 | 1797 - 610 pages
...morality, more important hiftory, and finer ftrains of poetry and eloquence, than can be collefted from all other books, in whatever age. or language they may have been compofed." SELECT SENTENCES. GRACE not only makes a man, more a man ; but it makes him more than... | |
 | William Seward - 1797 - 752 pages
...contains more fublimity and beauty, more pure " mcralityi more important hiftory, and finer *' ftrains of poetry and eloquence, than can be ** collected...books, in whatever " age or language they may have been com" pofed." In Sir William Jones, India has loft its greateft ornament ; the Commentator of its... | |
 | William Seward - 1798 - 536 pages
...morality, more important hiftory, and 1* finer ftrains of poetry and eloquence, than " can be colletted from all other books, in " whatever age or language they may have been ** compofed-»" In Sir William Jones, India has loft its greateft ornament ; the Commentator of... | |
 | 1799 - 204 pages
...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." As Mrs. Hemans lay on her death-bed, she repeated... | |
 | Andrew Fuller - 1801 - 340 pages
...contains more fublimity and beauty, more " pure morality, more important hiftory, and finer " ftrains of poetry and eloquence, than can be " collected from...books, in whatever age " or language they may have been compofed." The acknowledgments of ROUSSEAU, likewife, whofe tafte for fine writing, and whofe... | |
 | 1802 - 904 pages
...lublimity, more excjuHiie beautf, more pure morality, more important hiiiory , and liner (trains both of poetry and eloquence, than can be collected from...other books, in whatever age or language they may have l)Cc4i,compofcd. ^'Tlic two parts, of which the Scriptures confiit, ar« connected hv a chain of competitions,... | |
 | N. NISBETT - 1802 - 314 pages
...sublimity, ' more exquisite beauty, more pure morality, more important history, and * finer strains both of Poetry and Eloquence, than can be' collected from...other books, in whatever age or language they may have been composed. * The two parts of which the Scriptures consist, are connected by a chain of ' compositions,... | |
 | 1802 - 308 pages
...fublimity and beauty, more pure morality, more important hiftory, and finer {trains of poetry and eloqucnee than can be collected from all other books, in whatever age or language they may have been compofed." •In Sir William jone-., India has loft its greateft ornament ; the Commentator of... | |
 | 1803 - 516 pages
...origin, contains more fublimity and beauty, more pure morality, more important hiftory, and finer flrains of poetry and eloquence, than can be collected from...other books, in whatever age or language they may have been eompofed." VOL. I. Uu On the Importance of the Doctrines of the Trinity and the Atonement. A GENTLEMAN... | |
 | 1803 - 474 pages
...fublimity, more exquifite beauty, more pure morality, more im. portant hiftory, and finer drains both of poetry and eloquence, than can be collected from...other books, in whatever age or language they may have been compofed. " The two parts of which the Scriptures confift, are connected by a chain of compositions,... | |
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I have regularly and attentively perused 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... 
