 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1856 - 406 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 of adversity is fortitude; which in morals is the more heroical virtue. Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament ; adversity... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1856 - 562 pages
...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 of adversity is fortitude, which in morals is the more heroical virtue. Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament, adversity... | |
 | John Warner Barber - Christian life - 1857 - 274 pages
...one and the same station of firmness, and should not be subject to irregular and retrogade motions. The virtue of prosperity is temperance ; the virtue of adversity is fortitude ; which in morals is the most heroical virtue. It is a Spanish maxim, He who loseth wealth, loseth... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Richard Whately - Conduct of life - 1857 - 578 pages
...that saileth in the frail bark of the flesh through the waves of the world.6 But to speak in a mean/ the virtue of prosperity is temperance, the virtue of adversity is fortitude, which in morals is the more heroical virtue. Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament, adversity... | |
 | 1857 - 372 pages
...peace, and the effect of righteousness quietness and assurance for ever. PROSPERITY AND ADVERSITY. THE virtue of prosperity is temperance, the virtue of adversity is fortitude, which in morals is the mere heroical virtue. Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament, adversity... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1858 - 790 pages
...that saileth in the frail bark of the flesh thorough the waves of the world. But to speak in a mean.1 The virtue of Prosperity is temperance, the virtue of Adversity is fortitude ; which in morals is the more heroical virtue. Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament ; Adversity... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1858 - 780 pages
...AND CncssinA. See Bacon's beautiful " Essay on Adversity," where he says— "But to speak In a mean, the virtue of prosperity Is temperance, the virtue of adversity is fortitude, which In morals Is the more hcrolcal virtue. Prosperity Is the blesulng of the Old Testament, Adversity... | |
 | EDUCATION SOCIETY'S PRESS, CULLA - 1860 - 612 pages
...ardent. • 3. Paraphrase the following passages: — Few things are impossible to diligence ami skill. The virtue of prosperity is temperance ; the virtue of adversity is fortitude. 4. Correct the following: — (a) lie said to me that you go quick. (/j) Many horses nnd oxes was there.... | |
 | Families - 1862 - 364 pages
...too ; to be bereft is the lot of all ; to enjoy is not the lot of many. — &. Gregory of Nazianzum. 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 carri.-ih... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864 - 554 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 of adversity is fortitude, which in morals is the more heroical virtue. Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament, adversity... | |
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The virtue of Prosperity is temperance, the virtue of Adversity is fortitude; which in morals is the more heroical virtue. Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; Adversity is the blessing of the New; which carrieth the greater benediction, and... 
