 and attentively read 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 both of Poetry...  The Gentleman's Magazine - Sayfa 551819Tam görünüm - Bu kitap hakkında
 | 1886 - 440 sayfa
...cultivated languages. Sir William Jones once wrote on a blank leaf of his Bible : " 1 am of opinion that this volume, independently of its divine origin, contains more true sublimity, more exquisit« beauty, more pure morality, more important history, and finer strains of poetry und eloquence,... | |
 | John Knox Shaw - 1887 - 422 sayfa
...Scriptures, independent of a Divine origin, contain more true sublimity, more exquisite beauty and pure morality, more important 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... | |
 | 1888 - 252 sayfa
...more marks of authenticity in the Bible than in any profane history whatever. /. Newton. The Bible contains more true sublimity, more exquisite beauty,...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... | |
 | Walter Baxendale - 1888 - 708 sayfa
...true sublimity, more exquisite beauty, more lure morality, more important history, and finer .-trains both of poetry and eloquence than can be collected from all other books that were ever composed in any age or in any idiom." When Mrs. Hemans lay on her deathbed she repeated... | |
 | Henry Donald Maurice Spence-Jones, Joseph Samuel Exell, Charles Neil - 1889 - 528 sayfa
...Divine origin, contains more sublimity, purer morality, more important history, and finer strains of eloquence, than can be collected from all other books, in whatever language they may have been written. — Sir William Jones. [14473] There is not a book on earth so favourable to all the kind,... | |
 | Jerome Dean Davis - 1889 - 274 sayfa
...we have, according to William Jones, the great jurist, linguist, poet, orientalist, a book ' which contains more true sublimity, more exquisite beauty,...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... | |
 | Christopher Perren - 1889 - 442 sayfa
...divine origin, contains more sublimity, purer morality, more important history, and finer strains of eloquence, than can be collected from all other books, in whatever language they may have been written. — SIR WM. JONES. 43. Bible Eclipsed. If all the rays of mental light which have streamed... | |
 | 1889 - 558 sayfa
...and am of opinion that the volume, independently of its divine origin, contains more sublimity, purer morality, more important 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... | |
 | Philip Schaff - 1890 - 476 sayfa
...William Jones : " I have regularly and attentively read the Holy Scriptures, and am of the opinion that this volume, independently of its divine origin, contains more true sublimity, more exquisite beauty, more important history and finer strains both of poetry and eloquence, than could be collected from all... | |
 | Robert Steel - 1890 - 680 sayfa
...Bible contains more true sensibility, more exquisite beauty, more pure morality, and finer strains of poetry and eloquence, than can be collected from all other books, in whatever age or language they may be written." The vast researches into the sacred books of the East have only... | |
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