 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...  Supplement to the Courant - Seite 561855Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Augusta Browne - 1859 - 348 Seiten
...airs as carols ; and the pencil of the Holy Spirit hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon. Prosperity is not without many fears and distrusts ; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. "VVe see, in needleworks and embroideries,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1860 - 1008 Seiten
...airs as carols ; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon. Prosperity...; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. W« see in needleworks and embroideries it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad and solemn... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1861 - 422 Seiten
...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... | |
 | John Baillie - 1862 - 40 Seiten
...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.... | |
 | 1864 - 704 Seiten
...hearse-like airs as carols ; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost has labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon. Prosperity...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 Seiten
...airs as carols ; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon, Prosperity...; 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 Seiten
...airs, as carols : and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon. Prosperity...; 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... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864 - 554 Seiten
...; 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,... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1864 - 638 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Heart cheer, Charles BULLOCK (B.D.) - 1865 - 208 Seiten
...airs as carols ; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon. Prosperity...melancholy work upon a lightsome ground : judge, therefore, the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like pre cious odours, most... | |
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