 | Job (the patriarch) - 1860 - 204 pagina’s
...VEESE. BY THE EARL OF WINCHILSEA, (LATE VISCOUNT MAIDSTONE.) " The pencil of the Holy Ghost has labour'd more In describing the afflictions of * Job than the felicities of Solomon." — BACON'S ESSAYS. LONDON: SMITH, ELDER AND CO., 65, CORNHILL. M.DCCC.LX. PBEFACE. No man who ever... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1861 - 422 pagina’s
...peneil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more in deseribing the afflietions of Job than the felieities of Solomon. Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes ; and adversity is not without eomforts and hopes. We see in needleworks and embroideries it is more pleasing to have a lively work... | |
 | Edmund Bailey O'Callaghan - 1861 - 496 pagina’s
...Verse. | By Abraham Rowley. | Ye have heard, Ac., James, Chap. 5, v. 11. | The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more in describing the afflictions of Job, than | the felicities of Solomon. Lord Bacon. \ Boston : | Printed by J. II. A. Frost, | Congress-street. | 1825. | (B.) 8. Pp. 24: The... | |
 | John Baillie - 1862 - 40 pagina’s
...Hewitson" £c. " I was an hungered, and ye gave me meat ; naked, and ye clothed me.— MATT, xxv, 85, 36. " Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes...and adversity is not without comforts and hopes." — LOKD BACON. profits to bx gtjjplicb- io % gtlitf of % gli LONDON : JAMES NISBET, BEENEE'S STEEET.... | |
 | 1862 - 972 pagina’s
...harp, you ehall hear as many hearse-like airs as carols — and the pencils of the Holy Ghost have laboured more in describing the afflictions of Job, than the felicities of Solomon." — Bacon. SELF-DENIAL. îy order to gain a correct idea of this lofty virtue, it ie necessary to establish... | |
 | 1864 - 704 pagina’s
...harp, you shall hear as many hearse-like airs as carols ; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost has labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the...have a lively work upon a sad and solemn ground, than 438 ADVERSITY. to have a dark and melancholy work upon a lightsome ground : judge, therefore, of the... | |
 | Wise sayings - 1864 - 394 pagina’s
...to David's harp, you shall hear as many funereal airs as carols ; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more in describing the afflictions of...; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. Essay on Adversity. — LORD BACON. ADVICE. Insincerity in asking Nothing is less sincere than our... | |
 | John Kirk - 1864 - 448 pagina’s
...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...; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. —BACON. EVEN in our own days, the position of many clergymen in the Church of England, and many ministers... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1864 - 638 pagina’s
...pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more in desrribing the afflictions of Job than the felicitiesi of Solomon. Prosperity is not without many fears and...without comforts and hopes. We see in needleworks aud embroideries, it is more pleasing to have a lively work iilon a sad2 and solemn ground, than to... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864 - 554 pagina’s
...; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more in describing the afflictions of Job than tha felicities of Solomon. Prosperity is not without many...adversity is not without comforts and hopes. We see in needle works and embroideries, it is more pleasing to have a li vely work upon a sad and solemn ground,... | |
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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. 
