Word: job
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...great acts and underlying principles of daily life. Whitman, says Burroughs, is superior to Emerson, in that the latter's intellect starves out his sympathies and emotions. Again, Whitman rises above the sphere of literary culture and conventional form which confines Tennyson and Browning. He belongs rather with Homer, Job, and Isaiah, for his poetry is more than literature; it is humanity itself...
...series of Sunday afternoon Lectures and Conferences on Ethics and Religion will be given during the winter at 168 Brattle street. The list of speakers includes a number of Asiatic thinkers. Beside these, Professor Josiah Royce, Ph. D., will speak on the "Problem of Job," Nov. 22; the Rev. Charles Carroll Everett, D. D., Dean of the Divinity Faculty, will discuss the relations of "Reason and Instinct," on Dec. 20; and Professor Crawford Toy, LL. D., will speak on the subject, "Ethies of the New Testament," on March...
Course No. 4.- "The Book of Job." Tuesday, 7 p. m. Mr. R. M. Aldeu...
...Book of Job." Tuesday, 7 p. m. Mr. R. M. Alden...
...sound; for although there is a wealth of allusions, there is little in the elasical literature of antiquity that bears importantly upon the subject. The Hebrew Scriptures abound in these allusiouns. Abraham paid the children of Heth four hundred shekels of silver of the cave of Machpelah. Job says, "Surely there is a vein for silver; the earth hath dust of gold." In the book of Daniel there is an account of the great image which Nebuchadnezzar set up on the plains of Dura, three score cubits in height and six cubits in breadth. Then, too, there is the picture...