 ... 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...  The heart: its meditations and exercises, comprising Private prayers, tr ... - Page ixby Lancelot Andrewes (bp. of Winchester.) - 1843Full view - About this book
 | English literature - 1795 - 486 pages
...eloquence, than could be collected within the fame compafs from all other books that were ever com pol cd in any age, or in any idiom. The two parts, of which the Scriptures conflit, are connected by & chain of compofitions, which bear DO refemblance in form or itylc to any... | |
 | 1796 - 490 pages
...eloquence, than could be collected within the fame compafs from all other books, that were ever compofed in any age or in any idiom* The two parts, of which the Scriptures conftft, are connected by a chain of compositions, which bear no refernblance in form or ftyle to any... | |
 | Joseph Priestley - Apologetics - 1796 - 404 pages
...than " could be colle£led within the fame compafs *' from all other books that were ever comtc pofed in any age, or in any idiom. The " two parts of which the fcriptures confifr, " are connected by a chain of compofitions" (meaning the prophetical books) " which... | |
 | A. M - 1797 - 358 pages
...history, and finer strains both of poetry and eloquence, than could be collected within the same compass from all other books that were ever composed in any...chain of compositions, which bear no resemblance, either in form or stile, to any that can be produced from the stores of Grecian, Indian, Persian, or... | |
 | Asia - 1798 - 542 pages
...than could be collected within the 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" nected by a chain of compositions, which bear no •' resemblance in form or style to any that... | |
 | Bible - 1799 - 204 pages
...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. Hemans lay on her death-bed, she repeated whole chapters of Isaiah with rejoicing lips ; and... | |
 | History - 1800 - 812 pages
...eloquence, than could he collected within the fame compafs from all other books that were ever compofed in any age, or in any idiom. • — The two parts, of which the fcriptures cnnfift, ar« connected by a chain of compofitions, which bear no refcmblance in form or... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1800 - 1008 pages
...eloquence, than could be collected within the fame compafs from all other books that were ever compofcd in any age, or in any idiom. —The two parts, of which the fcriptures confift, are conncfted by a chain of compofitions, which bear no irfemblance in form or... | |
 | 1804 - 508 pages
...deemed proper to add the next, and indeed the concluding sentence, which might be thus arranged: — THE TWO PARTS OF WHICH THE SCRIPTURES CONSIST, . ARE...WHICH BEAR NO RESEMBLANCE, IN FORM OR STYLE, TO ANY THING THAT CAN BE PRODUCED FROM THE STORES OF GRECIAN, PERSIAN, OR EVEN ARABIAN LEARNING; THE ANTIQUITY... | |
 | David Morrice - Moral education - 1801 - 328 pages
...history, and finer strains both of poetry and eloquence, than could be collected within the same compass from all other books that were ever composed in any age, or in any idiom." SIR WILLIAM JONES, in his Asiatic Researches. ,• Armed with this shield, far more invulnerable than... | |
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