The Quest of the Chief Good: Expository Lectures on the Book Ecclesiastes : with a New TranslationArthur Miall, 1867 - 320 sider |
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... authority seem at all disposed to furnish them with one . The best Commentaries of the day are not written for them , nor popularized for their use . And meantime , with no parade Of Hebrew or Greek To make them afraid , many of the ...
... authority seem at all disposed to furnish them with one . The best Commentaries of the day are not written for them , nor popularized for their use . And meantime , with no parade Of Hebrew or Greek To make them afraid , many of the ...
Side viii
... authority on all that pertains to the Book Eccle- siastes . In common with all students of this Book , I am profoundly indebted to him . He has given seven years of learned leisure to this Scripture ; and in his " Critical Commentary ...
... authority on all that pertains to the Book Eccle- siastes . In common with all students of this Book , I am profoundly indebted to him . He has given seven years of learned leisure to this Scripture ; and in his " Critical Commentary ...
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... authority and honest Goodchild in the workhouse or the Gazette ; when we see the fraudu- lent contractor lifted to the peerage , or stockbrokers who have rigged the market and railway directors who have sworn to false balance - sheets ...
... authority and honest Goodchild in the workhouse or the Gazette ; when we see the fraudu- lent contractor lifted to the peerage , or stockbrokers who have rigged the market and railway directors who have sworn to false balance - sheets ...
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... authority were still further slackened during his long inglorious reign . At his death there naturally occurred a period of anarchy from which one prince rose after another in quick succession , some of them reigning only for a few ...
... authority were still further slackened during his long inglorious reign . At his death there naturally occurred a period of anarchy from which one prince rose after another in quick succession , some of them reigning only for a few ...
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... authority to accredit such stories as these : wretches basti- nadoed by the king's order declared themselves ... authorities for this almost incredible description . He gives chapter and verse for every item in it in his " Five ...
... authority to accredit such stories as these : wretches basti- nadoed by the king's order declared themselves ... authorities for this almost incredible description . He gives chapter and verse for every item in it in his " Five ...
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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.