 I cannot refrain from adding that the collection of tracts, which we call, from their excellence, the Scriptures, contain, independently of a divine origin, more true sublimity, more exquisite beauty, purer morality, more important history, and finer...  The Impending Conflict Between Romanism and Protestantism in the United States - Page 125by J. J. Smith - 1871 - 288 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Christopher Anderson - Christian life - 1847 - 500 pages
...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 in any idiom. The two parts of which the Scriptures consist, are connected... | |
 | India - 1847 - 556 pages
...more important history and finer strains of poetry and eloquence, than could be collected in the some compass, from all other books that were ever composed in any age or nation. The antiquity of these compositions no man doubts, and the unstrained application of them to... | |
 | National Sunday school union - 1849 - 346 pages
...divine origin, more true sublimity, more exquisite beauty, purer morality, more important history, and finer strains, both of poetry and eloquence, than...that were ever composed in any age, or in any idiom. The two parts of which the Scriptures consist are connected by a chain of compositions, which bears... | |
 | Churches of Christ - 1848 - 602 pages
...contain, independently of a divine origin, more exquisite beauty, purer morality, more important history, and finer strains both of poetry and eloquence than...that were ever composed in any age, or in any idiom. The two parts of which the Scriptures consist are connected by a chain of composition which bears no... | |
 | Christopher Anderson - Domestic relations - 1848 - 432 pages
...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 in any idiom. The two parts of which the Scriptures consist, are connected... | |
 | Samuel Sterling Sherman - Baccalaureate addresses - 1850 - 40 pages
...sublimity, more exquisite beauty, purer moralitj-, more important history, and finer strains of both poetry and eloquence, than could be collected within...that were ever composed in any age or in any idiom." — Quoted in Jlojj'm aris Course of Leyal Study, pp. 65-G. t Rousseau's Works, vol. 5, p. 215, et... | |
 | James McFarlane Mathews - Bible - 1851 - 286 pages
...When the subject came before the mind of that accomplished scholar and jurist. Sir William Jones, he declared that " The Scriptures contain, independently...that were ever composed in any age or in any idiom," And we should add that, while his judgment is confirmed by tlie testimony of the learned in all professions,... | |
 | Theology - 1851 - 594 pages
...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 or in any idiom. The two parts of which the Scriptures consist are connected by a chain of compositions which bear no... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - Quotations, English - 1853 - 442 pages
...divine origin, more true sublimity, more exquisite beauty, purer morality, more important history, and finer strains both of poetry and eloquence, than...that were ever composed in any age or in any idiom. The two parts of which the Scriptures consist, are connected by a chain of compositions which bear... | |
 | Thomas Timpson - 1853 - 500 pages
...more true sublimity, more exquisite beauty, purer morality, more important history, and finer strains of poetry and eloquence, than could be collected within...other books that were ever composed in any age or nation." To distribute this blessed book alone, is the glory of the Bible Society. This Society enumerates... | |
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