 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - 602 pàgines
...employment thereof. 1 This expression is given in the original in Latin. 390 8IB FRANCIS BACON. [LECr. XVH. The virtue of prosperity is temperance ; the virtue of adversity is fortitude. Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament ; adversity is the blessing of the New, which carrieth... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - 594 pàgines
...employment thereof. i This expression is given in the original in Latin. PROSPERITY AND ADVERSITY. The virtue of prosperity is temperance ; the virtue of adversity is fortitude. Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament ; adversity is the blessing of the New, which carrieth... | |
 | 1852 - 780 pàgines
...and softer. The following passage, first published in 1635, will show the extent of the change : " end of them all. She was great arid respected before, the Saxon had evidences of God's favour. Yet, even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's harp you shall... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1852 - 394 pàgines
...the more Heroical Virtue. Profperity is the Bleffing of the Old Teftament ; Adverfity is the Bleffing of the New ; which carrieth the greater Benediction,...clearer Revelation of God's Favour. Yet, even in the old Teftament, if you liften to David's Harp, you fhall hear as many hearfe-like Airs, as Carols : And... | |
 | 1852 - 584 pàgines
...pleasures which will bite to-morrow.' Why should a man be in love with his fetters, though of gold ? "The virtue of prosperity is temperance; the virtue of adversity is fortitude. " It is a lofty saying, ' The advantages of prosperity are to be wished ; but the advantages of adversity... | |
 | Henry Reed - 1855 - 416 pàgines
...Bacon, in one of those essays in which he has so sententiously compacted his deep thoughts, said, " Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament ;...greater benediction and the clearer revelation of Grod's favour. Yet even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's harp, you shall hear as many... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1856 - 562 pàgines
...that saileth in the frail bark of the flesh through the waves of the world.' But to speak in a mean,7 the virtue of prosperity is temperance, the virtue...greater benediction, and the clearer revelation of God's 1 Sen. Ad Lucil. 66. ' Sen. Ad Lucil. 53. 3 Poesy. Poetry — ' Musick and Poesy To quicken you.' —... | |
 | Cortlandt Van Rensselaer - 1856 - 708 pàgines
...every day for the cultivation of our minds and despatch of business. liats. PROSPERITY AND ADVERSITY. PROSPERITY is the blessing of the Old Testament ;...in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's harp yon shall hear as many hearse-like airs as carols ; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1856 - 406 pàgines
...Adversity, on which he had deeply reflected, before the edition of 1625, when it first appeared, he says : " The virtue of prosperity is temperance; the virtue...adversity is the blessing of the New, which carrieth the great benediction, and the clearer revelation of God's favor. Yet, even in the Old Testament, if you... | |
 | 1857 - 770 pàgines
...beholden unto them ; for he doth most for them, and they do ordinarily least for him." And again, — •'Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament...greater benediction and the clearer revelation of God's power." Cowper's parallel between the French infidel philosopher and the religious English peasant,... | |
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Yet, even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's harp, you shall hear as many hearselike airs as carols; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon. 
