 | Francis Turner Palgrave - 1858 - 294 страници
...things incompatible. Lord JBacon, 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... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - 1858 - 274 страници
...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... | |
 | Robert Steel (D.D.) - 1858 - 484 страници
...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... | |
 | Henry Reed - 1858 - 424 страници
...sententiously compacted his deep thoughts, said, " Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament j adversity is the blessing of the New, which carrieth...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 many... | |
 | 1858 - 878 страници
...forbear reproducing it, however familiar, for our readers' gratification :— " Prosperity," he says, " is the blessing of the Old Testament, adversity is the blessing of the New, which carrietn the greater benediction, and the clearer revelation of God's favour. Yet even in the Old Testament,... | |
 | 1858 - 798 страници
...virtue.' "And William felt much ashamed, remembering in part his dream. " 'Yes,' said Dame Klizabeth, 'prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament, adversity is the blessing of the New Г •• ' Right, Bess, right ! ami it carrieth the greater benediction and the dearer revelation... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1858 - 594 страници
...ADVERSITY. The virtue of prosperity is temperance ; the virtue of adversity is fortitude. Pro perity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the Nei which carrieth the greater benedictioryind the clearer revelation of God's favou Yet even in the... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1858 - 780 страници
...beautiful " Essay on Adversity," where he says— "But to speak in R mean, the virtue of prosperity la temperance, the virtue of adversity Is fortitude, which in morals Is the more herolcal virtue. Prosperity la the blessing of thr Old Ti-wtantvnt, Adversity is the bleg*lng of the... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1859 - 176 страници
...saileth in the frail bark of the flesh thorough the waves of the world. 7 But to speak in a mean: the virtue of prosperity is temperance; the virtue of...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 many... | |
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Bacon, in his Essay on Adversity, 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 is the blessing of the New,... 
