Ecclesiastes: Or, The Confessions of an Adventurous Soul : a Practical Application of the Book of Koheleth Called "Ecclesiastes"Macmillan, 1916 - 237 pages |
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66 Ecclesiastes accept beast beauty better Bible blessed Book of Ecclesiastes chap Chapter Cheyne Christian cloud comfort conclusion confession Council of Jamnia creature cynic dark death Delitzsch despair Divine doubt dreams earth Epicurean Epilogue eternity everything evil experience faith Father fear fool Ginsburg God's goeth hand happy hath hear heart Heaven Hebrew hope human immortality inspired Israel Job and Solomon John Milton judgment king knoweth Koheleth labour learnt light living look Lord lost M'Neile man's Matthew Arnold meliorist mind mood moral mystery never night Old Testament Omar Khayyám peace philosophy pleasure Plumptre poor Preacher prophets proverbial religion revelation rich righteous Sanday says song sorrow soul spirit teaching thee things Thomas à Kempis thou thought to-day triumph truth Twice-told Tales unto vanity verses viii whilst William Morris wisdom wise words worship youth
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Page 117 - What though the radiance which was once so bright Be now for ever taken from my sight, Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower...
Page 1 - Does the road wind up-hill all the way? Yes, to the very end. Will the day's journey take the whole long day? From morn to night, my friend. But is there for the night a resting-place? A roof for when the slow dark hours begin. May not the darkness hide it from my face? You cannot miss that inn.
Page 178 - I SHOT an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For, so swiftly it flew, the sight Could not follow it in its flight. I breathed a song into the air, It fell to earth, 1 knew not where ; For who has sight so keen and strong.
Page 181 - Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; And let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, And walk in the ways of thine heart, And in the sight of thine eyes: But know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment.
Page 153 - I returned and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.
Page 163 - The tumult and the shouting dies; The captains and the kings depart; Still stands Thine ancient sacrifice, An humble and a contrite heart: Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet, Lest we forget, lest we forget!
Page 19 - The wages of sin is death : if the wages of Virtue be dust, Would she have heart to endure for the life of the worm and the fly ? She desires no isles of the blest, no quiet seats of the just, To rest in a golden grove, or to bask in a summer sky : Give her the wages of going on, and not to die.
Page 29 - I remember, I remember Where I was used to swing, And thought the air must rush as fresh To swallows on the wing ; My spirit flew in feathers then That is so heavy now, And summer pools could hardly cool The fever on my brow. I remember, I remember...
Page 89 - My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky: So was it when my life began ; So is it now I am a man ; So be it when I shall grow old, Or let me die! The child is father of the man; And I could wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural piety.
Page 97 - When goods increase, they are increased that eat them: and what good is there to the owners thereof, saving the beholding of them with their eyes?