 I have carefully and regularly perused these Holy Scriptures, and am of opinion, that the volume, independently of its divine origin, contains more sublimity, purer morality, more important history, and finer strains of eloquence, than can be collected...  Memoirs of the Life, Writings and Correspondence, of Sir William Jones - Page 288by John Shore Baron Teignmouth - 1806Full view - About this book
 | Antislavery movements - 1833 - 370 pages
...independently of its divine origin, contains more sublimity, purer morality, more important history, and liner strains of eloquence, than can be collected from all...in whatever language they may have been written." TUB PULSE.— In the time of Hippocrates, it was probably not more than sixty b< ats in a minute; from... | |
 | Christopher Anderson - Child rearing - 1834 - 442 pages
...Scriptures, and am of opinion, that the volume, independently of its divine origin, contains more sublimity, purer morality, more important history, and finer...in whatever language they may have been written." Nor did he confine these sentiments to his own bosom, or record them only in his closet. Upon another... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Children - 1835 - 248 pages
...Scriptures, and am of opinion that this volume, independent of its divine origin, contains more sublimity, purer morality, more important history, and finer...in whatever language they may have been written.' Embrace this volume then, my young friend, to your bosom. Let it be a lamp to your feet, and a light... | |
 | William Cowper, William Hayley - 1835 - 354 pages
...expressed in the same verse : " The words that I speak unto you, they are spirit and they are life." mity, purer morality, more important history, and finer...in whatever language they may have been written." * Having quoted Sir William Jones's testimony, we conclude by urging his example. " Before thy mystic... | |
 | William Cowper - 1836 - 526 pages
...expressed in the same verse : " The words that I speak unto you, they are spirit and they are life." mity, purer morality, more important history, and finer...in whatever language they may have been written." * Having quoted Sir William Jones's testimony, we conclude by urging his example. " Before thy mystic... | |
 | Christian biography - 1836 - 436 pages
...Scriptures, and am of opinion that the volume, independently of its iln'in o origin, contains more sublimity, purer morality, more important history, and finer...in whatever language they may have been written." Salmatius, the learned antagonist of Milton, said on his death-bed, "that were he to begin life again,... | |
 | Religion - 1836 - 432 pages
...Scriptures, and am of opinion that the volume, independently of its divine origin, contains more sublimity, purer morality, more important history, and finer...in whatever language they may have been written." Salmatius, the learned antagonist of Milton, said on his death-bed, " that were he to begin life again,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1835 - 360 pages
...expressed in the same verse : " The words that I speak unto you, they are spirit and they are life." mity, purer morality, more important history, and finer...in whatever language they may have been written." * Having quoted Sir William Jones's testimony, we conclude by urging his example. " Before thy mystic... | |
 | David Hoffman - Law - 1836 - 468 pages
...Scriptures, and am of opinion that the volume, independently of its divine origin, contains more sublimity, purer morality, more important history, and finer strains of eloquence, than can be collected from any other book, in whatever language it may have been written."' On another occasion he repeats, but... | |
 | 1837 - 790 pages
...man, " and am of opinion that this volume, independent of its divine origin, contains more sublimity, purer morality, more important history, and finer...in whatever language they may have been written." Beware then how you treat a subject whose indispensable importance is solemnly announced in that book... | |
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