Scripture texts illustrated by general literatureJacox, Francis
Religion
Scripture texts illustrated by general literature
Jacox, Francis
Homiletical illustrations
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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