| Alexander Carson - 1847 - 476 lapas
...Scriptures, and am of opinion, that this volume, independently of its divine origin, contains more sublimity and beauty, more pure morality, more important history,...other books, in whatever age or language they may have been composed." It is not any of these perfections that recommends the Bible to the attention of sinners.... | |
| 1847 - 556 lapas
...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... | |
| Christopher Anderson - 1847 - 500 lapas
...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... | |
| John Eadie - 1848 - 178 lapas
...contains, as a competent judge wrote on the blank leaf of his Bible, " more true sublimity, more exquisite beauty, more pure morality, more important history,...other books, in whatever age or language they may have been written."* This superiority also "cometh forth from the Lord of Hosts." But the Bible is also... | |
| Kazlitt Arvine - 1848 - 908 lapas
...that this volume, independently of its Divine origin, contains more true sublimity, more exquisite beauty, more pure morality, more important history,...all other books, in whatever age or language they rrray have been written. The unstrained application of them to events which took place long after the... | |
| 1848 - 400 lapas
...Scriptures, and .am of opinion that this volume, independently of its divine origin, contains more sublimity and beauty, more pure morality, more important history,...finer strains of poetry and eloquence, than can be found in all other books, in whatever age or language they may have been written." Within this awful... | |
| Christopher Anderson - 1848 - 432 lapas
...Scriptures, contain, ifldependently' 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... | |
| 1853 - 408 lapas
...Scriptures, and am of opinion 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. FLAVEL. — The Scriptures teach us the best way of living,... | |
| Cortlandt Van Rensselaer - 1850 - 814 lapas
...this volume, independently of its divine origin, contains more sublimity and beauty, purer morality, and finer strains of poetry and eloquence, than can...other books, in whatever age or language they may have been composed."* But the excellency of the Scriptures cannot be appreciated by the rules of human criticism.... | |
| Kazlitt Arvine - 1850 - 882 lapas
...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 elegance, than can be collected from all other books, in whatever age or language they may have been... | |
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