 | 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 Poetry,... | |
 | 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 freedom... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | 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 its... | |
 | 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...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,... | |
 | 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...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... | |
 | Henry Kett - 1803 - 512 pages
...contains more Jimplicity and beauty, more pure morality, more important frtftory, and finer Jtrains of poetry and eloquence, than can be collected from...books, in whatever age or language they may have been compofcd." . f Bifhop Hall's Meditations. * Seward's Anecdotes, vol. %vp. 176. CHAPTER CHAPTER IV.... | |
 | Beilby Porteus - 1803 - 422 pages
...fublimity, more exquifite beauty, more pure morality, more important hiflorr, and finer ftrairs both ol poetry and eloquence-, than can be collected from...books, in whatever age or language they may have been compofcd. Birr that which (lamps upon them the higheft value, that which renders them, ftriftly fpeaking,... | |
 | David Simpson - 1803 - 446 pages
...contains more fublimity and beauty, more pure mo" rality, more important hiftory, and finer ftrains of poetry " and eloquence, than can be collected from all other " books, in whatever language or age they may have been " compofed." And is it not ftrange that thefe contemptible writers,... | |
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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 of poetry and eloquence, than can be collected... 
