 Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament, adversity is the blessing of the New, which carrieth the greater benediction, and the clearer revelation of God's favour. Yet even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's harp, you shall hear as...  The Retrospective Review - Página 1421821Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Augusta Browne - 1859 - 350 páginas
...harp, you shall hear as many hearse-like airs as carols; and the pencil of the Holy Spirit hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the...Solomon. Prosperity is not without many fears and distrusts; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. We see, in needleworks and embroideries,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1860 - 1008 páginas
...favour. Yet, even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's harp you shall hear as many hearse-like airs as carols ; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost...; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. W« see in needleworks and embroideries it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad and solemn... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1897 - 950 páginas
...favour. Yet, even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's harp you shall hear as many hearse-like airs as carols ; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost...more in describing the afflictions of Job than the feh'cities of Solomon. Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes ; and adversity is not without... | |
 | Henry Reed - 1860 - 414 páginas
...David's harp, you shall hear as many hearse-like airs as carols : and the pencils of the Holy Ghost have laboured more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon. "f The moral use of tragic poetry consists then in such employment of poetic truth that the poet's... | |
 | Job (the patriarch) - 1860 - 204 páginas
...VEESE. BY THE EARL OF WINCHILSEA, (LATE VISCOUNT MAIDSTONE.) " The pencil of the Holy Ghost has labour'd more In describing the afflictions of * Job than the felicities of Solomon." — BACON'S ESSAYS. LONDON: SMITH, ELDER AND CO., 65, CORNHILL. M.DCCC.LX. PBEFACE. No man who ever... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1861 - 422 páginas
...peneil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more in deseribing the afflietions of Job than the felieities of Solomon. Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes ; and adversity is not without eomforts and hopes. We see in needleworks and embroideries it is more pleasing to have a lively work... | |
 | John Baillie - 1862 - 40 páginas
...Hewitson" £c. " I was an hungered, and ye gave me meat ; naked, and ye clothed me.— MATT, xxv, 85, 36. " Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes...and adversity is not without comforts and hopes." — LOKD BACON. profits to bx gtjjplicb- io % gtlitf of % gli LONDON : JAMES NISBET, BEENEE'S STEEET.... | |
 | 1862 - 972 páginas
...harp, you ehall hear as many hearse-like airs as carols — and the pencils of the Holy Ghost have laboured more in describing the afflictions of Job, than the felicities of Solomon." — Bacon. SELF-DENIAL. îy order to gain a correct idea of this lofty virtue, it ie necessary to establish... | |
 | Wise sayings - 1864 - 394 páginas
...favour. Yet even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's harp, you shall hear as many funereal airs as carols ; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost...; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. Essay on Adversity. — LORD BACON. ADVICE. Insincerity in asking Nothing is less sincere than our... | |
 | John Kirk - 1864 - 448 páginas
...eternal reunion 1 VIII. EMBARRASSMENTS. If you listen to David's harp, you shall hear as many hearse-like airs, as carols : and the pencil of the Holy Ghost...; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. —BACON. EVEN in our own days, the position of many clergymen in the Church of England, and many ministers... | |
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