 | 1892
...Scriptures contain 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 any age or language [Sir W. Jones]. There are many books which are good and sound, but, like half-pence,... | |
 | Frederic William Farrar - 1897 - 335 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.' 12. William Cowper, comparing the poor Buckinghamshire lace- worker with Voltaire, says :... | |
 | 1897 - 320 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. Honest love, honest sorrow, Honest work... | |
 | Orison Swett Marden - 1897 - 347 Seiten
...Scriptures contain, independently of a divine origin, more true sublimity, more exquisite beauty, 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,... | |
 | Elizabeth Blanchard Cook - 1898 - 191 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 yet not discover that the chief secret of the Bible... | |
 | James Edward Cowell Welldon - 1902 - 384 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." Yet the literary distinction of the Bible is lost to view in the dazzling light of its spiritual... | |
 | Phineas Garrett - 1904
...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. Small service is true service while it lasts;... | |
 | Phineas Garrett - 1904
...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 o;- language they have been written. Sir William Jonts. Small service is true service while it... | |
 | Jasper Newton Field - 1904 - 227 Seiten
...volume, independent of its divine origin, contains more sublimity, purer morality and finer strains of eloquence, than can be collected from all other books, in whatever language they are written." Sir Walter Scott says : "Within this ample volume lies the mystery of mysteries. Happy... | |
 | Martin Grove Brumbaugh - 1905 - 351 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." And, if one could summon to his side all the really great... | |
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