Scripture texts illustrated by general literature - Francis Jacox

INDEX.

Answer, a soft, wrath-dispelling, [357];
most exquisite revenge for reproaches, [358];
like healing balm, [359];
comes of practised patience, [359];
Illustrations from Alison, Sir Matthew Hale, Spenser, Decker, and others, [357-360].
Anticipations of the future, delusive, [333];
often crushed when nearest realization, [334];
when seeming fulfilled, extinguished by death, [336];
Illustrations from Homer, Michelet, Cowper, Mrs. Gaskell, and others, [333-337].
Anxious foreboding, forbidden by Scripture, [47];
deprecated by pagan philosophy, [48];
no preparation for coming ills, [48];
only causes a depression of spirits, [49];
and cripples energy, [50];
destroys present enjoyment, [51];
cannot see into the future, [52];
indulged in, breeds despair, [54];
remedy for, [54];
Illustrations from Hume, Swift, Schleiermacher, Longfellow, and others, [48-55].
Appetite, indulgence in, indecent, [249];
cause of death to royalty, [250];
inability of some to resist, [251];
allowed in Italy, in case of fatal sickness, [253];
a common weakness, [254];
Illustrations from Adam Smith, Gibbon, Tennyson, Gray, George Herbert, and others, [242-255].
Bargains, makers of, their tactics, [367];
depreciate when buying, [368];
exaggerate when selling, [369];
customs of different countries, [370];
horse-dealers, their tactics, [371];
an exception to the general rule of, [372];
Illustrations from A. K. H. B., Fuller, Leigh Hunt, Capt. Marryat, Kingsley, Plautus, and others, [367-372].
Beauty, but a clothed skeleton, [101];
all lost in the grave, [102];
only food for worms, [133];
Illustrations from Byron, Southey, Blair, Macaulay, and others, [100-104].
Beneficence, secret, an exception to the rule, [259];
dislike of, to thanks, [260];
of Wellington and Byron, [261];
finds a reward in itself, [262];
Illustrations from Chamfort, Goldsmith, Smollett, Cowper, and others, [259-262].
Childhood, everything may be hoped from, [382];
evanescence of promise in, [383];
retrospect of, shows how we have fallen, [384];
possibility of a noble future for all, [385];
much of the good in, checked from development, [386];
Illustrations from Dante, Adam Smith, Samuel Rogers, Baron Alderson, Charles Lamb, Dr. Caird, and others, [381-386].
Children, dying before their parents, an inversion of natural order, [182];
one of the greatest sorrows to man, [183];
the case of Mohammed cited, [184];
ruins the hopes of the parents, [186];
Citations from Canon Melvill, Edmund Burke, Moore, and others, [182-187].
Co-workers, all human beings, [348];
each in his place or degree, [349];
all required to account for their performance of their part, [350];
the difference in, not position, but how duties performed, [351];
all to one end, and that is with God, [352];
Illustrations from Coleridge, John Newton, Mrs. Gaskell, Colani, Milton, and others, [348-352].
Darkness, increases the sense of danger, [223];
and the bitterness of death, [324];
power of, over the guilty, [324];
natural dread of, in mankind, [326];
of coming death, rouses a longing for light, [327];
the concomitant of misery, [327];
Illustrations from Marlowe, Scott, Croly, Professor Newman, Lord Lytton, Dickens, and others, [323-328].
Death, sum and story of all humanity, [156];
the inevitable fate of all, [157];
a leveller of all distinctions and grades, [160];
even in Arcadia, [163];
the actions of the just blossom in, [165];
Illustrations from Addison, Barry Cornwall, James Montgomery, Gibbon, Warton, Prior, George Herbert, and others, [156-165].
Elements, the, God only can control, [233];
the folly of man commanding, [232];
all men subject to, [232];
folly of Xerxes cited, [233];
legends of power of priests over, [234];
the greatest conquerors, impotent against, [235];
moral application, [237];
Illustrations from Pepys, Longfellow, Gibbon, Carlyle, Cowper, and others, [231-237].
Falsity of friends, the sharpest pang of all, [201];
darkens man’s views of the moral government of God, [206];
shakes confidence in the whole world, [206];
David’s lament over, [208];
Illustrations from Colani, Milman, Longfellow, Corneille, Shakspeare, and others, [200-208].
Faults in others, more easily discerned than in ourselves, [187];
we should mend our own, before looking for those of others, [188];
we often possess those, that we attribute to others, [190];
Illustrations from Trench, Horace, Hogg, Molière, Mrs. Inchbald, and others, [187-191].
Flowers, not to be considered in a utilitarian light, [109];
awaken finer sensibilities, [110];
akin to the poetic faculty in man, [111];
the teaching of, lost on the dull, [112];
woman compared to, [113];
Illustrations from Tennyson, Leigh Hunt, Isaac Taylor, Shenstone, and others, [109-113].
Freedom, from righteousness, a service to sin, [60];
true, only found in God’s service, [61];
sweetened by constraint, [61];
without law, pernicious, [62];
at times a relief to give up, [63];
too much, in art and literature, hurtful, [64];
obedience nobler than, [65];
Illustrations from Gray, Wordsworth, Goethe, Mrs. Gaskell, and others, [60-66].
Freedom, the service of, [66];
from self-control, a bane, [67];
not idleness, [67];
may be enjoyed in a prison, [68];
maintained by law, [70];
Illustrations from Keble, Cowper, Johnson, Hawthorne, and others, [66-70].
Friendship, closer than relationship, [328];
want of with relatives, arises from lack of sympathy, [329];
or of knowledge of each other, [332];
Illustrations from Samuel Bailey, Thackeray, Sir Thos. Browne, Montaigne, Richardson, and others, [328-332].
Futurity, prying into brings a penalty, [76];
ignorance of, an advantage and happiness, [77];
a knowledge of, would cloud our life, [78];
hidden from us by God, [79];
could we foresee, we should suffer by anticipation, as well as reality, [80];
and lose hope, [81];
visionary previsions of, vanity, [82];
ignorance of, a source of content, [84];
and deprives death of part of its gloom, [85];
Illustrations from Cicero, Froude, De Quincey, Scott, La Bruyère, and others, [76-86].
Gray hairs, first notice of decline, [372];
various ways, first discovery of, met, [373];
a shadow of the end, [374];
come unawares, [375];
Illustrations from Coleridge, C. Bowles, Thackeray, Trollope, Tennyson, and others, [372-376].
Greatness and affluence, sometimes productive of selfishness, [15];
loss of, awakens sympathy with poor and afflicted, [16];
peculiar sin of, carelessness rather than inhumanity, [17];
this often the result of early education, [18];
sympathy with poverty need not destroy natural joy of, [18];
one object of suffering, to re-unite poverty with, [19];
of some, not a cause of poverty in others, [20];
oft performs its charity by commission, [21];
desirable for, to make personal acquaintance with misery and suffering, [22];
case of the Pretender cited, [26];
causes an isolation from the poor, [28];
shows best when engaged in works of mercy, [28];
results of want of thought in, [29-31];
benefit of proper use of, [32];
Illustrations from Shakspeare, [17];
La Bruyère, Hannah More, and others, [18-32].
Guilt, first thoughts of, abhorrent, [255];
case of Hazael, [255];
mere protestation against, no safeguard against, [256];
familiarity with, breeds apologies for, [257];
one step in, speedily induces others, unsuspected, [258];
transforms those subject to it, [259];
Illustrations from Miss Lee, Tobin, Dr. Hamilton, Southey, Sainte-Beuve, and others, [255-259].
Hearing, with the mind as well as ears, [386];
interest in theme, creates attentive, [387];
compared with seeing, [388];
difference between, and marking, [388];
some have no, for spiritual things, [389];
Illustrations: Milton, Webster, Balzac, Dumas, Shakspeare, and others, [386-389].
Human body, the, reduced to its lowest terms, [104];
Hamlet’s speculation on, [105];
as Mummy, a merchandise, [106];
turned to animal black, [106];
suggestion to use bones as a manure, [107];
used for earthworks, [108];
Illustrations from Sydney Smith, Chateaubriand, Xenophon, Dicey, and others, [101-109].
Human Knowledge, imperfection of, [224];
in things of this world, [226];
in the workings of providence, [226];
imperfect, because we cannot see the end of all, [229];
Illustrations from Locke, Mrs. Browning, Thomson, Addison, Le Maistre, and others, [224-231].
Hurry and Excitement, the characteristic of the present age, [242];
its effect on current literature, [243];
destructive of calm thought, [244];
different from haste, [245];
hinders clearness of perception, [246];
deadens capacity for simpler enjoyments, [247];
too little work as fatal as, [248];
Illustrations from Chateaubriand, Dr. Boyd, Longfellow, Sir Henry Taylor, and others, [242-249].
Joy—human, mostly overshadowed, [87];
of success, overclouded by the thought of the future, [88];
of hope, by thought of others’ present suffering, [89];
present, by the thought of death, [90];
soon fades, [91];
Illustrations from Gibbon, R. Browning, Lord Lytton, Hannay, and others, [86-91].
Judgment, Man’s, of his fellow, deprecated, [208];
wrong, because he knows not himself, [210];
nor the secrets of others, [211];
nor their motives, [212];
the habit of, presumptuous, [213];
God’s, the only just, [214];
God’s, more merciful than man’s, [215];
man’s necessarily imperfect, [216];
human, severe, [219];
of the heart, belongs only to God, [221];
should be charitable, because of our own failings, [224];
Illustrations from Shakspeare, Sir Thomas Browne, La Bruyère, Arthur Helps, O. W. Holmes, Anthony Trollope, Carlyle, and others, [208-224].
Lies, lead to further lies, case of Jacob, [290];
carry their punishment, in necessity of further lies, [291];
inextricably entangle those who use them, [293];
injurious to those who tell them, [294];
one makes a necessity for others, [295];
Illustrations from Mrs. Browning, Scott, Corneille, Cellini, Jeremy Taylor, Beaumont and Fletcher, and others, [290-296].
Light—“at evening time”—the promise of, a comfort, [313];
a deliverance from the fear of death, [314];
often clears up the end of a life of trial, [315];
disperses all darkness and difficulties, [316];
a relief from troubles in declining years, [317];
appears sometimes unexpectedly, [318];
Light—a longing of the human soul, [319];
to die in, almost a universal craving, [321];
the comfort of dying moments, [322];
Illustrations from Bunyan, O. W. Holmes, Dickens, Shirley Brooks, Mrs. Schimmelpenninck, Sophocles, Landor, and others, [313-323].
Love and Gentleness more powerful agents than force, [33];
illustrations from Plutarch, [33];
children more easily governed by, than fear, [34];
this also the case with nations, [35];
natures not amenable to, exceptional, [35];
the means usually employed by women to gain their ends, [36];
the best method for missionaries, [37];
used by Queen Elizabeth and Empress Catherine towards their people, [38];
when rulers fail with, they employ worse means, [39];
best means of eliciting truth, [40];
works even on the most depraved natures, [40];
Illustrations from Ben Jonson, Mr. Freeman, Scott, Dr. Beattie, and others, [32-41].
Lying, engenders lying, [286];
the case of St. Peter, [287];
demands a good memory, [288];
leads to hopeless entanglement, [289];
first step in all wrong doing, [289];
Illustrated by Trench, Swift, Robertson, Froude, and others, [286-290].
(See also pp. [290-296].)
Mirth, good in due season, [296];
must be recommended by higher qualities, [297];
too much is wearisome, [298];
deep and true feeling of more real value than mere, [299];
in some, always inclines to sadness, [300];
Illustrations from Tennyson, St. Evremond, Richardson, Scott, Mrs. Riddell, Hood, and others, [296-300].
Music—its power to dispel evil humours, [55];
gives ease in various nervous disorders, [56];
used by Luther to repel his visions of Satan, [57];
removed the melancholy of a king of Spain, [57];
wakes up feelings of the past, [58];
studied by the Jewish priesthood, [58];
effect of, on lunatics, [59];
soothes grief, [60];
Illustrations from Beveridge, Burton, Sir James Stephen, Schiller, and others, [55-60].
Order, Heaven’s first law, [273];
human not to be compared with Divine, [274];
obedience to, the stay of the world, [275];
to be found in all God’s handiwork, [276];
man should be the servant of, [277];
love of, improving to the mind, [278];
the basis of civil government, [279];
truth is, [280];
a love of, may subsist with a low mental standard, [281];
the happiness of heaven, [281];
Illustrations from C. H. Townshend, Hooker, Carlyle, Shaftesbury, Lowell, George Herbert, Crabbe, Patmore, Southey, [273-282].
Plans, of Man, overruled by God, [305];
for the future, vain, [306];
often bring but trouble, [308];
Illustrations from Helps, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Thackeray, Schiller, Congreve, Tasso, [305-309].
Praise, of self, unseemly, [96];
productive of ridicule, [96];
common among savages, [97];
a mark of vanity, [98];
fault of Cato and Cicero, [98];
true merit disdains, [99];
degrading, [100];
Illustrations from Plutarch, Swift, Chateaubriand, Barrow, Feltham, Carlyle, [96-100].
Prayer, without action, the mark of feebleness, [342];
with action, shows trust in God, [343];
for help, must be accompanied by self-help, [345];
only when in danger, the folly of some, [346];
of Benvenuto Cellini, [347];
Illustrations from Bentley, Kingsley, Froude, John Brown, Lord Broughton, and others, [342-347].
Prayers—at times made for what would be our own hurt, [147];
made in ignorance of true needs, [148];
the best, for those things which God sees needful for us, [149];
instances of ruin, by granted, [150];
real answer to, opposite of what we expect, [152];
granted, by seeming to be rejected, [154];
Illustrations from Plato, Juvenal, Montaigne, Madame de Sévigné, Carlyle, Walpole, Jane Taylor, De Quincey, Tennyson, [147-156].
Present despair, succeeded by comfort, [92];
anger, by joy, [92];
joy, by grief, [92];
pleasure, mixed with pain, [93];
triumph, with anxiety for the future, [94];
prosperity bears within it decay, [95];
Illustrations from Shakspeare, Byron, Mrs. Browning, Johnson, Tennyson, Pope, [91-95].
“Prophet, no man one in his own country,” [143];
few admired by their own domestics, [144];
mankind apt to underrate those they are familiar with, [145];
some exceptions to the rule, [146];
Illustrations from Montaigne, Ben Jonson, Scott, Mrs. Oliphant, Milman, [143-147].
Protestation, fervid, case of Peter’s, [165];
too much, a mark of insincerity, [166];
over, awakens suspicion, [167];
over, the refuge of base minds, [168];
not needful to truth, [168];
seldom to be trusted, [169];
fails of its purpose, [170];
Illustrations from Racine, Disraeli, Milman, Hawthorne, Wolcot, Corneille, Feltham, Fielding, B. Jonson, Alison, [165-170].
Purposes of man, often frustrated by God, [301];
confounded by the smallest accident, [302];
often end as least expected, [302];
Illustrations from Molière, Dryden, W. Irving, Burns, Wordsworth, [301-304].
Repentance and Relapse, in the case of Pharaoh, [125];
in sickness, and falling back in health, a mark of weak minds, [126];
made in fear of death, usually vanishes on removal of cause, [127];
the irreligious, prompt with in trouble, [128];
Infidels in health, repentant in sickness, [130];
at times, but want of power to sin, [131];
may in some, be measured by their health, [132];
when in danger, no repentance, [134];
Illustrations from Boileau, Lady M. W. Montagu, Scott, Le Sage, Crabbe, Montesquieu, Butler, Wolcot, Gibbon, Whately, [125-134].
Retributive Justice, in the case of Haman, [41];
that of Daniel, and his accusers, [42];
the delight of early ballads, [42];
popular history teaches, by examples, [43];
examples of, from ancient history, [44];
Illustrations from Hamlet, [47].
Retrospect of Human Life, vanity, [361];
in, swiftness of time seems infinite, [302];
in, past seems as a dream, [364];
nothing in regard to eternity, [364];
Illustrations from Seneca, Moore, Southey, Mde. de Sévigné, Cowper, and others, [361-365].
Saints considered as Strangers and Pilgrims, [192];
to them, this world but as an inn, [193];
looking to their home, lightens their earthly troubles, [194];
this world as a wilderness, [196];
their home on high, [197];
look there for their rest, [198];
this, to them, a subject of rejoicing, [200];
Illustrations: Leighton, Beveridge, Lamennais, John Foster, Chaucer, Mrs. Browning, Robertson, Keble, [192-200].
Scripture, often quoted, by the vicious, to excuse their faults, [10], [13];
by divines to support their own peculiar tenets, [11];
used in election squibs, [12];
sometimes quoted for self-deceit, [14];
misused quotations, [14];
Illustrations from Bunyan, Shakspeare, Carlyle, Dickens, and others, [10-16].
Self-control, the greatest victory, [276];
the effort of all noble minds, [377];
constant practice of, subdues the most violent tempers, [377];
strengthened by religion, [378];
should be exercised in letter writing, [379];
failure of, causes the greatest mischief, [380];
Illustrations from Marcus Antoninus, Clarendon, Macaulay, Dr. Chalmers, Scott, Gibbon, Swift, Buxton, Molière, [376-381].
Shadow a, man’s life compared to, [170];
earthly pursuits and pleasures, but, [171];
man’s corpse becomes, [173];
some waste their life in hunting, [175];
reality to be sought above, and hereafter, [181];
man’s soul a reality, [182];
Illustrations: Burke, Emerson, G. Herbert, Scott, R. Browning, Abbé Gerbert, Hawthorne, La Bruyère, De Tocqueville, Hare, Sterling, Rob. Lytton, Churchill, Carlyle, [170-182].
Silence, discreet in a fool, [70];
a virtue in wise men, [71];
when it breaks, ignorance shows itself, [72];
by keeping, fools acquire respect, [73];
often taken as a mark of wisdom, [75];
Illustrations: Sir Thomas Browne, Montaigne, Ben Jonson, C. Lamb, W. Irving, Jewsbury, Goldsmith, and others, [70-76].
Sin of One Man, consequences of felt by whole nations, cases of Achan and David, [1];
results of, felt in distant lands and by future generations, [2];
affects others by force of example, [4];
remote consequences of, even greater than present, [5];
the effects of, often show when deed forgotten by sinner, [5];
Illustrations from South, G. Eliot, Robert Browning, and others, [1-6].
Sleep, Death compared to, in Scripture, [134];
and Death as twin brothers, [135];
a counterfeit of death, [136];
Sancho Panza’s apostrophe to, [136];
a daily death, [137];
of a child, as death of a Christian, [138];
Illustrations from Homer, Warton, Byron, Sir Thomas Browne, George Herbert, Mrs. Browning, and others, [134-139].
Sleep, peaceful, destroyed by crime, [282];
exceptions to the rule, [283];
disturbed by feelings of remorse, [284];
only enjoyed by an innocent mind, [286];
Illustrations from “Macbeth,” G. W. Cooke, R. Lytton, Hawthorne, Godwin, Roscoe, Webster, [282-286].
Society, regarded as a body, [353];
each member in, has his peculiar functions, [353];
subordination in, no degradation, [354];
all service in, the same in God’s sight, [355];
contentment to be found by each member of, in doing his duty, [356];
Illustrations: F. W. Robertson, Mrs. Browning, R. Browning, Wordsworth, J. C. Hare, R. Lytton, G. Herbert, [353-357].
Solitude, in death, [389];
in a spiritual sense, not to the Christian, [390];
the bitterest pang of humanity, [390];
the choice of the animal creation, [391];
a preference for, in some natures, [391];
in a natural sense, a necessity, [393];
our Lord, the highest example of, [396];
Illustrations from Pascal, Wordsworth, Scott, Merivale, De Quincey, Crabbe, Robertson, W. Humboldt, Mrs. Browning, [389-396].
Stage, this world considered as a, [114];
man an actor on, [115];
human life in its varieties, like a play, [116];
one man plays many parts, [118];
man of the world, only first-class actor, [118];
Mary Stuart, an actress on the political, [119];
every man spectator as well as actor, [120];
players the representatives of human nature, [121];
an epitome of this world, [121];
necessity for each to act his part well, on, [123];
Illustrations from Shakspeare, Sir Thomas Browne, Cervantes, Dr. Maginn, Sainte-Beuve, Chamfort, Hazlitt, Overbury, R. Hall, [114-125].
Sympathy, as first shown by Job’s friends, [6];
often best proved by silence, [7];
moralizing no evidence of, [8];
more strongly evidenced by deeds, [8];
Illustrations from Steele, Rousseau, and others, [6-9].
To-morrow, cannot be calculated upon, [263];
hopes and fears intent on, [264];
penitence deferred till, too late, [266];
vain the pursuit of, [266];
the refuge of fools, [268];
a favourite phrase with Napoleon, [270];
a vanishing quantity, [271];
one, will come to all, [273];
Illustrations: Shakspeare, C. Rossetti, Charles Reade, Hawthorne, Prior, Macaulay, Southey, and others, [263-273].
Unconscious peril—the case of Saul, [237];
surrounds man, [238];
retrospect of, more interesting than that of positive danger, [239];
escape from, proof of superintending Providence, [240];
often nearest when least suspected, [241];
Illustrations: Cowper, De Quincey, Hawthorne, Scott, Southey, Milman, Young, [237-242].
Unrest, one of the woes denounced against the Jews, [365];
one of the greatest afflictions of man, [366];
Illustrations: Shakspeare, Landor, Crabbe, Keats, Keble, Mrs. Gaskell, Shenstone, [365-367].
Utilitarianism, of the crass, pur-blind sort, [309];
has no sympathy with the beautiful as such, [310];
or self-sacrifice, [311];
only a one-sided and degrading way of satisfying the mind, [312];
sees nothing beyond money-making, [313];
Illustrations from Hare, Carlyle, Coleridge, Buckle, De Tocqueville, Haliburton, [309-313].
Vain-glory, punishment of, in the case of Nebuchadnezzar, [337];
of Belshazzar, [338];
mostly the forerunner of a fall, [339];
founded on the favour of man, [341];
Illustrations from Prescott, Ben Jonson, Milman, Shakspeare, and others, [337-342].
Worth, unrecognized, by one’s kindred, case of David cited, [139];
Pythagoras said to have borrowed his learning, etc., [140];
familiarities of common life hinder appreciation of, [141];
one’s family most difficult to convince of, [142];
Illustrations from Euripides, Gibbon, David Hume, Swift, Horace Walpole, and others, [139-143].

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