 Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament, adversity is the blessing of the New, which carrieth the greater benediction, and the clearer revelation of God's favour. Yet even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's harp, you shall hear as...  Essays, Moral, Economical, and Political ... - Pàgina 24per Francis Bacon - 1822 - 208 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | J. C. - 1806 - 156 pàgines
...faint idea how we appropriated the long summer day, and the winter's contracted one. THE SAGE EDNOR. " Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes...; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. The good things which belong to prosperity are to be wished ; but the good things which belong to adversity... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1818 - 312 pàgines
...favour. Yet even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's harp, you shall hear as many hearse-like airs, as -carols. And the pencil of the Holy Ghost...afflictions of Job, than the felicities of Solomon. OF SIMULATION AND DISSIMULATION. 17 Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes ; and Adversity... | |
 | Thomas Bowdler - 1824 - 342 pàgines
...favor. Yet even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's harp, you shall hear as many hearse-like airs as carols. And the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath...afflictions of Job, than the felicities of Solomon.'" * The writer of this Memoir is tempted to add some extracts from an Imitation of the Thirteenth Satire... | |
 | Thomas Bowdler - 1824 - 336 pàgines
...favor. Yet even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's harp, you shall hear as many hearse-like airs as carols. And the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath...afflictions of Job, than the felicities of Solomon.' " * The writer of this Memoir is tempted to add some extracts from an Imitation of the Thirteenth Satire... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 538 pàgines
...favour. Yet even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's harp, you shall hear as many hearse-like airs as carols ; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost...adversity is not without comforts and hopes. We see in needle works and embroideries, it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad and solemn ground,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 524 pàgines
...favour. Yet even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's harp, you shall hear as many hearse-like airs as carols; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath...adversity is not without comforts and hopes. We see in needle works and embroideries, it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad and solemn ground,... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1825 - 550 pàgines
...favour. Yet even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's harp, you shall hear as many hearse-like airs as carols ; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost...adversity is not without comforts and hopes. We see in needle works and embroideries, it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad and solemn ground,... | |
 | Thomas Bowdler - 1825 - 364 pàgines
...favor. Yet even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's harp, you shall hear as many hearse-like airs as carols. And the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath...afflictions of Job, than the felicities of Solomon.' " * The writer of this Memoir is tempted to add some extracts from an Imitation of the Thirteenth Satire... | |
 | Solomon Southwick - 1827 - 156 pàgines
...: yet even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's harp, you shall hear as many hearse-like airs as carols ; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost...afflictions of Job, than the felicities of Solomon. NOTE IT. The following Proclamation, was issued by the Governor, agreeably to its date, for the discovery... | |
 | 1827 - 316 pàgines
...prevent our comprehending, nothing but wilful ertor can hinder us from embracing". — IHiss Mare. "Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes...; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. Virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are crushed. The virtue of prosperity is temperance,... | |
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