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 15
... rule over only this staff . ' " We cannot but love this story for its beauty and pathos : and , though of course we must not accept it as history , we may learn from it that , even in the judgment of the Rabbis , the Book Ecclesiastes ...
... rule over only this staff . ' " We cannot but love this story for its beauty and pathos : and , though of course we must not accept it as history , we may learn from it that , even in the judgment of the Rabbis , the Book Ecclesiastes ...
Side 18
... rule will receive a triumphant solution . Instead of setting forth these truths in a meta- physical treatise , or a moral essay , or even in an authentic biography , our author throws them into a dramatic form . Availing himself of the ...
... rule will receive a triumphant solution . Instead of setting forth these truths in a meta- physical treatise , or a moral essay , or even in an authentic biography , our author throws them into a dramatic form . Availing himself of the ...
Side 20
... 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 facts , he was racked with torments of perplexity ; that ...
... 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 facts , he was racked with torments of perplexity ; that ...
Side 40
... rule . One of his earliest acts was the privy murder of his brother Smerdis . From his sin sprang his punishment . So secretly was the murder effected that the very fact of his brother's death was doubted , and thus an opportunity was ...
... rule . One of his earliest acts was the privy murder of his brother Smerdis . From his sin sprang his punishment . So secretly was the murder effected that the very fact of his brother's death was doubted , and thus an opportunity was ...
Side 113
... rules of his art , the dramatic Preacher brings men upon the stage of his poem , permits us to hear their most secret charac- teristic utterances , and thus enables us to conceive and judge them . He is true to his artistic canons from ...
... rules of his art , the dramatic Preacher brings men upon the stage of his poem , permits us to hear their most secret charac- teristic utterances , and thus enables us to conceive and judge them . He is true to his artistic canons from ...
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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.