I have regularly and attentively perused these 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... The Bible in Many Tongues - Page 131799 - 192 lehteFull view - About this book
| 1888 - 252 lehte
...marks of authenticity in the Bible than in any profane history whatever. /. Newton. The Bible contains more 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... | |
| Jerome Dean Davis - 1889 - 274 lehte
...according to William Jones, the great jurist, linguist, poet, orientalist, a book ' which contains more true sublimity, more exquisite beauty, more pure...morality, more important history, and finer strains of poetry and eloquence than can be col ected from all the other books, in whatever age or language... | |
| John Wesley Hanson - 1894 - 1232 lehte
...dispute. He wrote: "I 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 from all other books in whatever age or language they... | |
| John Wesley Hanson - 1894 - 1214 lehte
...dispute. He wrote: "I 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 from all other books in whatever age or language they... | |
| Maturin Murray Ballou - 1894 - 604 lehte
...more you will get into the spirit of Christ. — Romaine. I am of the opinion that the Bible contain! more true sublimity, more exquisite beauty, more pure...morality, more important history, and finer strains of' poetry anil eloquence, than can be collected from all other books, in whatever age or language... | |
| Sarah Knowles Bolton - 1896 - 438 lehte
...presence. She loved the Bible, and would quote the words of Sir William Jones: "The Bible contains more 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... | |
| John Henry Barrows - 1897 - 424 lehte
...the New Testament is all the wisdom of the world," and with Sir William Jones that "in the Bible are more 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... | |
| 1897 - 308 lehte
...Truth, there is no knowing : without the Life, there is no living. Thomas a Kempis. The Bible contains more 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... | |
| Elizabeth Blanchard Cook - 1898 - 204 lehte
...the New Testament is all the wisdom of the world,' and with Sir William Jones that ' in the Bible are more 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... | |
| Phineas Garrett - 1904 - 890 lehte
...ages say; Silent Wisdom evermore Holds the lamp to light the way. Annie E. Cole. The Bible contains more 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... | |
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