| Laurence Sterne, Sir Walter Scott - 1832 - 542 pagina’s
...appearances ; and, as the wise man complains, hardly do we guess aright at the things that are upon the earth ; and with labour do we find the things that are before us. But here the mind has all the evidence and facts within herself; — is conscious of the web she has... | |
| Laurence Sterne - 1832 - 416 pagina’s
...appearances; and, as the wise man complains, hardly do we guess aright at the things that are upon the earth ; and with labour do we find the things that are before us. But here the mind has all the evidence and facts within herself ; — is conscious of the web she has... | |
| Sarah Austin - 1833 - 322 pagina’s
...the earthy tabernacle weigheth down the mind that museth upon many things. 16 And hardly do we guess aright at things that are upon earth, and with labour do we find the things that are before us : but the things that are in heaven who hath searched out? 17 And thy counsel who hath known, except... | |
| 1842 - 800 pagina’s
...the earthly habitation presseth down the mind, that museth upon many things; and hardly do we guess aright at things that are upon earth, and with labour do we find the things that are before us.'' (Sap. ix. 15.) But, then, the meek shall possess this land in perpetual peace : and its law shall no... | |
| Edward Berens - 1836 - 442 pagina’s
...without reason, therefore, that the author of the Book of Wisdom exclaimed, " Hardly " do we guess aright at things that are upon "earth, and with labour do we find the " things that are before us : but the things " that are in heaven, who hath searched "out1?" "Behold, God is great," says 1 Wisdom... | |
| Baden Powell - 1838 - 376 pagina’s
...reflection or reverence to confess that we are necessarily ignorant. ' Hardly do we guess aright of things that are upon earth, and with labour do we find the things that are before us; but the things that are in Heaven who hath searched out P1" — Wisd. ix. 16. I must observe that,... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1839 - 468 pagina’s
...hath no way of giving permanence to things but by reducing them to abstractions. Hardly do we guess aright at things that are upon earth, and with labour do we find the things that are before us ; but all certain knowledge is in the power of God, and a presence from above. So only have the ways... | |
| William Whewell, Caleb Sprague Henry - 1839 - 252 pagina’s
...the speculative exercise of their intellectual powers. " Hardly," says the Wise man*, " do we guess aright at things that are upon earth, and with labour do we find the things that are before us : but the things that are * Wisd. ix. 16. in heaven who hatfa searched out ?" — Hardly, we may add,... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1839 - 490 pagina’s
...hath no way of giving permanence to things but by reducing them to abstractions. Hardly do we guess aright at things that are upon earth, and with labour do we find the things that are before us ; but all certain knowledge is in the. power of God, and a presence from above. So only have the ways... | |
| Edward Tatham - 1840 - 810 pagina’s
...thought, as in sublimity of expression : " Hardly do we guess aright at the things that are upon the earth, and with labour do we find the things that are before us ; but the things that are in heaven, who hath searched out, — Thy counsel who hath known, — except... | |
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