 | General reader - 1827 - 246 pages
...often gives us the lightning even without the thunder, but never the thunder without the lightning. The virtue of prosperity, is temperance ; the virtue...Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament, adversity of the New, which carrieth the greater benediction, and the clearer Revelation of God's Favour. —... | |
 | Solomon Southwick - 1827 - 156 pages
...blessing of the N«w, which carrieth the greater benediction, and the clearer revelation of God's favor : yet even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's harp, you shall hear as many hearse-like airs as carols ; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more in describing... | |
 | John Locke - 1828 - 356 pages
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 | Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 832 pages
...ua>i.ii> shall be blest. Could he less e:\pert . ' han gtor. and benediction, that is, thanVs? /.-. Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament ;...greater benediction, and the clearer revelation of God'» favour. . Bacon. Ridley observes, there is not the least mention of any saint whose name corresponds... | |
 | 1849 - 1188 pages
...come, than a~ continued flow of success and self-gratification-. Lord Bacon was right in saying, " 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 you listen to David's harp, you shall hear as many hearse-like... | |
 | 1831 - 548 pages
...and not to hurt: we may shine like the sun in the temperate zone, without scorching. Adversity.—The virtue of prosperity is temperance, the virtue of adversity is fortitude, which, in morals, is the most heroical virtue. Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament, adversity is the blessing of... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1833 - 228 pages
...that saileth in the frail bark of the flesh through the waves of the world." But, to speak in a mean, the virtue of prosperity is temperance, the virtue...in morals is the more heroical virtue. Prosperity I is the blessing of the Old Testament, advjer- 1 sity is the blessing of the New, which cariieth '... | |
 | 1833 - 618 pages
...; but be of good cheer : I have overcome the world." — John xvi. 33. . "PROSPERITY," says Bacon, "is the blessing of the Old Testament ; adversity is the blessing of the New ;" and a greater authority than Bacon tells us, " that whom the Lord loveth he chastiseth." These are... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1834 - 458 pages
...others to be read but cursorily, and some few to be read wholly un<l with diligence and attention. virtue of adversity is fortitude, which in morals...Testament, if you listen to David's harp, you shall hear as many hearse-like airs as carols; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more in describing... | |
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Yet even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's harp, you shall hear as many hearse-like airs as carols; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon. 
