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" The Scriptures contain, independently of a 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, within the same compass, from all other... "
The Teacher and the Parent: A Treatise Upon Common-school Education ... - Page 54
by Charles Northend - 1853 - 327 pages
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Asiatick Researches: Or, Transactions of the Society Instituted in ..., Volume 4

1798 - 550 pages
...of a divine origin, more true sublimity, " more exquisite beauty, purer moralily, more im" portant history, and finer strains both of poetry and " eloquence,...same " compass from all other books, that were ever com" posed in any age, or in any idiom. The two " parts, of which the scriptures consist, are con"...
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Self-improvement: Chiefly Addressed to the Young...

John Todd - 1799 - 200 pages
...in his Bible, and also inserted in his eighth discourse before the society for Asiatic researches. " The Scriptures contain, independently of a Divine...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...
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The Bible in Many Tongues

1799 - 204 pages
...make life happy. Sir William Jones finds in it " more true 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....
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Mentor, Or, The Moral Conductor of Youth: From the Academy to Manhood ...

David Morrice - 1801 - 328 pages
...being an unerringguide to happiness in this M r orld and the next, " as a collection of Tracts, they contain, independently of a divine origin, more true...beauty, purer morality, more important history, and Jiner strains both of poetry and eloquence, than could be collected within the same compass from all...
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The triumphs of Christianity over infidelity displayed, or the coming of the ...

N. NISBETT - 1802 - 314 pages
...independently of its divine origin, contains more true sublimity, more exquisite beauty, more pure morality, more important history, and finer strains both of Poetry and Eloquence, than can be colleSed from all other books, in whatever age or language they may have been composed. The...
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The Polyanthea: Or, A Collection of Interesting Fragments, in ..., Volume 1

Charles Henry Wilson - 1804 - 428 pages
...independently of its divine origin, contains more true 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, in whatever age or language they may have been pomposed. The...
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The Polyanthea: Or, A Collection of Interesting Fragments, in Prose and ...

Charles Henry Wilson (m. 1808) - 1804 - 428 pages
...independently of its divine origin, contains more true 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, in whatever age or language they may have been composed. •...
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The History of Egypt: From the Earliest Accounts of that Country ..., Volume 1

James Wilson - 1805 - 452 pages
...collection ' of tracts, which 'we call, from their * excellence, the Scriptures, contain, in* dependently of a divine origin, more ' true sublimity, more exquisite beauty, ' purer morality, more important histo* ry, and finer strains, both of poetry * and eloquence, than could be collect' ed, within the...
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A Plea for Religion and the Sacred Writings: Addressed to the Disciples of ...

David Simpson - 1809 - 408 pages
...but I cannot refrain from adding, that the collection of tracts, which we call from their excellence the Scriptures, contain, independently of a Divine...both of poetry and eloquence, than could be collected wi.hin the same compass from all other books that were ever composed in any age, or in any idiom The...
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A Plea for Religion and the Sacred Writings: Addressed to the Disciples of ...

David Simpson - 1810 - 422 pages
...their excellence The Scriptures, contain, independently of a divine origin, more true sublimity, n>orp exquisite beauty, purer morality, more important history,...that were ever composed in any age or in any idiom. The Iwo parts of which the Scriptures consist, are connected by a chain of compositions, which bear...
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