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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 dogmatics (concluded)

Henry Donald Maurice Spence-Jones, Joseph Samuel Exell, Charles Neil - 1889 - 528 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. — Sir...
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Seed Corn for the Sower: Or, Thoughts, Themes and Illustrations for the ...

Christopher Perren - 1889 - 442 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. — SIR...
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A History of the Church of S. Mary the Virgin, Oxford: The University Church ...

Edmund Salusbury Ffoulkes - 1892 - 548 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 1 " ' Monuments...
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Two Spheres; Or, Mind Versus Instinct

W. T. B. Martin, T. E. S. T. - 1894 - 536 pages
...Sir William Jones, the eminent Sanscrit scholar, said that, independently of its origin, "it contains more sublimity, purer morality, more important history, and finer strains of eloquence than can be collected from all other books whatever." M. Eenan has said that, " But for the Jews, the...
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The Bible : Its Meaning and Supremacy

Frederic William Farrar - 1897 - 388 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.' 12. William...
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The Revelation of the Holy Spirit

James Edward Cowell Welldon - 1902 - 444 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." Yet the...
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Recollections of a Lifetime

John Goode - 1906 - 282 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 any other book in whatever language it may have been written.' The foremost...
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Recollections of a Lifetime

John Goode - 1906 - 284 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 any other book in whatever language it may have been written.' The foremost...
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The Friend of Wilberforce; Sir William Jones; Reginald Heber; Sir Arthur ...

Henry Morris - 1908 - 266 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."* He repeated...
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Three Thousand Selected Quotations from Brilliant Writers: Compiled from the ...

Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert - 1912 - 702 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. — SIR...
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