| Francis Bacon - English essays - 1812 - 348 pages
...so end they unfortunate. Of IT was an high speech of Seneca, (after the manner of the Stoics,) that the good things which belong to prosperity are to be wished, but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired: " Bona rertim secundarum optabilia, adversarurn mirabilia."... | |
| 1813 - 594 pages
...rendered independent of France for supplies of so important an article. COMPARISON. Seneca observes, that the good things which belong to prosperity are to be wished, but the good things belonging to adversity are to be admired; but prosperity is not without many tt-nrs, yod. adversity... | |
| Proverbs - 1814 - 568 pages
...It was an observation of Seneca, that " bona rerum secundarum sunt optabilia, adversarum mirabilia," the good things which belong to prosperity, are to be wished ; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired. Queen Catherine, who was repudiated by Henry the Eighth,... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1815 - 310 pages
...unfortunate. OF ADVERSITY. IT was an high speech of Seneca, (after the manner of the Stoics), that the good things which belong to prosperity are to be wished, but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired : " Bona rerum secundarum " optabilia, adversarum mirabilia."... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1815 - 292 pages
...(after the manner of the Stoics,) that the good things which belong to prosperity, are to be wish'd ; but the good things which belong to adversity, are to be admired. 46. He that cannot see well, let him go softly. 47. If a man be thought secret, it inviteth discovery... | |
| Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1818 - 310 pages
...end they unfortunate. İf 1.T was a high speech of Seneca, (after the manner of the Stoics) " that the good things which belong to Prosperity are to be wished, but the good things that belong to Adversity are to be admired :" " Bona rerum secundarum optabilia, adversarum mirabilia."... | |
| Francis Bacon - Conduct of life - 1818 - 312 pages
...mischievous, so end they unfortunate. IT was a high speech of Seneca, (after the manner of the Stoics) " that the good things which belong to Prosperity are to be wished, but the good things that belong to Adversity are to be admired :" " Bona rerum secundarum optabilia, adversarum mirabilia."... | |
| Francis Bacon - Philosophy - 1819 - 580 pages
...unfortunate. V. OF ADVERSITY. IT was an high speech of Seneca, after the manner of the Stoics, that the good things which belong to prosperity are to be wished, but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired : Bona rerum tecundarum optabilia, adversarum mirabilla.... | |
| Francis Bacon - English essays - 1820 - 548 pages
...unfortunate. V. OF ADVERSITY. IT was a high speech of Seneca (after the manner of the Stoics), that the good things which belong to prosperity are to be wished, but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired: "Bona rerum secundarum optabilia, adversarum mirabilia."... | |
| British prose literature - 1821 - 416 pages
...unfortunate. V. OF ADVERSITY. IT was a high speech of Seneca (after the manner of the Stoics) , that the good things which belong to prosperity are to be wished, but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired : " Bona rerum secundarmn optabilia, adversarum mirabilia."... | |
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