 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
 | 1857 - 372 páginas
...prosperity is temperance, the virtue of adversity is fortitude, which in morals is the mere heroical virtue. 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... | |
 | Henry Reed - 1857 - 242 páginas
...Bacon, in one of those essays in which he has so sententiously compacted his deep thoughts, said, " Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity...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... | |
 | Robert Steel (D.D.) - 1858 - 484 páginas
...chief blessing of the New Testament religion. Lord Bacon somewhere remarks, favouring this idea, that " Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament, adversity...which carrieth the greater benediction and the clearer evidence of God's favour." It cannot be denied that very many of God's children have been chosen in... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1858 - 790 páginas
...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 you listen to David's harp, you shall... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - 1858 - 274 páginas
...things incompatible. Lord Bacon, fallen from his honours, wrote indeed those exquisite phrases :—' Prosperity is the blessing of the Old ' Testament;...' carrieth the greater benediction and the clearer evidence ' of God's favour. We see in needle-works and em' broideries, it is more pleasing to have... | |
 | 1858 - 918 páginas
...were they as lean as those of Pharaoh ; but for their own souls they have none."— Ibid. ADVERSITY. " Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament :...carrieth the greater benediction, and the clearer revelation of God's favor. Yet, even in the Old Testament, if 30 SHOET PAPERS. you listen to David's... | |
 | Echoes - 1859 - 216 páginas
...something reciprocally glorious, in the peculiarity and honour of our suffering with Him. J. SHEPPARD. 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... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1860 - 1008 páginas
...that this is a passage to be " chewed and digested." We do not believe that Thucydides himself has anywhere compressed so much thought into so small...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... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1897 - 954 páginas
...digested." We do not believe that Thucydides himself lias anywhere compressed so much thought into so smal. a space. In the additions which Bacon afterwards made...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... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Richard Whately - 1861 - 630 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 1 Sen. Ad LucU. 66. ' Sen. Ad Lucil. 53. ' Poesy. Poetry— ' Musick and Poesy... | |
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