 Yet even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's harp, you shall hear as many hearselike airs as carols; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.  Essays, Critical and Miscellaneous - Página 287por Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1852 - 744 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1843 - 520 páginas
...his style was constantly becoming richer and softer. The following passage, first published in 1G25, will show the extent of the change : " Prosperity...which carrieth the greater benediction and the clearer evidence of God's favour. Yet, even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's harp you shall hear... | |
 | Cazneau Palfrey - 1839 - 448 páginas
...true to himself who does not find in his own soul the great principles of virtuous purpose. SELECTION. PROSPERITY is the blessing of the Old Testament, adversity...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... | |
 | 636 páginas
...PROSPERITY AND ADVERSITY. — The virtue of prosperity is temperance; the virtue of adversity is fortitude. Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament ;...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... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1846 - 782 páginas
...we have quoted. But his style was constantly becoming richer and softer. The following passage, fi^t published in 1625, will show the extent of the change:...benediction and the clearer evidences of God's favour. Vet, even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's harp you shall hear as many heurselike airs... | |
 | 1846 - 308 páginas
...Prosperity is Temperance; the virtue of Adversity is Fortitude, which in morals is the more heroical virtue Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament ;...carrieth the greater benediction, and the clearer revelation of God's favour. Yet even in the Old Testament, if yon listen to David's harp, you shall... | |
 | General principles - 1847 - 132 páginas
...prosperity is temperance, the virtue of adversity is fortitude, which in morals is the more heroical virtue. Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament, adversity...carrieth the greater benediction, and the clearer revelation of God's favour."* " If he * Bacon's Essays. be compassionate towards the afflictions of... | |
 | 1847
...prosperity is temperance, the virtue of adversity is fortitude, which in morals is the more heroical virtue. Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament, adversity...carrieth the greater benediction, and the clearer revelation of God's favor."* " If he be compassionate towards the afflictions of others, it shows that... | |
 | John Frederick Schroeder - 1849 - 478 páginas
...those heavenly graces that impart a sacredness to Christian sorrow. V. HER WIDOWHOOD AND OLD AGE. " Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament ;...carrieth the greater benediction, and the clearer revelation of God's favor." LORD BACON : Essay on Adversity. " Whom the Lord loveth, he chasteneth."... | |
 | 1849 - 614 páginas
...is to come, than a continual flow of success and selfgratification. Lord Bacon was right in saying, "Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament;...which carrieth the greater benediction and the clearer revelation of God's favor. Yet even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's harp, you shall... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1850 - 588 páginas
...prosperity is temperance, the virtue of adversity is fortitude, which in morals is the more heroical virtue. ened and put abroad; whereby the imagery doth appear...lie but as in packs." Neither is this «ecojrid frui revelation of God's favour. Yet even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's harp, you shall... | |
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