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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. "
The Works of Francis Bacon - Page 382
by Francis Bacon - 1858
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The Scottish Christian journal

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...
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The Hand Book of Illustrated Proverbs: Comprising Also a Selection 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,...
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Bacon and Shakespeare: An Inquiry Touching Players, Playhouses, and Play ...

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...
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Bacon's Essays: With Annotations

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...
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The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 22

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...
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Works: Collected and Edited by James Spedding, Robert Leslie Ellis ..., Volume 6

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...
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The Christian observer [afterw.] The Christian observer and advocate

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...
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The Monthly herald, Volume 1

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...
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Doing Good, Or, the Christian in Walks of Usefulness

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...
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The Passionate Pilgrim: Or Eros and Anteros

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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