 | Samuel Irenæus Prime - 1885 - 388 Seiten
...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 may have been written." The most famous untaught orator of America, Patrick Henry,... | |
 | Samuel Irenæus Prime - 1885 - 388 Seiten
...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 may have been written." The most famous untaught orator of America, Patrick Henry,... | |
 | Robert Steel - 1885 - 254 Seiten
...more sublimity, more exquisite beauty, more pure morality, more imixtrtant history, and finer strains of poetry and eloquence, than can be collected from all other books, at whatever age or in whatever language they may have been written. " A sceptical prince once asked... | |
 | Joseph Augustus Seiss - 1886 - 382 Seiten
...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 may have been written." And even Rousseau, to the disgust of his fellow-unbelievers,... | |
 | John Knox Shaw - 1887 - 392 Seiten
...Scriptures, independent of a Divine origin, contain more true sublimity, more exquisite beauty and pure morality, more important history, and finer strains both of poetry and eloquence, than could be collected within the same compass from all other books that were ever composed in any age... | |
 | 1888 - 233 Seiten
...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 have been written. Sir William Jones. The Bible is the treasure of the poor, the... | |
 | Walter Baxendale - 1888 - 690 Seiten
...true sublimity, more exquisite beauty, more lure morality, more important history, and finer .-trains 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. Hemans lay on her deathbed she repeated... | |
 | Henry Donald Maurice Spence-Jones, Joseph Samuel Exell, Charles Neil - 1889
...Divine origin, contains more sublimity, purer morality, more important history, and finer strains of eloquence, than can be collected from all other books, in whatever language they may have been written. — Sir William Jones. [14473] There is not a book on earth so favourable to all the kind,... | |
 | Christopher Perren - 1889 - 422 Seiten
...divine origin, contains more sublimity, purer morality, more important history, and finer strains of eloquence, than can be collected from all other books, in whatever language they may have been written. — SIR WM. JONES. 43. Bible Eclipsed. If all the rays of mental light which have streamed... | |
 | 1889 - 529 Seiten
...and am of opinion that the volume, independently of its divine origin, contains more sublimity, purer morality, more important history, and finer strains, both of poetry and eloquence, than could be collected within the same compass from all other books that were ever composed in any age... | |
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