer morality, more important history, and finer strains both of...were ever composed in any age or in any idiom. The parts of which the Scripture consists are connected by a chain of compositions which bear no resemblance... | |
| J. J. Smith - 1871 - 302 стор.
...divine original, more true sublimity, more exquisite beauty, more important history, pure morality, and finer strains both of poetry and eloquence, than...that were ever composed in any age or in any idiom." Through its hallowed influences, what iron chains of sin have been broken ! what bonds of friendship... | |
| John Cumming - 1871 - 310 стор.
...more true sublimity, more exquisite beauty, purer morality, more impartial history, and finer strains of poetry and eloquence, than could be collected within the same compass from all other books ever composed in any age." " The fairest productions of human wit," writes Bishop Home, "after a few... | |
| Enoch Fitch Burr - 1871 - 396 стор.
...this volume, independentlv of its Divine origin, contains more true sublimity, more exquisite beauty, more important history, and finer strains both of poetry and eloquence than could be collected from all other books. Milton says, There are no songs comparable to the songs of Zion, no orations... | |
| Samuel Wordsworth Bailey - 1871 - 132 стор.
...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 could be collected from all other books." XXXV. By OM MITCHELL, LL.D., the Devout Astronomer and Patriotic General. 1810-1862.... | |
| Howard Lorenzo Hastings - 1871 - 682 стор.
...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." When Mrs.... | |
| Samuel Cowdy - 1873 - 342 стор.
...origin, more true sublimity, exquisite beauty, pure morality, important history, and finer strains of poetry and eloquence, than could be collected within the same compass from all other books ever composed in any age or in any idiom.' 2 Another great man says : ' Never fancy that you could... | |
| Bible Christians - 1875 - 600 стор.
...Jones say, " That the Scriptures contain more true sublimity, more exquisite beauty, purer morality, more important history, and finer strains, both of...that were ever composed in any age or in any idiom." And we may take it for granted, brethren, that unless we dive deep into the fulness of the sacred oracles,... | |
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