 ... Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament ; adversity is the blessing of the New, 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 hear...  The Church - Page 2181864Full view - About this book
 | J. C. - 1806 - 156 pages
...faint idea how we appropriated the long summer day, and the winter's contracted one. THE SAGE EDNOR. " Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes...; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. The good things which belong to prosperity are to be wished ; but the good things which belong to adversity... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1818 - 312 pages
...if you listen to 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...afflictions of Job, than the felicities of Solomon. OF SIMULATION AND DISSIMULATION. 17 Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes ; and Adversity... | |
 | Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - 1821 - 402 pages
...Testament, if you listen to David's harp, you shall hear as many herselike airs as carols ; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more in describing...embroideries, it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon . sad and solemn ground, than to have a dark and melancholy work upon a lightsome ground ; judge therefore... | |
 | Thomas Bowdler - 1824 - 336 pages
...Testament, if you listen to 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...afflictions of Job, than the felicities of Solomon.' " * The writer of this Memoir is tempted to add some extracts from an Imitation of the Thirteenth Satire... | |
 | Thomas Bowdler - 1824 - 342 pages
...Testament, if you listen to 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...afflictions of Job, than the felicities of Solomon.'" * The writer of this Memoir is tempted to add some extracts from an Imitation of the Thirteenth Satire... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1825 - 550 pages
...Testament, if you listen to 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...adversity is not without comforts and hopes. We see in needle works and embroideries, it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad and solemn ground,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 538 pages
...Testament, if you listen to 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...adversity is not without comforts and hopes. We see in needle works and embroideries, it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad and solemn ground,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 524 pages
...Testament, if you listen to 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...adversity is not without comforts and hopes. We see in needle works and embroideries, it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad and solemn ground,... | |
 | Thomas Bowdler - 1825 - 364 pages
...Testament, if you listen to 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...afflictions of Job, than the felicities of Solomon.' " * The writer of this Memoir is tempted to add some extracts from an Imitation of the Thirteenth Satire... | |
 | Solomon Southwick - 1827 - 156 pages
...Testament, if you listen to 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...afflictions of Job, than the felicities of Solomon. NOTE IT. The following Proclamation, was issued by the Governor, agreeably to its date, for the discovery... | |
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