 | Francis Bacon - 1819 - 580 pages
...the life of witches; who as they are mischievous, so end they unfortunate. V. OF ADVERSITY. IT was an high speech of Seneca, after the manner of the Stoics,...belong to adversity are to be admired : Bona rerum tecundarum optabilia, adversarum mirabilla. Certainly if miracles be the command over nature, they... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 602 pages
...persons live and die like witches : their life is mischievous, and their end is unfortunate. 9. It was an high speech of Seneca, after the manner of the Stoics,...prosperity, are to be wished ; but the good things which belong to adversity, are to be admired. 10. .He that cannot see well, let him go softly. 11.... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1820 - 548 pages
...the life of witches; who, as they are mischievous, so end they unfortunate. V. OF ADVERSITY. IT was a high speech of Seneca (after the manner of the Stoics),...over nature, they appear most in adversity. It is yet a higher speech of his than the other (much too high for a heathen), "It is true greatness to have... | |
 | 1821 - 416 pages
...the life of witches ; who, as they are mischievous, so end they unfortunate. V. OF ADVERSITY. IT was a high speech of Seneca (after the manner of the Stoics)...belong to adversity are to be admired : " Bona rerum secundarmn optabilia, adversarum mirabilia." Certainly, if miracles be the command over nature, they... | |
 | John Timbs - 1823 - 330 pages
...incessant perplexities of the world would work on our sensibilities with redoubled effect. Seneca says that " the good things which belong to prosperity...things that belong to adversity are to be admired ;" and, certainly no maxim was ever more fully verified in the scenes and events of passing life. We... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1824 - 598 pages
...and their end is unfortunate. 7. He that studieth revenge, keepeth his own wounds green. 9. It was a high speech of Seneca, after the manner of the Stoics,...prosperity, are to be wished; but the good things which belong to adversity, are to be admired. 11. If a man be thought secret, it inviteth discovery... | |
 | George Walker - 1825 - 668 pages
...foretold, that when Christ cometh, " he shall not find faith upon the earth." V. OP ADVERSITY. It was an high speech of Seneca, after the manner of the Stoics,...things that belong to adversity are to be admired: Bonn rerum secundarum optabilia, adversarum mirabilia. Certainly if miracles be the command over nature,... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1825 - 550 pages
...witches : their life is mischievous, and their end is unfortunate, * Baconiana, page 65. 9. It was an high speech of. Seneca, after the manner of the Stoics,...prosperity are to be wished ; but the good things which belong to adversity are to be admired. 10. He that cannot see well, let him go softly. 11. If... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 538 pages
...the life of witches ; who, as they are mischievous, so end they unfortunate. V. OF ADVERSITY. IT was a high speech of Seneca (after the manner of the Stoics), that the good things which be-| long to prosperity are to be wished, but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired... | |
 | 1882 - 224 pages
...thrown so bright aad cheering a lustre over that truth, usually so dark, even in its grandeur — " The good things which belong to prosperity are to...things that belong to adversity are to be admired." For the Rural Repository. THE CLOUD AND THE MOUNTAIN. It was evening and the burning sun was going... | |
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Stoics), that the good things which belong to prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired. Bona rerum secundarum optabilia; adversarum mirabilia. Certainly if miracles be the command over nature, they appear... 
