 | Lindley Murray - 1816 - 298 sider
...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." wards, and without any additions, compofed from it the work which he calls the Apology of... | |
 | 492 sider
...mbrality, more important history, and finer " strains of poetry and eloquence, than can be collect"ed from all other books, in whatever age or language "they may have been written." In hie- last moments, when his penitence was as great as had previously been his infidelity... | |
 | 1820 - 792 sider
...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 may have been composed." The learned Mr. Bryant, after having written a work to prove that Troy never existed, said... | |
 | Johnson Grant - 1820 - 638 sider
...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 may have been composed." The " Theological Institutes " of Dr. Hill, of St. Andrew's, contained the outline of his... | |
 | 1820 - 742 sider
...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 may have been composed," The learned Mr. Bryant, after having written a work to prove that Troy never existed, said:... | |
 | 1822 - 588 sider
...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 may have been composed." The Hon. Robert Boyle, a native of Ireland, has said every thing in favour of the Bible... | |
 | 1840 - 520 sider
...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 may have been composed." 8. LORD BACON. "There never was found in any age of the world either philosopher, or sect,... | |
 | Beilby Porteus - 1823 - 458 sider
...It is there, and there only, that we are informed, from authority, of the * John vi. 68. 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,... | |
 | David Williamson - 1824 - 400 sider
...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 may have been composed." The testimony of Rousseau is still more remarkable, as he was, though possessed of the strongest... | |
 | Andrew Fuller - 1824 - 546 sider
...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 may have been composed." The acknowledgments of Rousseau, likewise, whose taste for fine writing, and whose freedom... | |
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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... 
