 | John Hampson (schoolmaster.) - 1841 - 224 pàgines
...origin, 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. Education. " La bonne education de la jeunesse, cat le... | |
 | James Stamford Caldwell - 1843 - 372 pàgines
...origin, contains more sublimity and beauty, more pure morality, more important history, and finer strains of poetry and eloquence, than can be collected from....whatever age or language they may have been composed. 2 Laying his hand on the Bible 3 , he would say, " There is true philosophy: this is the wisdom that... | |
 | 1858 - 708 pàgines
...recommends the frequent perusal of it as the surest way to make life happy. Sir William Jones finds in it " more true sublimity, more exquisite beauty, more pure...eloquence, than can be collected from all other books that were ever composed in any age or in any idiom." The gifted Petrarch thinks, " that if all books... | |
 | Bradford Frazee - 1845 - 214 pàgines
...sublimity, purer morality, more important history, and finer strains of eloquence, than can be selected from all other books, in whatever age or language they may have been written." Sir W. Jones. * WORDS CONTAINING TWO CASES. Sentences are common, in our best authors, in... | |
 | Alexander Carson - 1847 - 476 pàgines
...origin, contains more sublimity and beauty, more pure morality, more important history, and finer strains of poetry and eloquence than can be collected from...whatever age or language they may have been composed." It is not any of these perfections that recommends the Bible to the attention of sinners. This may... | |
 | John Eadie - 1848 - 178 pàgines
...true sublimity, more exquisite beauty, more pure morality, more important history, and finer strains of poetry and eloquence, than can be collected from...books, in whatever age or language they may have been written."* This superiority also "cometh forth from the Lord of Hosts." But the Bible is also robed... | |
 | Kazlitt Arvine - 1848 - 908 pàgines
...true sublimity, more exquisite beauty, more pure morality, more important history, and finer strains of poetry and eloquence, than can be collected from...all other books, in whatever age or language they rrray have been written. The unstrained application of them to events which took place long after the... | |
 | 1848 - 400 pàgines
...pure morality, more important history, and finer strains of poetry and eloquence, than can be found in all other books, in whatever age or language they may have been written." Within this awful volume lies The mystery of mysteries. Oh! happiest they of human race,... | |
 | Cortlandt Van Rensselaer - 1850 - 814 pàgines
...independently of its divine origin, contains more sublimity and beauty, purer morality, and finer strains of poetry and eloquence, than can be collected from...whatever age or language they may have been composed."* But the excellency of the Scriptures cannot be appreciated by the rules of human criticism. As well... | |
 | Kazlitt Arvine - 1850 - 882 pàgines
...exquisite beauty, more pure morality, more important history, and finer strains of poetry and elegance, than can be collected from all other books, in whatever age or language they may have been written. The unstrained application of them to events which took place long after the publication,... | |
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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 of poetry and eloquence, than can be collected... 
