| 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 is the blessing of... | |
| 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 much; he who loseth a friend,... | |
| William Henry Smith - Catholics - 1857 - 190 pages
...adversity is 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, you will hear as many hearse-like airs as carols ; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more... | |
| Francis Bacon, Richard Whately - Conduct of life - 1857 - 578 pages
...Pascal — and we cannot see that the experiment -was attended in his case with any better effects.' ' Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament ; Adversity is the blessing of the New.' The distinguishing characteristic of the Old Covenant, of the Mosaic Law, was that it was enforced... | |
| American essays - 1868 - 796 pages
...reformed and fashionable English. We will give a specimen. Bacon, in his Essay on Adversity, says : " Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament, adversity is the blessing of the New Yet even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's harp, you shall hear as many hearse-like airs... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1858 - 790 pages
...lie went to unbind Prometheus (by whom human nature is represented), sailed the length of the yrrat ocean in an earthen pot or pitcher ; lively describing...Testament, if you listen to David's harp, you shall hear аз many hearse-like airs as carols ; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more in describing... | |
| 1858 - 878 pages
...forbear reproducing it, however familiar, for our readers' gratification : — " Prosperity," he says, " is the blessing of the Old Testament, adversity is...and the clearer revelation of God's favour. Yet even m the Old Testament, if you listen to David's harp, you shall hear as many hearse-like airs as carols... | |
| 1858 - 918 pages
...were they as lean as those of Pharaoh ; but for their own souls they have none."— Ibid. ADVERSITY. " Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament :...greater benediction, and the clearer revelation of God's favor. Yet, even in the Old Testament, if 30 SHOET PAPERS. you listen to David's harp, yon shall hear... | |
| Robert Steel (D.D.) - Christian biography - 1858 - 484 pages
...chief blessing of the New Testament religion. Lord Bacon somewhere remarks, favouring this idea, that " Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament, adversity...which carrieth the greater benediction and the clearer evidence of God's favour." It cannot be denied that very many of God's children have been chosen in... | |
| Francis Turner Palgrave - Love - 1858 - 274 pages
...things incompatible. Lord Bacon, fallen from his honours, wrote indeed those exquisite phrases :—' Prosperity is the blessing of the Old ' Testament;...' carrieth the greater benediction and the clearer evidence ' of God's favour. We see in needle-works and em' broideries, it is more pleasing to have... | |
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