 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 - Page 1421821Full view - About this book
 | RICHARD WHATELY - 1868
...favour. Yet even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's harp, yon 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 felicities1 of Solomon. Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes ; and adversity is not without... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Conduct of life - 1868 - 641 pages
...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 felicities1 of Solomon. Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes ; and adversity is not without... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1868 - 388 pages
...if you Listen to Davids Harpe, you shall heare as many Herselike Ayres, as Carols : And the Pencill of the holy Ghost, hath laboured more, in describing, the Afflictions of lob, then the Felicities of Salomon. Prosperity is not without many Feares and Distastes; And Adversity... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Logic - 1869 - 379 pages
...Fastest, adv. Most closely: p. 18, 1. 26. Felicity, sb. Luck, good fortune: p. 227, 1. 15. 'The pencill of the holy Ghost, hath laboured more, in describing, the afflictions of lob, then the felicities of Salomon.' Essay vp 17. Find strange. To wonder: p. 78, 1. 14; p. 94, 1.... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, Sir William Smith - English literature - 1850 - 477 pages
...harp, you shall hear as many hearse-like airs as carols; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the...without comforts and hopes. We see in needle-works and embroidjeries, it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad ami solemn ground, than to have... | |
 | College student newspapers and periodicals - 1883
...harp, you shall hear as many hearse-like airs as carols; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon." His essay on "Seeming Wise" would serve as an excellent society sermon, so replete Is it with ridicule... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - 1870
...harp, you shall hear as many hearse-like airs as carols ; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon. " CANTO VII. I. " Hosanna, holy God of Sabaoth, illuminating with thy brightness the happy fires of... | |
 | Giles Badger Stebbins - Religious literature - 1872 - 400 pages
...harp, you shall hear as many hearse-like airs as carols ; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the...fears and distastes ; and adversity is not without comfort and hopes. We see in needleworks and embroideries it is more pleasing to have a lively work... | |
 | G.B. STEBBINS - 1872
...harp, you shall hear as many hearse-like airs as carols ; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the...fears and distastes ; and adversity is not without comfort and hopes. We see in needleworks and embroideries it is more pleasing to have a lively work... | |
 | Casket - 1873
...Yet, even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's harp, you «hall hear as many hearse-like s him no enemie-s, for he does nothing with sourness...forms makes him but the readier and more capable t » ithout many fears and distastes: and adversity U not without comforts and hopes. We sec in needle-works... | |
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