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The Bible contains more 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 whatever age or language they have been written.
The Bible contains more 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 whatever age or language they have been written.
Approximate author period: c. 1770 AD · early modern
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- Sir William Jones
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- Approximate author period: c. 1770 AD · early modern
author lifetime midpoint (1746–1794)
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- Dictionary of Quotations (1893) (1893 AD)
Printed citation: Sir William Jones. · page_418
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