 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 - Страница 288по John Shore Baron Teignmouth - 1806Пълен достъп - Информация за книгата
 | John Hampson (schoolmaster.) - 1841 - 224 страници
...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 garaut le... | |
 | Samuel Osgood - 1842 - 426 страници
...independent of its divine origin, contains more sublimity, purer morality, more important history, andjiner strains of eloquence, than can be collected from all...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 inferred... | |
 | Joel Hawes - 1842 - 200 страници
...origin, contains more sublimity, purer morality, more important history, and finer strains of eloc|uencc, 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 light to... | |
 | 1842 - 434 страници
...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 aft other hooks, in whatever language they may have been written. — Sir William Jones. And Sir William... | |
 | Churchman - 1843 - 198 страници
..." I am ' of opinion that this volume, independently of its Divine origin, contains more sublimity, purer morality, more important history, and finer...in whatever language they may have been written." Lord Lyttleton, it is said, entertained some ( doubt early in life of the truth of Christianity; j... | |
 | 1843 - 596 страници
...bold to say, that " the Scriptures, independently of their divine origin, contain higher sublimity, purer morality, more important history, and finer strains of eloquence, than can be produced from all the stores of Grecian, Indian, Persian or even Arabian learning collected." But we... | |
 | William Carus Wilson - 1848 - 978 страници
...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." Having, then, such an inexhaustible fountain of unalloyed enjoyment and valuable instruction, shall... | |
 | Theodore Dwight - 1845 - 846 страници
...opinion, that (he volume called the Bible, independently of its divine origin, contains more sublimity, purer morality, more important history, and finer...in whatever language they may have been written." Now, to whom was Sir William Jones almost exclusively indebted, in his most important, because his... | |
 | 1845 - 864 страници
...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.' How well qualified he was to make this remark, and how much it implied in his lips, may be inferrrj... | |
 | 1845 - 440 страници
...independent of its divine origin, contains more wblimity, purer morality, more important history, and Sacr strains of eloquence, than can be collected from all...other books, in whatever language they may have been •ritten.1 How well qualified he was to make this remark, and how much it implied in his lips, may... | |
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