 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...  The North British Review - Strona 111857Pełny widok - Informacje o książce
 | Homer Baxter Sprague - 1878 - Liczba stron: 445
...pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon. Prosperity is not without many fears and...adversity is not without comforts and hopes. We see iu needleworks and embroideries, it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad and solemn ground,... | |
 | Charles Sears Baldwin - 1897 - Liczba stron: 53
...pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon. Prosperity is not without many fears and...distastes ; and adversity is not without comforts anrl hopes. 40 We see in needleworks and embroideries, it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon... | |
 | Henry Augustin Beers - 1898 - Liczba stron: 317
...pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon. Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes ; and adversity is not without comfort and hopes. We see in needle-works and embroideries it is more pleasing to have a lively work... | |
 | Frederick Saunders, Minnie K. Davis - 1899 - Liczba stron: 743
...afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon. Prosperity is not without many fears and dLtastes; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. We...work upon a lightsome ground: judge, therefore, of tt* pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly, virtue is like precious odon, me.... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1899 - Liczba stron: 697
...pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon. Prosperity is not without many fears and...and adversity is not without comforts and hopes." In the essay on "Studies," which is one of the most compact and thoughtful of them all, we find the... | |
 | Henry Augustin Beers - 1899 - Liczba stron: 325
...pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon. Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes ; and adversity is not without comfort and hopes. We see in needle-works and embroideries it is more pleasing to have a lively work... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Mrs. Henry Pott - 1900 - Liczba stron: 303
...the New, which carrieth the greater benediction, and the clearer revelation of God's favour. . . . Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes,...and adversity is not without comforts and hopes." — Ess. of Adversity. " Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, For wise men say it is the wisest course."... | |
 | Robert Chambers, David Patrick - 1901
...of Job than the felicities of Solomon. Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes ; and ad . ions cherished by Shakespeare through life ; for example (11. 1240-1246) : For men have marble, w ha« a lively work upon a sad and solemn ground, than to have a dark and melancholy work upon a lightsome... | |
 | 1901
...pencil of thi> Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of J'»b than the felicities of Solomon. Prosperity is not without many fears and...distastes ; and Adversity is not without comforts »n«l hopes. We see in needleworks and embroideries it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon... | |
 | Charles Sears Baldwin - 1902 - Liczba stron: 451
...the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon. Prosperity is not without many fears and 30 distastes; and adversity is not without comforts and...ground. Judge therefore of the pleasure of the heart by 35 the pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed... | |
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