The outlook appeared indeed far darker to Jeremiah than it seemed more than a century before to Isaiah in the evil days of Jotham and Ahaz, "when the whole head was sick and the whole heart faint" (Isa.
The present outlook was hopeless, but in the enlarged horizon of time as well as space the thoughts of some of the most spiritual minds in Judaism were directed to the transcendent and ultimate.
It had an effect of standing with contented serenity in its long outlook over the pine-woods, the beech-woods, the rippled wave of low hill and valley, lapping one upon the other to the splendid line of the horizon.
It would be a rather black outlook for him, wouldn't it, if the Government were to go out?
Mrs. Merrick allowed the pony to pause here, and glanced round at the wide distances below with something more of distaste for the supremacy of her outlook than admiration for its beauty.
Her works belong to a high order of imaginative fiction based on the essential realities, and is suffused with the humour of clear outlook which sees life truly and as a whole.
La Bruyere, with a broader outlook upon humanity, had much of the same fine analysis, with less conciseness and elegance of expression.
Then Lincoln's closest counselors approached his ears with heavy words of hopelessness about the outlook in the Northern States confessedly most pivotal.
In the presence of such a standard, and before the outlook of such a hope Lincoln fashions his theodicy.
The issue towards which they aimed was the outlook of his lone heart's hope.
His moral outlook was now unobstructed, open every way.
She would have to rearrange her outlook by her experience if she hoped to find happiness.
The outlook was so gloomy that almost universal ruin seemed impending.
Yet, despite the lessened yield of cane, the sugar-growers do not complain of bad times, nor is their outlook discouraging.
Hence it is that the mining outlook is encouraging, and that in the opinion of scientific experts the industry in Queensland has scarcely yet passed the infantile stage.
The seasons were good, the outlook was regarded as brilliant, and a general air of confidence reigned.
It is most difficult to realize the revolution involved in the whole outlook on life to men who have been looked upon as little more than serfs, without any prospect of influence in their country.
He informed me that his ideals and outlook on life were now totally changed.
It took them such hard work in those days to get churches and homes for themselves that they got a bias that way, and the outlook to the 'other sheep' may not have been so wide as that of our forefathers.
In some respects these two brilliant women were much akin, though they were poles asunder in regard to their outlook on spiritual verities.
She was on the outlook for alligators, but only saw crowds of crabs on the rotten tree-stumps and black mud fighting as fiercely as the Okoyong people.
It had the widest outlook of any spot she had seen; she seemed to be on the very roof of the world.
She was a woman of affairs, with a wide and catholic outlook upon humanity, and yet she was a shy solitary walking alone in puritan simplicity and childlike faith.
Now and again, however, a strain of sadness is perceptible in her letters, perhaps due to the state of her health and her isolation, as well as the outlook abroad, which was then unrestful.
Her outlook must be broad, and her patience unfailing.
Her whole outlookmay be changed by such contact; and with her outlook, her teaching; and with her teaching, her influence.
The untrained girl who naturally falls into the service group has a rather poor outlook for congenial and successful work as conditions exist.
After this we skirted a thicket of arbutus, and came upon the long volcanic ridge, with divinest outlookover Procida and Miseno toward Vesuvius.
This gives superiority in qualities of colour, variety of tone, and luminous effect to the sea, compensating in some measure for the lack of those associations which render the outlook over a wide extent of populated land so thrilling.
His life, lying on the river bank through long summer afternoons or sitting perfectly still for endless hours in a boat, had bred in him a dreamy detached outlook on life.
The first 12 books move westward and have their outlook in that direction, the last 12 books have their outlookeastward toward Egypt, Phoenicia, and the Oriental borderland.
Such is the outlook upon the Future given by Circe, in the way of warning, whereby the warned know what is coming.
Such is the last appearance of Helen to Telemachus, giving strong encouragement, suggesting in her two acts a new outlook for the youth both upon Family and State.
Moreover, she is still prophetic, she still has the outlookupon the Beyond, being spirit in the senses.
He is to proceed at once to Pylos and to Sparta "to learn of his father" with the finaloutlook toward the destruction of the suitors.
That was the outlook so vaunted by Planus--a melancholy outlook if ever there were one.
What is there that one finds in it which marks a change in temperament and outlook from the Renaissance, and the time which immediately followed it?
The change affected all literature and particularly the drama, which because it appeals to what all men have in common, commonly reflects soonest a change in the outlook or spirits of a people.
Brinkworth Street, its outlook and its ideals, was a cosmos he had yet to traverse and explore.
Were it not so, how soon should we tire of any single outlook or the neighbourhood of any one centre!
On the contrary, when you descend the cliff, the uninteresting outlook is at your back and the fine view in front all the way.
One is essentially a view among mountains, the other an outlook over the wide earth.
However unpromising the outlook might be I always managed to find something for him.
Islam has remained a national religion, which has never attained the outlook upon the whole of humanity, so characteristic of the prophets of Israel.
With this broad outlook upon life, Judaism lays claim, not to perfection, but to perfectibility; it has supreme capacity for growing toward the highest ideals of mankind, as beheld by the prophets in their Messianic visions.
If in gloomy periods the outlookbecame dark, still the hope for the fulfillment of this mission was never entirely lost.
Job, too, in his affliction longed for death as release from all earthly pain and sorrow, but not to bring him a state of rest and peace like the Nirvana of the Indian beggar-monk, or an outlook into a better world to come.
The outlook for the Jewish people, however, became darker and darker through its struggle with Rome.
At noon on January 13 theoutlook was more hopeless than ever.
In the morning watch of December 31, the wind and sea increased and the outlook was very distressing, but at 6 A.
Could anyone wonder that we determined to push on, be the outlook ever so comfortless?
The shouts and songs of men could be heard for miles, and the outlook on life of every member of the expedition seemed suddenly to have changed.
Page 115] It was perhaps fortunate that their discovery about the oil was not delayed any longer, but nevertheless it came at a time when the outlook was dreary and dispiriting enough without additional discomforts.
Men who owned large herds were in all cases enthusiastic over the present outlook of the business, but their figures were a trifle less booming than those of Gov.
It is true that some pious souls took a disconsolate view of the outlook and, renouncing the world's joys, gave themselves up to ascetic lives of penitence.
Well, we might say that they began their career with all the religious enthusiasm of the Pharisees, they closed it with the political outlook of the Sadducees.
These morsels of homely philosophy and casual reflections on human experience best reveal, too, their outlook on the world and on life.
Alas, the outlook for either the spiritual or the temporal realization seemed farther removed than ever.
In spite of dreadful devastation and drearyoutlook the faith and spirit of the majority remained unbroken.
A furlong or more down the hillside a little hillock stood up amid a few wind-twisted thorns, proffering rare vantage for outlook over wood and dale.
Is not that little rounded hill, still touched with the free light of heaven, still commanding a clear outlook over the city to the Mount of Olives--is not that the true Golgotha, where Christ was lifted up?
