The Quest of the Chief Good: Expository Lectures on the Book Ecclesiastes : with a New TranslationArthur Miall, 1867 - 320 pagina's |
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Pagina xiii
... Wrongs which He permits Men to inflict upon us ; . 176-7 ( c ) But above all in the im- mortal Cravings which He has quickened in the Soul 177-8 ( g ) Practical Maxims deduced from this View of the Business - Life ( 1 ) A Maxim on Co ...
... Wrongs which He permits Men to inflict upon us ; . 176-7 ( c ) But above all in the im- mortal Cravings which He has quickened in the Soul 177-8 ( g ) Practical Maxims deduced from this View of the Business - Life ( 1 ) A Maxim on Co ...
Pagina xiv
... Wrongs ( c ) The Preacher condemns this Theory of 195-6 196-8 • • 198-200 Human Life HORTATORY APPLICATION ( A ) The Quest in Wealth 200-2 202-220 205-11 ( a ) The Man who makes Riches his Chief xiv THE TABLE OF CONTENTS .
... Wrongs ( c ) The Preacher condemns this Theory of 195-6 196-8 • • 198-200 Human Life HORTATORY APPLICATION ( A ) The Quest in Wealth 200-2 202-220 205-11 ( a ) The Man who makes Riches his Chief xiv THE TABLE OF CONTENTS .
Pagina xv
... Wrongs 218-19 ( c ) The Preacher condemns this Theory of Human Life 219-20 § 5 THE QUEST ACHIEVED . 221-63 ( a ) The Chief Good not to be found in Wisdom : 222-26 ( b Nor in Pleasure : PAGES 226-28 ( c THE TABLE OF CONTENTS . XV.
... Wrongs 218-19 ( c ) The Preacher condemns this Theory of Human Life 219-20 § 5 THE QUEST ACHIEVED . 221-63 ( a ) The Chief Good not to be found in Wisdom : 222-26 ( b Nor in Pleasure : PAGES 226-28 ( c THE TABLE OF CONTENTS . XV.
Pagina 8
... wrongs of Time with the hope of Immortality . To scholars deeply versed in the niceties of Oriental languages , the most convincing proof of the comparatively modern date and authorship of this Book is to be found in its words , and ...
... wrongs of Time with the hope of Immortality . To scholars deeply versed in the niceties of Oriental languages , the most convincing proof of the comparatively modern date and authorship of this Book is to be found in its words , and ...
Pagina 17
... wrongs and oppressions of the Persian Captivity . As for the form and design of the Book there is no question that it sets before us the Quest of the Summum Bonum , the Search for the Chief Good . Its main im- mediate design was to ...
... wrongs and oppressions of the Persian Captivity . As for the form and design of the Book there is no question that it sets before us the Quest of the Summum Bonum , the Search for the Chief Good . Its main im- mediate design was to ...
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Babylonian beast better Book of Esther brief day caprice Captivity Chap cheerful Chief children of men Coheleth comfort conclusion craving dark death delights despot devotion Divine duty earth empire enjoy enjoyment evil eyes faith fathers favour fear folly fool foolish gains give goeth Golden Mean hand happy hath heart heaven Hebrew Preacher Herodotus hope human Jerusalem Jews judgment king labour laws learned Literally live look Maurice de Guérin means mirth moral nature neighbours noble oppressions Ormazd Persian Persian Empire pleasure Prudence put eternity Quest Rabbi race reign reward riches righteous rule sacred satisfied satraps saw IV Scriptures seek selfish sense Solomon soul Talmud temper things thou thought tion toil true trust truth utter vanity and vexation Vanity of vanities VERSE vexation of spirit VIII wealth wicked wisdom wise words worship Xerxes
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Pagina 307 - In the corrupted currents of this world Offence's gilded hand may shove by justice, And oft 'tis seen the wicked prize itself Buys out the law...
Pagina 10 - And Judah and Israel dwelt safely, every man under his vine and under his figtree, from Dan even to Beer-sheba, all the days of Solomon.
Pagina 248 - Let the field be joyful, and all that is therein : then shall all the trees of the wood rejoice before • the Lord : For he cometh, for he cometh to judge the earth : he shall judge the world with righteousness, and the people with his truth.
Pagina 62 - Persia, that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and put it also in writing, saying, thus saith Cyrus, king of Persia, the Lord God of heaven hath given me all the kingdoms of the earth ; and he hath charged me to build him an house at Jerusalem, which is in Judah.
Pagina 122 - I CHATTER over stony ways, In little sharps and trebles, I bubble into eddying bays, I babble on the pebbles. With many a curve my banks I fret By many a field and fallow, And many a fairy foreland set With willow-weed and mallow.
Pagina 56 - And maiden virtue rudely strumpeted, And right perfection wrongfully disgraced, And strength by limping sway disabled, And art made tongue-tied by authority, And folly doctor-like controlling skill, And simple truth miscall'd simplicity, And captive good attending captain ill.
Pagina 83 - Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thine heart be hasty to utter any thing before God: for God is in heaven, and thou upon earth : therefore let thy words be few.
Pagina 131 - For who would bear the whips and scorns of time, The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely, The pangs of despised love, the law's delay, The insolence of office, and the spurns That patient merit of the unworthy takes, When he himself might his quietus make With a bare bodkin?
Pagina 122 - I steal by lawns and grassy plots, ' I slide by hazel covers; I move the sweet forget-me-nots That grow for happy lovers.
Pagina 314 - Who God doth late and early pray More of his grace than gifts to lend; And entertains the harmless day With a religious book or friend — This man is freed from servile bands Of hope to rise or fear to fall: Lord of himself, though not of lands, And, having nothing, yet hath all.