The Quest of the Chief Good: Expository Lectures on the Book Ecclesiastes : with a New TranslationArthur Miall, 1867 - 320 sider |
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Side x
... verse and verse , would not thereby be broken . My debts to other writers I have acknowledged as I have contracted them , with one exception . I chanced to be reading Epictetus at the time I wrote these Lectures ; and was not a little ...
... verse and verse , would not thereby be broken . My debts to other writers I have acknowledged as I have contracted them , with one exception . I chanced to be reading Epictetus at the time I wrote these Lectures ; and was not a little ...
Side 5
... set ourselves to study what it really is , high time that we replaced our customary examination of detached verses with INTRODUCTION . 5 (a) The Man who makes Riches his Chief Good is haunted by Fears and Perplexities 184-5.
... set ourselves to study what it really is , high time that we replaced our customary examination of detached verses with INTRODUCTION . 5 (a) The Man who makes Riches his Chief Good is haunted by Fears and Perplexities 184-5.
Side 6
... verses with a careful investigation of the history and scope of its separate books . Now if we care to give ourselves to this task , where shall we begin ? As we glance along the Biblical " Library , " in which there are so many volumes ...
... verses with a careful investigation of the history and scope of its separate books . Now if we care to give ourselves to this task , where shall we begin ? As we glance along the Biblical " Library , " in which there are so many volumes ...
Side 12
... verses in it which at first sight seem altogether opposed to such an inference . All the special and direct indications of ... verse therefore seems to fix the authorship on Solomon * The fourth century , B.C. , is its most probable date ...
... verses in it which at first sight seem altogether opposed to such an inference . All the special and direct indications of ... verse therefore seems to fix the authorship on Solomon * The fourth century , B.C. , is its most probable date ...
Side 37
... Exile in the Exposition of chap . xii . , verses 9 to 12 , and therefore need only allude to it here . been so skilful that Cyrus despaired of success . As INTRODUCTION . 37 (b) The Persian Period PAGES -THE EXPOSITION 111-320.
... Exile in the Exposition of chap . xii . , verses 9 to 12 , and therefore need only allude to it here . been so skilful that Cyrus despaired of success . As INTRODUCTION . 37 (b) The Persian Period PAGES -THE EXPOSITION 111-320.
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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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Side 307 - In the corrupted currents of this world Offence's gilded hand may shove by justice, And oft 'tis seen the wicked prize itself Buys out the law...
Side 10 - And Judah and Israel dwelt safely, every man under his vine and under his figtree, from Dan even to Beer-sheba, all the days of Solomon.
Side 248 - Let the field be joyful, and all that is therein : then shall all the trees of the wood rejoice before • the Lord : For he cometh, for he cometh to judge the earth : he shall judge the world with righteousness, and the people with his truth.
Side 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.
Side 122 - I CHATTER over stony ways, In little sharps and trebles, I bubble into eddying bays, I babble on the pebbles. With many a curve my banks I fret By many a field and fallow, And many a fairy foreland set With willow-weed and mallow.
Side 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.
Side 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.
Side 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?
Side 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.
Side 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.