...contains more fublimity and beauty, more pure " 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...

...Scriptures, contain, independently of a divine origin, more true sublimity, more exquisite beauty, 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,...

...recommends the frequent perusal of it as the surest way to make life happy. Sir William Jones finds in it " more true sublimity, more exquisite beauty, more pure...eloquence, than can be collected from all other books that were ever composed in any age or in any idiom." As Mrs. Hemans lay on her death-bed, she repeated...

...Scriptures contain, independently of a Divine origin, more true sublimity, more exquisite beauty, 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...

...thus: I HAVE REGULARLY AND ATTENTIVELY READ THE HOLY SCRIPTURES; AND I AM OF OPINION THAT THE SACRED VOLUME, INDEPENDENTLY OF ITS DIVINE ORIGIN, CONTAINS...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...

...contains more fublimity and beauty, more " pure 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...

...Tracts, they contain, independently of a divine origin, more true sublimity, more exquisite beauty, 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,...

...his Bible. " I have regularly " and attentively read these Holy Scriptures, and am of opinion that this " Volume, independently of its divine origin,...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...

...contain, independently of their divine original, more true sublimity, more exquisite beauty, 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 • Tacit. Hist. lib....

...true fublimity, more exquifite beauty, more pure 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...