...description of the sacred volume. "I have carefully and regularly perused these Holy Scriptures ; and I am of opinion, that this volume, independently of...collected from all other books, in whatever age or Ian, guage they may have been written." EXPLANATION OF THE PRINCIPAL FIGURES OF SPEECH. Metaphor.—...

...contains " more sublimity and beauty, more pure morality, more important " history, and finer strains of poetry and eloquence, than can be " collected from...whatever age or language they " may have been composed," that such a man should be blest in the work of his hands, and that the seed sown by him should in God's...

...true sublimity, more exquisite beauty, more pure morality, more important history, and finer strians of poetry and eloquence, than can be collected from...books, in whatever age or language they may have been written. The unrestrained application of them to events, which took place long after the publication,...

...contains more f uhliinity and beauty, more pure morality, more important history,' and finer strains of poetry and eloquence, than can be collected from all other books, in whatever age or {»aguege they may have been composed." It may be true, that the Scriptures are not written according...

...contains more simplicity and beauty, more pure morality, more important history, and finer strains of poetry and eloquence, than can be collected from...whatever age or language they may have been composed." This, it must be acknowledged, is an important testimony, and not more important than decisive, and...

...contains more simplicity * and beauty, more pure morality, more important history, and finer strains of poetry and eloquence, than can be col-lected from all other books, in what ever age or language they may have been composed." But let it be remembered that these Scriptures...

...contains more simplicity ' and beauty, more pure morality, more important history, and finer strains of poetry and eloquence, than can be collected from all other books, in what ever age or language they may have been composed." But let it be remembered that these Scriptures...

...true sublimity, more exquisite beauty, more pure morality, more important history, and finer strains of poetry and eloquence, than can be collected from all other books, in whatsoever age or language they may have been composed. The two parts, of which the Scriptures consist,...

...origin, contains more sublimity and beauty, more pure morality, more important history, and finer strains of poetry and eloquence, than can be collected from...age or language they may have been composed.' The Honorable Robert Boyle is another instance. His whole life and fortune were spent in illustrating the...

...true sublimity, more exquisite beauty, more pure morality, more important history, and finer strains of poetry and eloquence, than can be collected from...books, in whatever age or language they may have been written." " Had Cicero," says Addison, " lived to see all that Christianity has brought to light, how...