 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1834 - 458 pages
...others to be read but cursorily, and some few to be read wholly un<l with diligence and attention. virtue of adversity is fortitude, which in morals...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... | |
 | Watson Adams - Conduct of life - 1834 - 290 pages
...much ; he who loseth a friend, loseth more ; but he who loseth his spirits, loseth all. The virtue of prosperity, is temperance ; 'the virtue of adversity, is fortitude ; which in morals is the most heroic virtue. Prosperity is the blessing of the old Testament, adversity is the blessing of the... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1834 - 376 pages
...beatitudes of the New, which are both in reality greater, and carry a clearer revelation of the divine favour. Yet, even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's harp, you will find more lamentable airs than triumphant ones." Lord Bacon, " But to speak in a mean, the virtue... | |
 | Christian life - 1835 - 334 pages
...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...Testament : adversity is the blessing of the New, which carricth the greater benediction and the clearer revelation of God's favour. Yet even in the Old Testament,... | |
 | 1837 - 536 pages
..." Some," says St. Paul, "shall be saved, yet so as by fire;" and " prosperity," says Lord Bacon, " is the blessing of the Old Testament, adversity is...benediction, and the clearer revelation of God's favour." The check we have received may be of more ultimate benefit to us than years of unalloyed, intoxicating... | |
 | Serial publications - 1837 - 552 pages
..." Some," says St. Paul, "shall be saved, yet so as by fire;" and " prosperity," says Lord Bacon, " is the blessing of the Old Testament, adversity is...benediction, and the clearer revelation of God's favour." The check we have received may be of more ultimate benefit to us than years of unalloyed, intoxicating... | |
 | 1837 - 608 pages
...adversity is the blessing of the New, which carried the ' greater benediction and the clearer evidence of God's 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 bath-laboured more in describing the afflictions... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1838 - 894 pages
...in the frail bark of the flesh through the waves of the world. But to speakin a mean : the virtue of prosperity is temperance ; the virtue of adversity...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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1838 - 898 pages
...to speak in a mean : the virtue of prosperity is temperance ; the virtue of adversity is fortitude j which in morals is the more heroical virtue. Prosperity...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... | |
 | 1838 - 822 pages
...and softer. The following passage, first published in 1625, will show the extent of the chanje: — 'Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament;...which carrieth the greater benediction and the clearer evidence of God's favor. Yet, even in the Old Testament, if you laten to David's harp you shall hear... | |
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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... 
