 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 287de Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1852 - 744 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Henry Reed - 1855 - 404 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 ;...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... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1856 - 770 páginas
...richer uni sifter. The following passage, first published in 1635, will show the extent of the charge: " Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament, adversity...benediction and the clearer evidences of God's favour. Yet, eren in the Old Testament, if you listen t David's harp you shall hear as many hearselike airs as carols... | |
 | Cortlandt Van Rensselaer - 1856 - 708 páginas
...every day for the cultivation of our minds and despatch of business. liats. PROSPERITY AND ADVERSITY. PROSPERITY is the blessing of the Old Testament ;...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 yon shall... | |
 | 1856 - 702 páginas
...every day for the cultivation of our minds and despatch of business. Kints. PROSPERITY AND ADVERSITY. PROSPERITY is the blessing of the Old Testament ;...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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1856 - 406 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. Yet even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's harp, you shall... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1856 - 562 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 Lucil. 66. ' Sen. Ad Lucil. 53. 3 Poesy. Poetry — ' Musick and Poesy... | |
 | William Henry Smith - 1857 - 190 páginas
...mathematicians, subtle ; natural philosophy, deep ; morals, grave ; logic and rhetoric, able to contend." The following passage, first published in 1625, will...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 will hear... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Richard Whately - 1857 - 578 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 Lucil. 66. " Sen. Ad Lucil. 53. 3 Poesy. Poetry — ' Musick and Poesy... | |
 | 1857 - 632 páginas
...well."* We believe that the explanation of his improvement is to be found in the Essay on Adversity. " 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... | |
 | 1857 - 770 páginas
...beholden unto them ; for he doth most for them, and they do ordinarily least for him." And again, — •'Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament...which carrieth the greater benediction and the clearer revelation of God's power." Cowper's parallel between the French infidel philosopher and the religious... | |
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