 Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. We see in needleworks and embroideries, it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad and solemn ground, than to have a dark and melancholy work...  Shakspere Weighed in an Even Balance - Page 14by Alfred Pownall - 1864 - 86 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Baillie - Great Britain - 1862 - 40 pages
...Hewitson" £c. " I was an hungered, and ye gave me meat ; naked, and ye clothed me.— MATT, xxv, 85, 36. " Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes...and adversity is not without comforts and hopes." — LOKD BACON. profits to bx gtjjplicb- io % gtlitf of % gli LONDON : JAMES NISBET, BEENEE'S STEEET.... | |
 | Christian life - 1864 - 704 pages
...carols ; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost has labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon. Prosperity is not without...have a lively work upon a sad and solemn ground, than 438 ADVERSITY. to have a dark and melancholy work upon a lightsome ground : judge, therefore, of the... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1864 - 638 pages
...pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more in desrribing the afflictions of Job than the felicitiesi of Solomon. Prosperity is not without many fears and...without comforts and hopes. We see in needleworks aud embroideries, it is more pleasing to have a lively work iilon a sad2 and solemn ground, than to... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864 - 554 pages
...; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more in describing the afflictions of Job than tha felicities of Solomon. Prosperity is not without many...adversity is not without comforts and hopes. We see in needle works and embroideries, it is more pleasing to have a li vely work upon a sad and solemn ground,... | |
 | John Kirk - 1864 - 448 pages
...carols : and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon. Prosperity is not without...; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. —BACON. EVEN in our own days, the position of many clergymen in the Church of England, and many ministers... | |
 | Wise sayings - Maxims - 1864 - 394 pages
...carols ; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon, Prosperity is not without...; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. Essay on Adversity. — LORD BACON. ADVICE. Insincerity in asking Nothing is less sincere than our... | |
 | Heart cheer, Charles BULLOCK (B.D.) - Consolation - 1865 - 208 pages
...carols ; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon. Prosperity is not without...melancholy work upon a lightsome ground : judge, therefore, the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like pre cious odours, most... | |
 | Thomas Babington baron Macaulay - 1866 - 734 pages
...carols ; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon. Prosperity is not without...solemn ground, than to have a dark and melancholy work «pon a lightsome ground. Judge therefore of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye.... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Conduct of life - 1868 - 694 pages
...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 and...embroideries, it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad2 and solemn ground, than to have a dark and melancholy work upon a lightsome ground: judge, therefore,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Conduct of life - 1868 - 786 pages
...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 and...needleworks and embroideries, it is more pleasing to have a li vely work upon a sad2 and solemn ground, than to have a dark and melancholy work upon a lightsome... | |
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