 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 laboured more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.  Bacon's essays, with annotations by R. Whately - Page 70by Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1864Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Biography - 1844 - 336 pages
...Certainly, in taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy ; but in passing it over he is superior." " The virtue of prosperity is temperance ; the virtue of adversity is fortitude." " It is a strange desire to seek power, and lose liberty ; or to seek power over others, and to lose... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Indians - 1844 - 680 pages
...Certainly, in taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy ; but in passing it over he is superior." " The virtue of prosperity is temperance ; the virtue of adversity is fortitude." " It is a strange desire to seek power, and lose liberty ; or to seek power over others, and to lose... | |
 | American literature - 1846 - 302 pages
...that saileth in the frail bark of the flesh through the waves of the world. But to speak in a mean. The virtue of Prosperity is Temperance; the virtue...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 a> many hearse-like... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1846 - 782 pages
...richer and softer. The following passage, fi^t published in 1625, will show the extent of the change: ilton, it is said, inherited what his predecessors...enlightened age; he received a finished education ; and evidences of God's favour. Vet, even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's harp you shall... | |
 | General principles - 1847 - 132 pages
...security of a God." * THE is definite in meaning, and applies equally to the singular and plural, as, " The virtue of prosperity is temperance, the virtue...greater benediction, and the clearer revelation of God's favour."* " If he * Bacon's Essays. be compassionate towards the afflictions of others, it shews that... | |
 | Philosophy - 1847 - 380 pages
...security of a God."* THE is definite in meaning, and applies equally to the singular and plural, as, " The virtue of prosperity is temperance, the virtue...greater benediction, and the clearer revelation of God's favor."* " If he be compassionate towards the afflictions of others, it shows that his heart is like... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1847 - 712 pages
...tumult make them not audible all things dissolve Into anarchy and confusion. [Prosperity and Adversity.] eas Of troublous world, nor lost in slothful ease : Pleae'd and full blest he Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament ; adversity is the blessing of the New, which carrieth... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1848 - 594 pages
...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 fortitude, which in morals is the more heroicaJ virtue. Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament, adversity is the blessing of the... | |
 | Congregational union of England and Wales - 1848 - 684 pages
...henceforth Лл-1Ыа. IDE Two BLESSINGS. — Prosperity is ™ blearing of the Old Testament; M'eraUy ij the blessing of the New, which carrieth the greater benediction and the clearer evidence of God's favour. Yet, even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's harp, yon will hear... | |
 | John Locke - Intellect - 1849 - 372 pages
...that saileth in the frail bark of the flesh through the waves of the world." But, to speak in a mean, the virtue of prosperity is temperance, the virtue...the blessing of the Old Testament, adversity is the blessmg of the New, which carrieth the greater benediction, and the clearer revelation of God's favour.... | |
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