 | William Russell - 1851 - 392 pages
...merely double and triple contrasts. Thus, " Custom is the plague of wise men, and the idol of fools." " A friend cannot be known in prosperity, and an enemy cannot be hidden in adversity." » " Emphatic phrase," is the designation of a clause in which there are several peculiarly significant... | |
 | Robert Armstrong (master of Madras coll.) - 1851 - 140 pages
...other, but have immediate reference to the subject of discourse, they are separated by semicolons; as, A friend cannot be known in prosperity ; and an enemy cannot be hidden in adversity. Listen to the affectionate counsels of your parents; treasure up their precepts; respect their riper... | |
 | Maxims - 1852 - 242 pages
...justice to his merits, and relieve his modesty and effect his business without trouble or blushing. A friend cannot be known in prosperity, and an enemy cannot be hidden in adversity. That friendship which consists only in the reciprocation of civil offices, is but a kind of traffic... | |
 | Edward Higginson - 1853 - 560 pages
...and feeling is this addition, in the latter clause, to the well-known maxim of Solon in the first. " A friend cannot be known in prosperity, and an enemy cannot be hidden in adversity. In the prosperity of a man enemies will be grieved; but in his adversity even a friend will depart."... | |
 | William Herbert - 1853 - 234 pages
...opposed to three other emphatic words, in the same sentence, the emphasis is called Treble. EXAMPLES. 1 . A friend cannot be known' in prosperity; and an enemy' cannot be hidden in adversity'. 2. The difference between a madman and a fool, is that the former' reasons justly', from, false' data... | |
 | C. Gough - 1853 - 428 pages
...conditions. He knows not how to fear who dare to die. WITHOUT a friend, the world is but a wilderness. A MAN may have a thousand intimate acquaintances, and not a friend amongst them. If you have one friend, think yourself happy. PROSPERITY gains friends, and adversity... | |
 | Ebenezer Cobham Brewer - 1854 - 444 pages
...is a friend for his own occasion, and will not abide in the day of thy trouble. — Eccles. vi. 8. A friend cannot be known in prosperity, and an enemy cannot be hidden in adversity. In the prosperity of a man enemies will be grieved, but in his adversity even a friend will depart.... | |
 | William Russell - 1854 - 398 pages
...merely double and triple contrasts. Thus, " Custom is the plague of wise men, and the idol of fools." "A friend cannot be known in prosperity, and an enemy cannot be hidden in adversity." " Emphatic phrase," is the designation of a clause in which there are several peculiarly significant... | |
 | Church of England - 1855 - 844 pages
...keepeth them against the mighty day of their punishment Give unto the good, and help not the sinner. truth have erred, saying that the resurrection is past already ; and overthrow the In the prosperity of a man enemies will be grieved: but in his adversity even a friend will depart... | |
 | Edward Higginson - 1855 - 554 pages
...and feeling is this addition, in the latter clause, to the well-known maxim of Solon in the first. " A friend cannot be known in prosperity, and an enemy cannot be hidden in adversity. In the prosperity of a man enemies will be grieved ; but in his adversity even a friend will depart."... | |
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In the prosperity of a man enemies will be grieved: but in his adversity even a friend will depart. 
