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
| Frederick A. Laing - English language - 1873 - 264 pages
...I'BOSPEEITT AND ADVERSITY. " The virtue of prosperity is temperance ; the virtue of adversity is fortitude. Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes;...adversity is not without comforts and hopes. We see in needlework and embroideries, it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad and solemn ground,... | |
| Wesleyan Reform Union of Churches - 1874 - 432 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 hath...needleworks and embroideries, it is more pleasing to have lively work upon a sad and solemn ground than to have a dark and melancholy work upon a lightsome ground.... | |
| English literature - 1874 - 274 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 hath...Solomon. Prosperity is not without many fears and disasters, and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. We see in needle-works and embroideries,... | |
| Roy Bennett Pace - English literature - 1917 - 536 pages
...favor. 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...hath laboured more in describing the afflictions of 30 Job than the felicities of Solomon. Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes ; and adversity... | |
| Roy Bennett Pace - English literature - 1918 - 986 pages
...favor. 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...hath laboured more in describing the afflictions of 30 Job than the felicities of Solomon. Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes ; and adversity... | |
| Roy Bennett Pace - English literature - 1918 - 428 pages
...themselves as if not meant for parts of wholes. In the essay Of Adversity, for example, we read : " Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes...; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes; " this between a sentence dealing with the predominance of sadness over joy in the Old Testament, and... | |
| William George Fitz-Gerald - National characteristics, American - 1918 - 456 pages
...implicit law punished in the breach and favoured in the observance. It is true, as Bacon noted, that "the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more in...afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon." But such pencils are gaily edited in this New "World. Even its early Puritanism, as Professor Charming... | |
| John Todhunter - Essays (Irish) - 1920 - 180 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...afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon." This, in the Essay OJ Friendship, is quaintly expressed. " The Parable of Pythagoras is dark, but true,... | |
| Classical philology - 1923 - 346 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 felicities of Solomon. Prosperity is not without fears and distastes; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. We see in needleworks and embroideries... | |
| Christopher Birdwood Baron Thomson - Balkan Peninsula - 1922 - 216 pages
...cruel, vindictive and tyrannical, the very faults for which they blamed the Turks. As Bacon says : ' ' Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes...and adversity is not without comforts and hopes." While Servia groaned beneath the Turkish yoke, cycles of songs had fortified her faith and poetized... | |
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