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" I have carefully and regularly perused these Holy Scriptures, and am of opinion, that the volume, independently of its divine origin, contains more sublimity, purer morality, more important history, and finer strains of eloquence, than can be collected... "
The Whole Works of King Alfred the Great: With Preliminary Essays ... - Page 374
by Alfred (King of England) - 1858
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Christian Effort: or, Facts and incidents designed to enforce and illustrate ...

Sarah BAKER (of Dorchester, Mass.) - 1850 - 286 pages
...the Holy Scriptures, and am of opinion that the volume, independently of its 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." John...
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Mothers of the Wise and Good

Jabez Burns - 1850 - 316 pages
...Scriptures, and am of opinion, that the volume called the Bible, independent of its 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." LADY...
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The Works of William Cowper: His Life, Letters, and Poems. Now First ...

William Cowper - 1851 - 790 pages
...Holy Scriptures, and am of opinion ' that the Volume, independently of its 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.''!! •Rev....
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A Treatise on Divine Union: Designed to Point Out Some of the Intimate ...

Thomas Cogswell Upham - 1851 - 474 pages
...the Holy Scriptures, and am of opinion, that, independent of its divine origin, the volume contains more sublimity, purer morality, more important history, and finer strains of eloquence, than can be collected from any other book, in whatever language it may have been written." But if the...
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The Whole Works of King Alfred the Great: With Preliminary Essays ..., Volume 1

Alfred (King of England) - 1852 - 596 pages
...who did every thing for glory, was never wanting in respect to (4) TorfjEUs, Hist. Norweg. II. p. 21. the talents of one, who spread and perpetuated it,...expressed the heavens by any other circumlocution, than ' the skull of the giant Ymer,' one of their demigods ; the rain-bow was called ' the bridge of...
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A Laconic Manual and Brief Remarker: Containing Over a Thousand Subjects ...

Charles Simmons - 1852 - 564 pages
...have carefully and regularly perused the Holy Scriptures, and am of opinion that the volume 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. Ames,...
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Annual Report

Massachusetts Bible Society - 1853 - 814 pages
...best works in twenty-eight languages, that " this volume, independent of its 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." In the...
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The Scottish Christian journal, Volumes 1-2

1853 - 688 pages
...this truly great man, ' and am of opinion that this volume, independent of its divine origin, contains for all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever. An than can be collected from all other books, in whatever language they may have been written.' How well...
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Memoir, Select Thoughts and Sermons of the Late Rev. Edward Payson ...

Edward Payson - 1858 - 620 pages
...this truly great man, "and am of opinion, that this volume, independent of its 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." How well...
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Self-made Men

Charles C. B. Seymour - 1858 - 1454 pages
...these Holy Scriptures, and am of opinion that the volume, independently of its 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." After...
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