 | 1797 - 610 sayfa
...morality, more important hiftory, and finer ftrains of poetry and eloquence, than can be collefted from all other books, in whatever age. or language they may have been compofed." SELECT SENTENCES. GRACE not only makes a man, more a man ; but it makes him more than a man. SECKE-R.... | |
 | William Seward - 1797 - 752 sayfa
...mcralityi more important hiftory, and finer *' ftrains of poetry and eloquence, than can be ** collected from all other books, in whatever " age or language they may have been com" pofed." In Sir William Jones, India has loft its greateft ornament ; the Commentator of its Poetry,... | |
 | Andrew Fuller - 1801 - 340 sayfa
...morality, more important hiftory, and finer " ftrains of poetry and eloquence, than can be " collected from all other books, in whatever age " or language they may have been compofed." The acknowledgments of ROUSSEAU, likewife, whofe tafte for fine writing, and whofe freedom rfrom prejudice... | |
 | 1804 - 508 sayfa
...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. Here the Inscription might perish, unless it should be deemed proper to add the next, and... | |
 | 1802 - 308 sayfa
...pure morality, more important hiftory, and finer {trains of poetry and eloqucnee than can be collected from all other books, in whatever age or language they may have been compofed." •In Sir William jone-., India has loft its greateft ornament ; the Commentator of its Poetry, the Inveftigator of its... | |
 | N. NISBETT - 1802 - 314 sayfa
...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. * The two parts of which the Scriptures consist, are connected by a chain of ' compositions,... | |
 | 1802 - 904 sayfa
...morality, more important hiiiory , and liner (trains both of poetry and eloquence, than can be collected from all other books, in whatever age or language they may have l)Cc4i,compofcd. ^'Tlic two parts, of which the Scriptures confiit, ar« connected hv a chain of competitions,... | |
 | 1803 - 474 sayfa
...morality, more im. portant hiftory, and finer drains both of poetry and eloquence, than can be collected from all other books, in whatever age or language they may have been compofed. " The two parts of which the Scriptures confift, are connected by a chain of compositions, which bear... | |
 | Beilby Porteus - 1803 - 422 sayfa
...morality, more important hiflorr, and finer ftrairs both ol poetry and eloquence-, than can be collected from all other books, in whatever age or language they may have been compofcd. Birr that which (lamps upon them the higheft value, that which renders them, ftriftly fpeaking,... | |
 | Henry Kett - 1803 - 512 sayfa
...morality, more important frtftory, and finer Jtrains of poetry and eloquence, than can be collected from all other books, in whatever age or language they may have been compofcd." . f Bifhop Hall's Meditations. * Seward's Anecdotes, vol. %vp. 176. CHAPTER CHAPTER IV.... | |
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... 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... 
