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" 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 125
by J. J. Smith - 1871 - 288 pages
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The Guiding Star; Or, The Bible God's Message

Louisa Payson Hopkins - Bible - 1854 - 236 pages
...more true sublimity, more exquisite beauty, more morality, more important history, and finer strains of poetry and eloquence, than could be collected,...from all other books that were ever composed, in any other age, or in any other idiom.' The celebrated Burke says, in speaking of the power of the Deity,...
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The Christian journal

1854 - 594 pages
...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 from all other books that were ever composed in any age or in any idiom. The two parts of which the...
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The Healing of the Nations

Charles Linton - Spiritualism - 1855 - 556 pages
...as the word of God ; and I agree with that accomplished scholar and jurist, Sir William Jones, who declared that " The Scriptures contain, independently...other books that were ever composed in any age or idiom." And when I hear clergymen denounce "Spiritualism" as denying the truths of the Bible, I can...
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Public psalmody; or, The worship of praise in the congregations of the ...

Samuel Cowdy - Psalmody - 1856 - 22 pages
...their Divine origin, more true sublimity, exquisite beauty, pure morality, more important history, and finer strains both of poetry and eloquence, than...that were ever composed in any age or in any idiom." Turn at your pleasure to some of the metrical parts of the Bible, and markthe grandeur of sentiment...
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The British Millennial Harbinger

Churches of Christ - 1856 - 640 pages
...divine origin, more true sublimity, more exquisite beauty, finer morality, more important history, and finer strains both of poetry and eloquence, than...could be collected within the same compass, from all the other books that were ever compiled in any age or in any idiom. The two parts of which the Scriptures...
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Is Christianity from God?: Or, A Manual of Bible Evidence for the People

John Cumming - Apologetics - 1856 - 300 pages
...more true sublimity, more exquisite beauty, purer morality, more impartial history, and finer strains of poetry and eloquence, than could be collected within the same compass from all other books ever composed in any age." "The fairest productions of human wit," writes Bishop Horne, "after a few...
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The Student's Manual: Designed

John Todd - Conduct of life - 1856 - 420 pages
...Jones. Comprehensiveness of the Bible. eloquence, than could be collected, within the same conipass, 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 bears...
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Guide to the Oracles: Or, The Bible Student's Vade-mecum

Alfred Nevin - Bible - 1858 - 360 pages
...impossible that we can study it too much, or esteem it too highly. It contains more sublimity and beauty than could be collected, within the same compass,...other books that were ever composed in any age or idiom." Such are the opinions, as expressed by themselves, of Milton, the immortal poet ; Sir Matthew...
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The Christian's table book, extr. from various authors, with a preface by J ...

Christian - 1858 - 216 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. — SIB W. JONES. THE DIVINE NATURE. The God of Christians is not barely the author of geometrical...
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The Methodist Pulpit, South

William T. Smithson - Methodist Church - 1859 - 560 pages
...more true sublimity, more exquisite beauty, purer morality, more impartial history, and finer strains of poetry and eloquence, than could be collected within the same compass from all other books ever composed in any age." So likewise Bishop Horne, a learned prelate, whose writings are invariably...
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