"Seven hours to law, to soothing slumber seven, Ten to the world allot, and all to heaven."

"I have carefully and regularly perused the Holy Scriptures, and am of opinion that the volume contains more sublimity…"

"Voices of the glorified urge us onward. They who have passed from the semblances of time to the realities of eternity…"

"Of armies on the chequer’d field array’d, And guiltless war in pleasing form display’d; When two bold kings contend w…"

"Some men never heard of the Asiatick writings, and others will not be convinced that there is anything valuable in th…"

"Than all Bocara's vaunted gold, Than all the gems of Samarcand."

"Go boldly forth, my simple lay, Whose accents flow with artless ease, Like orient pearls at random strung."

"Now it is certain that the genius of every nation is not a little affected by their climate; for whether it be that t…"

"It has been my endeavour for several years to inculcate this truth, that, if the principal writings of the Asiaticks,…"

"A celebrated Eastern philosopher begins his first dissertation with the following period. "The perfect education of a…"