The Quest of the Chief Good: Expository Lectures on the Book Ecclesiastes : with a New TranslationArthur Miall, 1867 - 320 sider |
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... stand highest tell us that it would be just as easy for them to believe that Hooker wrote Blair's Sermons , or that Shakespeare wrote the plays of Sheridan Knowles , or that Lord Bacon wrote Tupper's Proverbial Philosophy- and ...
... stand highest tell us that it would be just as easy for them to believe that Hooker wrote Blair's Sermons , or that Shakespeare wrote the plays of Sheridan Knowles , or that Lord Bacon wrote Tupper's Proverbial Philosophy- and ...
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... stand . There are many such arguments , however ; argu- ments , as it seems to me , of a most conclusive force . As , for instance , this : -The whole social state described . in this Book is utterly unlike what we know to have been the ...
... stand . There are many such arguments , however ; argu- ments , as it seems to me , of a most conclusive force . As , for instance , this : -The whole social state described . in this Book is utterly unlike what we know to have been the ...
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... stands on both sides of the Thames ; but it was " nearly five times the size of London . " It covered at least a hundred square miles , and was defended by broad massive walls of a hundred feet in height and about forty miles in ...
... stands on both sides of the Thames ; but it was " nearly five times the size of London . " It covered at least a hundred square miles , and was defended by broad massive walls of a hundred feet in height and about forty miles in ...
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... stands for both in the Bible ) , so unlike the sunny cliffs and scattered villages of their native land , the Jews , who like all hill- races had a passionate affection for the land of their fathers , spent many bitter years . On these ...
... stands for both in the Bible ) , so unlike the sunny cliffs and scattered villages of their native land , the Jews , who like all hill- races had a passionate affection for the land of their fathers , spent many bitter years . On these ...
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... stand against it , if an able ruler , was the most cruel , perhaps the only ferocious and blood- thirsty , despot of the Persian dynasty . We need not trace the various issues of this " battle of kites and crows . " From the accession ...
... stand against it , if an able ruler , was the most cruel , perhaps the only ferocious and blood- thirsty , despot of the Persian dynasty . We need not trace the various issues of this " battle of kites and crows . " From the accession ...
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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.