 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
 | Isaiah Mench Chambers - 1906 - 538 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 favor." — Francis Bacon, "Essays." TIMES have changed with us, wife," said Man-of-theWorld,... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1906 - 764 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. Yet, even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's harp, you shall... | |
 | 1908 - 282 páginas
...fashion, supposed, in worldly greatness, but in poverty, sorrow, obloquy, persecution. Cf. Bacon : " Prosperity is the Blessing of the Old Testament; Adversity...carrieth the greater Benediction, and the clearer Revelation of God's Favour." 3. " I hold them to be poor in spirit who are broken in will" (San Pedro... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1909 - 360 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 favor. Yet even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's harp, you shall... | |
 | Harold Begbie - 1911 - 328 páginas
...necessity in all human difficulties for a reference to the Cross. He spoke about life's inevitable sorrow. "Prosperity is the Blessing of the Old Testament;...carrieth the greater Benediction, and the Clearer Revelation of God's Favour ... the Pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more in describing the Afflictions... | |
 | 1912 - 812 páginas
...earth to have a man's mind move in Charity, rest in Providence, and turn upon the poles of Truth.' ' 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 Maynard Leonard - 1912 - 788 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. Yet even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's harp, you shall... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1913 - 824 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... | |
 | William Henry Hudson - 1914 - 362 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. Yet even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's harp, you shall... | |
 | Ernest Rhys - 1915 - 518 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... | |
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