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" 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 of poetry and eloquence, than can be collected... "
A Summary of the History of the English Church and of the Sects which Have ... - Page 573
by Johnson Grant - 1820
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A Layman's Apology, for the Appointment of Clerical Chaplains by the ...

Solomon Southwick - Apologetics - 1834 - 340 pages
...true sublimity, more exquisite beauty, more pure morality, more important history, and finer strians of poetry and eloquence, than can be collected from...books, in whatever age or language they may have been written. The unrestrained application of them to events, which took place long after the publication,...
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Book for Parents: The Genius and Design of the Domestic Constitution, with ...

Christopher Anderson - Child rearing - 1834 - 442 pages
...Scriptures, contain, independently of a divine origin, 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...
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Standard Works, Volumes 1-20

1835 - 612 pages
...am of opinion, that this volume, independently of it« Divine origin, contains more f uhliinity and beauty, more pure morality, more important history,'...collected from all other books, in whatever age or {»aguege they may have been composed." It may be true, that the Scriptures are not written according...
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Religion without gloom, exemplified in a series of sacred lessons, with ...

Religion - 1837 - 234 pages
...am of opinion that this volume, independently of its divine origin, contains more simplicity ' and beauty, more pure morality, more important history,...eloquence, than can be collected from all other books, in what ever age or language they may have been composed." But let it be remembered that these Scriptures...
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Religion without gloom, exemplified in a series of sacred lessons, with ...

Religion - 1837 - 234 pages
...am of opinion that this volume, independently of its divine origin, contains more simplicity * and beauty, more pure morality, more important history,...eloquence, than can be col-lected from all other books, in what ever age or language they may have been composed." But let it be remembered that these Scriptures...
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An Ancient Feudal War-song: Entitled Grasagh Aboe (The Cause of the Graces ...

1839 - 158 pages
...impressive note at the end of his Bible : " I have regularly and carefully read those Holy Sc.iiptures, and am of opinion that this volume, independently of its...eloquence, than can be collected from all other books, in whatsoever age or language they may have been composed. The two parts, of which the Scriptures consist,...
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The Cottager's Friend, and Guide of the Young, Volume 6

Christian life - 1842 - 284 pages
...the Bible :— " I am of opinion," says Sir W. Jones, " that, independently of its divine origin, it contains more true sublimity, more exquisite beauty,...books, in whatever age or language they may have been written." " Had Cicero," says Addison, " lived to see all that Christianity has brought to light, how...
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The monitory and epistolary exercise book

John Hampson (schoolmaster.) - 1841 - 224 pages
...and am of opinion, that this volume, independent of its divine origin, contains more sublimity and beauty, more pure morality, more important history,...can be collected from all other books, in whatever language or age they may have been composed. Education. " La bonne education de la jeunesse, cat le...
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The Methodist new connexion magazine and evangelical repository, Volume 61

1858 - 708 pages
...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." The gifted Petrarch thinks, " that if all books...
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Calcutta Review, Volume 3

India - 1847 - 556 pages
...volume, independent of its divine origin, contains more true sublimity, more exquisite beauty, and more pure morality, 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...
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