Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. We see in needleworks and embroideries, it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad and solemn ground, than to have a dark and melancholy work... Shakspere Weighed in an Even Balance - Seite 14von Alfred Pownall - 1864 - 86 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Henry Lewis (M.A.) - 1869 - 196 Seiten
...carols; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon. Prosperity is not without...have a lively work upon a sad and solemn ground, than a dark and melancholy work upon a lightsome ground : judge therefore of the pleasure of the heart by... | |
| Charles Haddon Spurgeon - 1870 - 688 Seiten
...carols; and the pencil of the Holy Spirit hath laboured more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon. Prosperity is not without...upon a lightsome ground ; judge, therefore, of the pleasures of the heart by the pleasures of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours — most... | |
| Thomas Budd Shaw, William Smith - 1850 - 492 Seiten
...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...without comforts and hopes. We see in needle-works and embroidjeries, it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad ami solemn ground, than to have... | |
| Giles Badger Stebbins - 1872 - 408 Seiten
...carols ; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solo*mon. Prosperity is not without...fears and distastes ; and adversity is not without comfort and hopes. We see in needleworks and embroideries it is more pleasing to have a lively work... | |
| Giles Badger Stebbins - 1872 - 416 Seiten
...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 comfort and hopes. We see in needleworks and embroideries it is more pleasing to have a lively work... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1873 - 266 Seiten
...carols : and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon. Prosperity is not without...embroideries, it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad2 and solemn ground, than to have a dark and melancholy work upon a lightsome ground : judge, therefore,... | |
| Frederick A. Laing - 1873 - 262 Seiten
...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,... | |
| E S. P - 1874 - 588 Seiten
...; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more in . describing the afflictions of Job than j the felicities of Solomon. Prosperity , is not without...lively work upon a sad and solemn ground, than to bave a dark and melancholy work upon a lightsome ground. Jndge, therefore, of the pleasure of the heart... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1874 - 700 Seiten
...carols; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities' of Solomon. Prosperity is not without...is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad 2 and solemn ground, than to have a dark and melancholy work upon a lightsome ground: judge, therefore,... | |
| Wesleyan Reform Union of Churches - 1874 - 432 Seiten
...carols; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon. Prosperity is not without...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.... | |
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