The Quest of the Chief Good: Expository Lectures on the Book Ecclesiastes : with a New TranslationArthur Miall, 1867 - 320 |
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Strona viii
... sense , they will also discover , I hope , that the new sense of these passages is at least as instructive as the old , and that the whole " Book gains in coherence , in clearness , in power . They may rely - and here I am simply antici ...
... sense , they will also discover , I hope , that the new sense of these passages is at least as instructive as the old , and that the whole " Book gains in coherence , in clearness , in power . They may rely - and here I am simply antici ...
Strona xiii
... Sense of its Perils ; 175 ( 2 ) And the Conviction that it is opposed to the Will of God as expressed ( a ) in the Ordinances of His Providence , 175-6 ( b ) In the Wrongs which He permits Men to inflict upon us ; . 176-7 ( c ) But ...
... Sense of its Perils ; 175 ( 2 ) And the Conviction that it is opposed to the Will of God as expressed ( a ) in the Ordinances of His Providence , 175-6 ( b ) In the Wrongs which He permits Men to inflict upon us ; . 176-7 ( c ) But ...
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... sense and power unrebuked ; when this seemed to be the rule of Providence , the law of the Divine administration , and not that better rule revealed in his Scriptures : is it any wonder that , forgetting all corrective and balancing ...
... sense and power unrebuked ; when this seemed to be the rule of Providence , the law of the Divine administration , and not that better rule revealed in his Scriptures : is it any wonder that , forgetting all corrective and balancing ...
Strona 35
... sense of the term , was unknown ; every Babylonian woman , however highborn and delicately reared , having to pros- titute herself once in her life as an act of religious duty in the temple of Beltis . The pleasures of the table were ...
... sense of the term , was unknown ; every Babylonian woman , however highborn and delicately reared , having to pros- titute herself once in her life as an act of religious duty in the temple of Beltis . The pleasures of the table were ...
Strona 53
... the miseries inflicted on the Jews , and their keen sense of them , quite as graphic and intense as that of the Preacher . Here are a few phrases of equity there was iniquity ; * kings grew childish INTRODUCTION . 53.
... the miseries inflicted on the Jews , and their keen sense of them , quite as graphic and intense as that of the Preacher . Here are a few phrases of equity there was iniquity ; * kings grew childish INTRODUCTION . 53.
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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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Strona 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.
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Strona 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.
Strona 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.
Strona 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?
Strona 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.
Strona 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.