| Christopher Anderson - 1847 - 500 pages
...Scriptures, contain, independently of a divine origin, more true sublimity, more exquisite beauty, purer morality, more important history, and finer strains of poetry and eloquence, than could be collected, within the same compass, from all other books that were composed in any age, or... | |
| Kazlitt Arvine - 1848 - 908 pages
...description was found written : — " I have regularly and attentively perused these Holy Scripturts, and am of opinion that this volume, independently of its...all other books, in whatever age or language they rrray have been written. The unstrained application of them to events which took place long after the... | |
| John Eadie - 1848 - 178 pages
...are not to be overlooked. It contains, as a competent judge wrote on the blank leaf of his Bible, " more true sublimity, more exquisite beauty, more pure...books, in whatever age or language they may have been written."* This superiority also "cometh forth from the Lord of Hosts." But the Bible is also robed... | |
| 1848 - 400 pages
...and .am of opinion that this volume, independently of its divine origin, contains more sublimity and beauty, more pure morality, more important history,...finer strains of poetry and eloquence, than can be found in all other books, in whatever age or language they may have been written." Within this awful... | |
| Christopher Anderson - 1848 - 432 pages
...Scriptures, contain, ifldependently' of a divine origin, more true sublimity, more exquisite beauty, purer morality, more important history, and finer strains of poetry and eloquence, than could be collected, within the same compass, from all other books that were composed in any age, or... | |
| 1853 - 408 pages
...Scriptures, and am of opinion this volume, independent of its Divine origin, contains more sublimity and beauty, more pure morality, more important history,...can be collected from all other books, in whatever language or age they may have been composed. FLAVEL. — The Scriptures teach us the best way of living,... | |
| Kazlitt Arvine - 1850 - 882 pages
...exquisite beauty, more pure morality, more important history, and finer strains of poetry and elegance, than can be collected from all other books, in whatever age or language they may have been written. The unstrained application of them to events which took place long after the publication,... | |
| Abraham Mills - 1851 - 616 pages
...Scriptures, and am of opinion that this volume, independent of its Divine origin, contains more sublimity and beauty, more pure morality, more important history,...can be collected from all other books, in whatever language or age they may have been composed.' With respect to the division of his time, Sir William,... | |
| 1851 - 594 pages
...Scriptures, contain, independently of a divine origin, more true sublimity, more exquisite beauty, purer morality, more important history, and finer strains of poetry, and eloquence, than could be collected within the same ;ompass from all other books that were ever composed in any age... | |
| Catherine Sinclair - 1852 - 424 pages
...sublimity, more exquisite beauty, more pure morality, more important history, and finer strains both of poetry and eloquence, than can be collected from...books, in whatever age or language they may have been written." Many have only conscience enough to make them uneasy in sin, but not enough to keep them... | |
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