 Yet even in the Old 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 the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.  Lord Macaulay's Essays and Lays of Ancient Rome - Page 410by Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1885 - 898 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Francis Bacon - 1867 - 440 pages
...balanced sentence would bo more perfect if it had closed with the word ' New.' Other examples of the [7] Yet, even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's...the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more in describing the afflictions of Job than kind in this Essay may be sought and pointed out. One advantage... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - 1867 - 782 pages
...the blessing of the New, which carrieth the greater l>enediction and the clearer revelation of God's favour. Yet, even in the Old Testament, if you listen...airs as carols ; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hnth laboured more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Sulomon." CANTO VII.... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - 1867 - 472 pages
...blessing of the New, which carrieth the greater benediction and the clearer revelation of God's favor. Yet, even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's...as carols ; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon." CANTO VII. I. "... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - 1867 - 458 pages
...blessing of the New , which carrieth the greater benediction and the clearer revelation of God's favor. Yet, even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's...airs as carols; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon." CANTO VH. 1. "Hosanna,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1868 - 786 pages
...Medium. 'Temperance, with golden square, Betwixt them both can measure out a mean.' — Shakespere. favour. Yet even in the Old Testament, if you listen...the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities1 of Solomon. Prosperity is not without many fears... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, William Smith - 1869 - 420 pages
...blessing of the New, which carrieth the greater benediction, and the clearer revelation of God's favor. Yet even in the Old Testament, If you listen to David's...airs as 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... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - 1870 - 508 pages
...blessing of the New, which carrieth the greater benediction and the clearer revelation of God's favor. Yet, even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's...as carols ; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon. " CANTO VII. I. "... | |
 | 1883 - 252 pages
...greater benedictioa the clearer revelation of God's favor." "Yet," remarks Bacon in beautiful antithesis, "even In the Old Testament, If you listen to David's...airs as carols; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon." His essay on "Seeming... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1871 - 732 pages
...is the blessing of the New, which carrieth the greater benediction and the clearer evidence of God's favour. Yet, even in the Old Testament, if you listen...the 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... | |
 | 1872 - 556 pages
...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...the 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... | |
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