 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 Job than the felicities of Solomon.  The British Prose Writers - Page 191821Full view - About this book
 | 1864 - 704 pages
...happiness of human kind. — Edward Irving. THE BLESSING OP ADVERSITY. PROSPERITY is the blessing of the CM Testament ; adversity is the blessing of the New,...which carrieth the greater benediction and the clearer révélation of God's favour. Yet, even ia the Old Testament, if you listen to David's harp, you shall... | |
 | Basil Montagu, Hannah Mary Rathbone - 1845 - 396 pages
...But to speak in a mean, the virtue of prosperity is temperance, the virtue of adversity is fortitude, which in morals is the more heroical virtue. Prosperity...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 hear as many hearse-like... | |
 | 1846 - 302 pages
...But to speak in a mean. The virtue of Prosperity is Temperance; the virtue of Adversity is Fortitude, which in morals is the more heroical virtue Prosperity...Testament, if you listen to David's harp, you shall hear a> many hearse-like airs as carols. And the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more, in describing... | |
 | 1846 - 308 pages
...But to speak in a mean. The virtue of Prosperity is Temperance; the virtue of Adversity is Fortitude, which in morals is the more heroical virtue Prosperity...of God's favour. Yet even in the Old Testament, if yon listen to David's harp, you shall hear ai many hearse-like airs as carols. And the pencil of the... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1846 - 782 pages
...richer and softer. The following passage, fi^t published in 1625, will show the extent of the change: ilton, it is said, inherited what his predecessors...enlightened age; he received a finished education ; and evidences of God's favour. Vet, even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's harp you shall... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 pages
...[Prosperity and Ádvtrsi/y.] The virtue of prosperity is temperance ; the virtue of adversity is fortitude. se he does under-ground in his cellar ; for he that...him worse in private, when he knows nothing of it. hearselike airs as carols ; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more in describing the afflictions... | |
 | General principles - 1847 - 132 pages
...singular and plural, as, " The virtue of prosperity is temperance, the virtue of adversity is fortitude, which in morals is the more heroical virtue. Prosperity...benediction, and the clearer revelation of God's favour."* " If he * Bacon's Essays. be compassionate towards the afflictions of others, it shews that his heart... | |
 | 1847 - 380 pages
...singular and plural, as, " The virtue of prosperity is temperance, the virtue of adversity is fortitude, which in morals is the more heroical virtue. Prosperity...greater benediction, and the clearer revelation of God's favor."* " If he be compassionate towards the afflictions of others, it shows that his heart is like... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 pages
...[Prosperity and Adversity.] The virtue of prosperity is temperance ; the virtue of adversity is fortitude. ives, when he his God can please. His bed of wool yields safe and quiet sleeps, preuter benediction and the clearer revelation of t.od'a favour. Yet even in the Old Testament, if... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1848 - 594 pages
...prosperity is temperance, the virtue of adversity is fortitude, which in morals is the more heroicaJ virtue. Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament,...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... | |
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